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Intel unveils new Xeon chip with integrated FPGA, touts 20x performance boost
- By Sebastian Anthony on June 19, 2014 at 1:19 pm
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Late yesterday, Intel quietly announced one of the biggest ever changes to its chip lineup: It will soon offer a new type of Xeon CPU with an integrated FPGA. This new Xeon+FPGA chip will fit in the standard E5 LGA2011 socket, but the integrated FPGA will allow each chip to be customized to specific workloads. This move is almost certainly intended to make Intel-x86 a better all-round platform for a wider variety of workloads in enterprise and data center settings, and to dissuade customers from switching to GPGPU accelerators from the likes of Nvidia.
The Xeon+FPGA also raises the question of whether Intel would ever consider integrating an FPGA into its consumer Core line of chips — it's exceedingly unlikely, but it it's hard to deny how awesome it would be if next-gen games and apps had access to an FPGA to speed up core processes. But more on that at the end of the story.
What is an FPGA?
First things first, let's talk field-programmable gate arrays (FPGA). As the name implies, an FPGA is essentially a blank chip that can be repeatedly reprogrammed after manufacturing. With very few exceptions, every chip inside your computer is hard-coded (at the time of manufacturing) to perform just one set of functions. Your CPU can only do exactly what Intel or AMD designed it to do. You can't take your CPU and turn it into a GPU. But you can take an FPGA, program it to perform one set of functions (say, graphics), and then reprogram it to handle another type of workload (say, sorting through databases).
The main advantage of an FPGA, other than its customizability, is that it has monstrously high performance. In much the same way that an ASIC is by far the fastest and most efficient way of processing a specific workload (and thus why they're used for Bitcoin farming), an FPGA is also very fast and efficient. They're not quite as fast or efficient as ASICs, but what you lose in speed you gain in reprogrammability (again, ASICs are set in stone at manufacturing time).
Why is Intel pairing its Xeon CPU with an FPGA?
Over the last few years, as more and more processing has moved to the cloud, Intel's dominance of the server market has been attacked on a few fronts. Xeon chips are good all-round chips — but there are plenty of cases where another, more-workload-specific chip might make sense. This is why people are starting to look at cheaper, low-power chips for web servers (which don't need expensive, hot Xeon chips), and GPGPU accelerators for highly parallel processing (as in supercomputers). For these more specific workloads, Intel is pitching Atom for lightweight stuff, the 50-core Xeon Phi for supercomputers, and now the Xeon+FPGA (it doesn't seem to have an official name yet).
Intel also notes that, in the last year alone, it has delivered "15 custom products" for big customers like Facebook and Ebay (probably Xeons with more/less cache, more/less cores, etc.) — and it will do over 30 custom designs this year.
What's the purpose of this new Xeon+FPGA product? In the words of Intel: "The FPGA provides our customers a programmable, high performance coherent acceleration capability to turbo-charge their critical algorithms." Intel estimates that the Xeon+FPGA will see massive performance boosts in the 20x range (for code executed on the FPGA instead of a conventional x86 CPU — but obviously there will be big overall speedups as bottlenecks are removed. The other advantage is that workloads change — so if your critical algorithms change, or your whole company pivots, the FPGA can be repurposed without having to buy lots of new hardware.
As far as tech specs go, we can sadly only guess at this point. The FPGA is probably manufactured by Altera, which Intel has a close working relationship (it was one of the first companies that was allowed to use Intel's closely guarded chip fabs). FPGAs in general are very bulky (that's the trade-off of using programmable gates), and there isn't a whole lot of spare space on an LGA2011 Xeon E5 chip package, so we're probably not looking at a very large FPGA. Though if the FPGA can leverage the Xeon's cache, and perhaps some other low-level resources, some space-saving efficiencies might be realized. (Intel says there's a "low-latency coherent interface" between the Xeon and the FPGA, but that's about it.)
There's no word on pricing or availability — but obviously it won't be cheap (the top Xeons already cost thousands of dollars). Intel is hoping that the Xeon+FPGA package is enticing enough to convince enterprises to stick with x86, rather than moving over to a competing architecture (such as Nvidia's Tesla GPGPUs). It is probably a lot easier to rewrite a small segment of critical code to run on an FPGA than to rewrite the entire application in OpenCL.
Finally, a fun thought experiment: If this little Xeon+FPGA experiment is a success, might we one day see a Core+FPGA chip? Or a GPU+FPGA setup? Imagine if you could load a core part of a game engine into the FPGA; the physics engine perhaps, or the enemy AI. Or a core part of your PC's operating system. That could be very cool indeed.
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FPGA advantages over DSP are more marketing than reality…
Most benchmarks don't give such excellent results on FPGA devices. After all.. FPGA devices actually are nothing more than old architecture DSP units… fixed, hard-wired, functionality limited units that already existed before the DSP era began.
Nowadays manufacturers are selling FPGA as the Second Coming Of Jesus .. but the marketing hype is too much and unjustified.
FPGA devices are better than DSP on some embedded systems and pretty limited cases.. it's nothing magic and nothing revolutionary.
Indeed in some cases it's better using FPGA over DSP for lower power consumptions and lower production costs ..but it's not true that all of a sudden DSP now are obsolete and FPGA so much better.
So adding FPGA devices directly inside Xeon CPUs might be useful for some algorithms but all the DSP units like the SSE ones and AES-NI already there can already do wonders with properly coded algorithms.
http://www.mrseb.co.uk/ Sebastian Anthony
Huh? Who's talking about DSPs?
And FPGAs aren't hard-wired — that's the whole point?
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So if FPGAs are so much faster and flexible how come there aren't desktop chips designed entirely with this stuff? You said it was a bit of a space hog, but otherwise why not? Too power hungry and could fry eggs? Cost prohibitive for the general public?
http://www.mrseb.co.uk/ Sebastian Anthony
They're not for general-purpose computing (which is what you're doing on a desktop PC). That's what a CPU is for. There are hundreds of millions of logic gates in a modern CPU. There might only be a few thousand in an FPGA.
+ yes, they're large, and power hungry, and all the other usual stuff.
You could do general desktop computing on an FPGA — but if you have a firm workload that doesn't change, why use an FPGA? Much better to use a conventional CPU.
xcore fan
this change of heart as regards FPGA comes as a response to the the open IBM initative where they already stated they where going to use PPCFPGA co-processors….
still its fun that intel and ibm have finally gone the amiga+FPGA route :)
see http://www.majsta.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=69 as one example
http://www.mrseb.co.uk/ Sebastian Anthony
Yep, true, I was thinking about the OpenPower and CAPI interface, and how it'll bring FPGAs closer to the CPU.
The main thing I'm wondering about is Intel's timeline. This could be _years_ away. They're not saying anything about actual implementation/timeline/etc. I don't think it'll be soon.
xcore fan
i think for intel to have any real impact in the short/medium term they would be wise to put together a cheap generic core/octa soc that included the FPGA, their Optical PCI Express* (OPCIe*), and the latest MXC Optical Connector: Scalable to 1.6 Tbps with ClearCurve* LX fiber with their FLOSS teams writiing the code ASAP and get that in to the open server / http://www.opencompute.org/ codebase , hell they should even consider making the worlds first home/SOHO stripped down cost reduced hardware version of that on a PCI-E v4 card and mass sell that faster than antiquated 1Gb/s 'industry standard' and up sell to the server markets.
although id like them to also include as the generic base option to also include pooled ram over OPCIe interconnected devices for the long term benefit of all to group the seperate ram pools all your pcs have today in the tec home (5 pc's + tons of ARM to here)
bug menot
Well, if a FPGA is mostly going to be doing the exact same operations over and over using something like matrix arithmetic or doing encryption/hashing, then it makes sense to have some ASIC-like or CPU-like qualities in specific parts of the chip. Say, a very very fast specialized ALU located in each block. In practice, FPGA's are a balance between the simple old gate array devices and modern GPU's/CPU's. The BTC-mining community might just lead to FPGA's geared to doing the kind of big-integer arithmetic they need. Stuff like bit-swapping and shuffling are very slow on CPU's. The knockoff effect is higher performance for those implementing, say an SSL accelerator or disk encryption program, or even the related field of data compression and analysis.
Modern encryption methods and 3D rendering are very much capable of being vectored into parallel operations, which are the shining example of what FPGA's and GPGPU's are great at. If I merely wanted a fast serial device, I'd just get a CPU (and yes, this includes DSP's)!
http://rednetworkblog.net Térence Vigan
I was thinking: Could an FPGA help in video games using PhysX so it could liberate us ( devs and users ) of Nvidia monopoly about it for example ?
bug menot
A FPGA with merely thousands of gates? Even CPLD's have more than that. They're in the realm of a mere several millions or something way smaller than the hundreds of millions on CPU's and billions on RAM chips, though.
http://www.classicdosgames.com DOSGuy
The traditional, permanent gates of CPUs and GPUs are faster than FPGAs. The problem with a CPU is that it's a general purpose processor. It has gates devoted to doing a lot of different things, many of which may not be useful to you.
An ASIC (application specific integrated circuit) will always be faster than a general purpose processor for the specific task that it was designed to perform. For instance, Deeper Blue (the computer that beat Kasparov at chess) was full of ASICs that were specifically designed to analyze chess positions, which dramatically increased the number of moves per second that the computer could analyze. If it had been forced to use only general purpose processors, it wouldn't have been able to consider as many moves, and consequently would have played a weaker game.
What Intel is doing here is giving customers a middle ground between a general purpose processor and an ASIC. The permanently gated part of the chip will be way faster at performing any given task than an identically configured FPGA ever could, so that's why they're not making Core i7s that are pure FPGA. But the Core i3/5/7 only has so many floating point units, so many registers, so many WHATEVER, and that number is set in stone. If you have a workload that would benefit from having a huge number of [insert resource here], you can program the FPGA to have those resources. They'll be slower than if those resources were permanently gated, but without the FPGA you couldn't have them at all. The FPGA allows you to supplement the CPU's existing resources with whatever additional resources you need.
don't forget that creating an fpga "program" is much harder than just running a program on a general purpose CPU.
it is not just going from code to debug phase and done.
you have to do a logic simulation than a real simulation and than you could still do a custom rooting to get the fpga even faster. if the algorithm fit in the FPGA than it is faster than most GP processor.
one good note for FPGAs to get new ground are memresistors. for example mrFPGA it significantly reduces area (x5) power(1.63x) and performance(2.28x) at the same time while not going to 3d logic.
xcore fan
"don't forget that creating an fpga "program" is much harder than just running a program on a general purpose CPU. "
that may or not be so, but for those interested see Build-your-own-FPGA slice
http://blog.notdot.net/2012/10/Build-your-own-FPGA for fun…
there is no real high level launghiush for programming. and an fpga contains >10 k slices. but it was interesing to see an fpga build on old components.
bug menot
Too bad that they don't have something like zones where your application is only allowed to access that specific area on the chip. Right now, it's not feasible to have tons of dedicated RAM located directly inside the device. A hybrid RAM-CPU has been a pipe dream of every mathematically-inclined hobbyist since FPGA's came out. :(
it would be interesting though, if you could program it much like the hypervisors and protected-mode privilege systems on an x86 or their 64-bit successors. You would give access to specific bits from other bits in memory using preconfigured paths kind of like programmable interconnects. This delves into multi-processor territory… stuff like polling and shared memory and so on. From a functional point-of-view, each application is a black box running in specific blocks, with memory mapped to specific pages in (cached for performance) external RAM. The security implications are kind of interesting, though. There's both positives and negatives in that kind of architecture. Hiding malware for one, and preventing escalation for another. If a block can only by design write/read certain bits in the registers it's provided, and it's own internal state, and a protected range of memory, then in theory there's no locks to pick. There would have to be some kind of backdoor to pause and read the state of every process, to make malware-prevention feasible. A major advantage is that there's no task-switching penalty for applications that run constantly. Another is power-saving by default. You can turn on and off specific blocks without changing the internal clock speed when a process no longer needs to be loaded into the FPGA.
yea there are some operating systems created by universeties that dynamical reprogram the FPGA so it is optimised for the task. to bad that only the expensive FPGA hardware can do this. except maybe the zynq or the altera SOC.
Another is power-saving by default. You can turn on and off specific
blocks without changing the internal clock speed when a process no
longer needs to be loaded into the FPGA."
its not that simple you have to have some powergates at certain blocks to shut them down otherwise they are just idling.
clock scaling is easily done in an FPGA however power gating is very hard to do right.
also yo u can encapsulate your memory in an FPGA, the easiest way is to not allow the module to see certain memory locations. assume you got 64 bit memory addresses than the module can only use 16bit addresses a module after it will set the offset.
a second and better way is a memory controller it returns 0 if a module accesses addresses when it is not allowed to access so at the end of the day you got a SOC with some special purpose functions.
so i still think the hybrid chip like intel showed is the best bnut it will cost an arm and a leg.
bug menot
Well I figured you were going to have to use a MMU of some kind in there. Implementing it as segmented memory like you said worked good enough for decades for the x86. The actual memory pointed to may be entirely different addresses when mapped to the RAM address bus(ses). The fact that this wasn't enforced was a major security bug in 95/98/ME!
GPGPU's have a practical solution to the memory busses conflict issue but it's not quite the same as what we're talking about. And micro-coding isn't exactly trivial even before going all parallelism, hehe.
derp derp derp derp
"Comparing FPGAs and DSPs for Embedded Signal Processing
Performance Analysis
•Comparing performance of off-the-shelf DSP
to that of FPGAs is tricky
•Common MMACS metric is oversimplified to
the point of absurdity
•FPGAs vendors use distributed-arithmetic
benchmark implementations that require fixed
•MMACS metric overlooks need to dedicate
resources to non-MAC tasks
•Many important DSP algorithms don't use MACs at
xcore fan
a LOTS changed (or rather far more progress has been may'ed) since that joke of a US 2002 FPGA/DSP PDF paper…
see the UK https://www.xmos.com/download/public/DSP-performance-on-XS1-L-device%28X7424C%29.pdf Xcore DSP with "on the fly" re-program-ability since david may's Transputer roots…
Choosing the Right Architecture for Real-Time Signal Processing Designs
22.214.171.124 FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array)
FPGA was judged good in the matter of time to market. FPGAs avail field-ready modifications to achieve functions. Their flexibility is not as high as software programmable alternatives, thus they fall below DSP, MCU and RISC in their rating for time to market. However, they have better support and faster cycle time than ASSP, configurable processors or ASIC, and thus can claim faster time to market than those alternatives.
FPGA was judged excellent in the matter of performance. With FPGAs, developers can tune hardware gates specific to the application, delivering high application-specific performan
FPGA was judged poor in the matter of price. FPGA is by far the most expensive alternative discussed here, achieving a poor rating.
FPGA was judged poor in the matter of power. FPGA is the bottom of the pack in power efficiency, an inherent trait in FPGA circuit technology as well as the overhead power of unused gates in the array. Technology advances will lower FPGA power, but likely not enough to change its place in the relative ranking on power efficiency.
FPGA was judged excellent in the matter of development ease. FPGA would rate the best on development cost assuming two situations: that the toolset for FPGA programming is not too expensive; and, assuming the developer is dealing primarily with hardware, that the engineer is involved in the development. If development leans towards software engineers, then FPGA would increase in effort and relative cost. In terms of development help, the FPGA tools and support structure for FPGA-based designs seems to be well established and acceptable to OEMs.
FPGA was judged good in the matter of feature flexibility. It can be field reconfigured for additional features or changes. However, this act of hardware reprogramming of an FPGA is more difficult and the achievable feature sets are more limited than software programmable
solutions like DSP.
FPGAs gates aren't fully programmable software wise, they can be reconfigured on some architectures even a lot but not as much as DSP or CPUs. FPGAs must be designed for specific functions, even if thru hacks someone manages to make them run algorithms they weren't designed for the performance hit would then be so high that is not worth the trouble. While modern DSP can be fully programmed to compute algorithms they weren't designed for (and still getting a performance hit when trying to run tasks common on general purpose CPUs). Older DSP architectures weren't so flexible…
http://www.korioi.net/ Korios
"fixed, hard-wired functionality…"
Have you confused ASICs with FPGAs?
xcore fan
he's probably confusing the original Ferranti produced some of the first large 'uncommitted logic arrays' (ULAs) where you wired them as a final step to make your required DSP/ASIC functions, perhaps even going all the way back to The Manchester Mark I and Atlas cores and their pre /FPGA/DSP descendants.
Ivor O'Connor
Seems like this might spawn a whole new specialist niche that could command million dollar figures.
Matt Menezes
I was just thinking this. I bet this is a boon to Altera FPGA programmers.
carol argo
Outch !it is a nice idea on paper but gees only the bigguns are likely to bother(Google,ms,facebook,)
Core+FPGA this already exists. zync and sockit fpga is an arm core with fpga but it is damn expencive and there are no dimms used. so it isn't really an upgradable system.
http://www.cardinalphoto.com David Cardinal
Speaking of Zync, do you have any experience with Vivado? I heard a Xilinx talk about using it with Zync to do programming on both the ARM & the fabric, and it sounds really interesting. But hearing a talk and having someone actually say it works in practice are two different things…
i have only used the normal xilinx ise, for a spartan 3 board (nexus 2 digielent). The problem with vivado it is a paid software.
i find it a very intresing soc but as i said it is to expencive for hobbyists and there is no open (free to use whitout limitations) software and no IP black blocks, DLL style hardware.
if they ever want to get to the consumer market than they will have to change there business model.
http://www.cardinalphoto.com David Cardinal
Thx. The good news is that if Vivado is really good, someone will probably build an open-source competitor at some point.
there where opencource place and routers in the past but you really have to know the hardware this information is not anvailable,
what we really need would be an fully opensource FPGA from hardware to software but it is never gooing to happen because of cost contrains.
Greg Daughtry
Vivado is not paid software – it is offered through WebPack (free for certain devices) just like ISE was. It does however only work for newer (7-series) devices. One cannot build an open source fpga compilation chain without very low-level knowledge of the devices – which is not open source – that is intellectual property. But if you think you can do better than the FPGA vendors themselves – Vivado is far more open than anything that has come before it.
ok thanks it seems i missed something.
Goddamnit, I was just having a discussion on another site about whether or not it would be a good move for AMD to integrate FPGAs with their APUs to help fight against Intel.
I think AMD would be in better standing with HSA and a driver that could flexibly reprogram the FPGA according to workload, though… Oh well.
xcore fan
by far the simplest option for all the FPGA and DSP/ULA vendor etc today would be to simply mass join the Linaro group and setup a collective core that integrates all their IP into a single shop window where all the different core interfaces interface in a generic autoconfig way to all the current NoC (Network On Chip) where they all have a dedicated hashed Number integrated as per the old amiga autoconfig hardware lists.
then you could be sure being an OEM or an end consumer building your preferred device that whatever you plug in just works and autoconfig's itself on power up, done the right way OC.
AMD and all the others could get behind that and produce anything they like even in small batches of custom PCB if they like
so they heard about HP huh?
This is possibly Intel's stupidest product. It goes backwards in almost every way.
Languages are going higher level, battling terrible programmer productivity, Intel wants us to program in logic gates. Assembler is too high level!
Everyone wants to cut power consumption, Intel adds something that increases power consumption.
Companies want parallelism, Intel doubles down on singlet thread performance.
Companies want open and standard, Intel looks for another way to lock customers in.
Companies want cheap and plentiful for hyperscale installations… who's going to buy thousands and thousands of these to scale it to where it becomes useful? Note that Intel isn't mentioning pricing, but of course this is Intel.
IF FPGA's are such a good idea, why aren't they being deployed already?
FPGAs are widely used and deployed in certain markets. This product is not intended for consumers, but for situations where someone needs an FPGA and would otherwise use an external one.
Joel Hruska
"IF FPGA's are such a good idea, why aren't they being deployed already?"
FPGA's did $4.5B in 2011. They're being deployed. Intel obviously believes it can capture some of that market.
I mean by "cloud" operators, or anyone in the hyperscale market. Obviously FPGAs are widely used.
I should note that MS did some research implementing FPGAs for Bing search, but not sure if they actually rolled it out.
Joel Hruska
They are rolling it out.
The idea is that you can an FPGA to better address a specific task, then reprogram it if needs be. This kind of work may very well be where the next generation of compute performance comes from, especially if Intel and AMD can power gate them well and turn them off completely. (AMD hasn't announced plans for an FPGA as such, but it's evaluating multiple types of heterogeneous compute, not just the GPU).
FPGAs provide a performance solution, but is it the right solution, and is Intel's bolted-on device the right solution? In the case of MS, they used standalone FPGAs and their results showed that they could deploy several FPGAs before requiring another CPU. So again the issues of parallelism come to the fore.
There is no question that implementing code in hardware gives you a jump in performance, but what's being ignored is the practicalities of it. The range of code that can be ported to a FPGAs is limited and there are myriad implementation issues. Decent hardware designers, ie VHDL, Verilog programmers, are even harder to find than decent C programmers. You can program the FPGAs in C but then you have performance and space issues and… what was the point of FPGAs again?
Code always changes and the overhead of maintaining a FPGA deign makes this highly questionable. An arguably better solution is more standards based parallelism at the architecture level, along the lines of OpenCL, which solves bandwidth/memory/other issues in a integrated fashion, and implementing higher level languages (such as functional languages) that can be executed in parallel. That model is more flexible and practical and what the (data processing/cloud) industry is moving towards and will accelerate as programmers develop the required skills.
http://www.cardinalphoto.com David Cardinal
FWIW, Xilinx pitches one of the major advantages of their ALU (ARM) + FPGA on a single chip as high performance access to common memory. Presumably that could be an advantage in this case also?
John Lauro
They are deployed in many HPC environments which are hyperscale.
John Lauro
Companies want parallelism and single thread performance because sometimes the bottleneck boils down to a single thread and sometimes it can be threaded out. Anyways, it sounds like you don't get the idea of FPGA's, as they are massively parallel devices, that is how they boost speed.
It seems you don't understand much about logic design.
Although the gates in FPGAs operate somewhat independently and in parallel, that doesn't mean you can use them to implement practical parallel processing. Besides issues of synchronization, there are issues with supplying each processing node with enough data (and getting back off) and code encapsulation. What if you need to make a floating point calculation. Are you going to implement an FPU at each node or call the processor's FPU? What if you need to call a library, will you make an external call or re-implement in on the gate array? Issues of latency, bandwidth, cache coherency and your gate budget start becoming problematic.
These issues are manageable for certain processing, but not so for most code. You might live in a nirvana where FPGAs are a panacea for your performance bottleneck, but in the real world there are all sorts of performance bottlenecks and trade offs in implementing in hardware.
John Lauro
Doesn't mean you always can, but it doesn't mean you can't. They are not a panacea, but they often can do massive parallel processing, if not directly, then by pipelining allowing the different parts of the logic to be working on different parts of a same problem from different sets of data at the same time.
1. AFAIK, FPGAs are actually quite slow.
2. Are there many companies/end users with the in-house talent to program FPGAs?
3. Being able to create your own chip design through FPGAs does not avoid the need to be able to program them compared to say, Nvidia's GPUs. My point is, while you would need special programming tools, compilers and the know-how to program Nvidia GPUs, how is having FPGAs at your disposal going to avoid the issues associated with GPUs? If anything, you should still program them, but you can't turn to Intel for programming tools or compilers, which means you should make your own tools. Isn't that harder?
4. I think it's obvious why Intel allowed Altera access to their fabs. Let's just say, there's no such thing as a free lunch.
Joel Hruska
1). FPGA's are now faster than ASICS (or can compete with them) in many tasks. They're cheaper and faster to market.
2). This is for companies like Google, FB, and Amazon: Answer = yes.
3). The fact that this is for companies like Google, FB, and Amazon means they can contribute the necessary programming skills and languages.
http://www.cardinalphoto.com David Cardinal
To echo Joel's point, I was at a conference on Embedded Vision systems recently, and many of the Auto vision vendors (for example) were embedding key algorithms (like pedestrian identification) into the FPGA fabric so that they would run faster and use less power than with the GPU implementation.
So what you're saying is that Intel implemented this for the two or three possible customers who are capable of using it, even though they're not actually committed to using it?
I think this article is quite interesting:
Joel Hruska
I would agree with Charlie in that Intel is desperate to keep its high-margin server business, that it's concerned about an ARM advance, and that an attack from the FPGA front would be another area to defend against.
I honestly do not know how many of the major companies are looking to FPGA hardware in particular. But if Google / Facebook / Amazon are banging on Intel's door and talking up FPGA's as competitors, it makes sense for Intel to integrate a design. Ultimately, Intel is in the business of giving its customers what they want.
Frank Langham
Soon, all major apps will be shipped as a custom tailored single chip computer that plugs into an applications backplane, so, Adobe Premiere CSx will come embedded on tis own SSD with an integrated CPU/GPU that is custom optimized and specific to THAT version of that particular app. … various apps will use the backplane and a central bus-mastering multiplexer to share ports and other, more generic, central resources. … Large read-write caches and "work-slates" will be local to specific apps, but central system storage and memory will also be readily available. … It will look like an SD card and will plug into a multi-serial back-plane.
FPGA's see LOTS of usage in electrical test gear like logic analyzers, oscilloscopes, laboratory power supplies, function generators, high end digital multi-meters, and spectrum analyzers.
In fact I sent an E-mail to Mark Papermaster of AMD that they should implement their GCN architecture block from their GPU's into an FPGA chip. That would allow for SP and DP usage with fixed hardware from the GCN architecture, but still allow the flexibility to use FPGA to make configurable hardware logic. Some high end FPGA's already use ARM processors inside them, so I see no problem with using a massively parallel core from a GPU inside an FPGA.
http://www.kubuntu.org/ Lilian A. Moraru
From another site: Diane Bryant, in a speech at GigaOm Structure. "The FPGA has direct
access to the Xeon cache hierachy and system memory," she explained.
wheres the pdfs with instruction sets , tools , example code , and a pc dev mobo
Sebastian Schwank
We'll soon see.
But where the fuck is the C++ – > VHDL Compiler ?
aka Software Hardware transcoder ?
Sebastian Schwank
– Every Class should be a instance of a hardware part.
– Instancing Classes with functions on Hardware
– Every Variable has to have his own memory near by the CU calculation
unit defined by the function code.


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Daily Insight | Wally Swain | February 6, 2013
Until now, nearly all of the news following BlackBerry's release of the BlackBerry 10 platform has been positive. That is until it was revealed the U.S. release of the company's full QWERTY Q10 device may be delayed by as much as two months.
According to an Associated Press story published by Yahoo News, BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins has said the release of the Q10 will follow that of the touchscreen Z10 by about eight to 10 weeks. With the U.S. launch of the Z10 scheduled for mid-March, the release of the Q10 device is tabbed for late May or, at worst, the early part of June.
With BB10 having been released on Jan. 30, the much lag time could have negative implications for BlackBerry's latest QWERTY smartphone. It's believed that enterprise users, traditional BlackBerry's core user base, are most excited about a new BB10 device with a physical keyboard.
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The Q10 is scheduled to launch in many markets in April, including in those markets that have early Z10 launches such as the U.K. and Canada. But the U.S. will not launch the Z10 until mid-March and Q10 testing is apparently complicated by the operators' conservatism and by the complexity of the U.S. market. Think of all those frequency combinations and voice fallback options.
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Oh my goodness, is that Forget-Me-Not 2?! Please make whatever that picture represents happen. I still think that Forget-Me-Not is the best iOS game I've ever played on the platform, and to this day have not deleted my original copy…actually, maybe once, but that was to save drive space at that moment in time. I instantly re-downloaded it when I had the chance.
If you make a new one, Brandon, I'll instantly buy it. Make sure, however, to get some marketing… I know it's probably really expensive, but I think the biggest problem the first one faced wasn't connected to the game's gameplay itself- it was that no one knew about it, and that's a travesty. It's too good to be as little known as it is.
I'm glad that you basically took Pandemonium and improved upon it with new mechanics and gameplay tweaks. The visuals and sound effects perfectly blend with the atmosphere of the game (atmosphere in a mobile game?!). The controls are tight as hell, and the enemy AI are diverse enough that each enemy has their own personality, blending perfectly with how they look on-screen.
The various modes of play (arcade, arena, etc.) give numerous amounts of different gameplay experiences, and the addition of two-player is much appreciated. Whenever I tell people what this game is like, I say "It's Pac-Man mixed with a Dungeon crawler mixed with fantasy and sci-fi". Pac-Man is always close to my heart, and the fantasy stuff (mages) is really fun. I also love the chain mechanics, as well as the grinding mechanic (although I'm not too good at it). I could talk almost endlessly about the other mechanics or nuances in the game, but you probably already know about them.
The game also leaves you to interpret what each level would look like in a 3D space… Sometimes I find myself in neon-drenched arenas of mass chaos, and sometimes I'm stuck in a dark cathedral with rain drenching the earth outside. This game gives you the chance to use your imagination, an experience that very few games today can give.
I could talk for another seven or eight pages, detailing the game and my love for it further, but I'll spare you with this: please, please, PLEASE make a sequel. …. Or just make something entirely different. From what I have seen, you've got some creativity, and I will buy what you make. Thanks for the hours of fun I've gotten and continue to get out of FMN. Can't wait to see what you make next, Brandon. Thank you so much.
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If you were in Philly this past weekend and didn't stop by Temple University for "Real Talk with Sister Souljah and Will Smith," you definitely missed out. Will Smith joined Sister Souljah on stage as she promoted her new book, "A Deeper Love Inside: The Porsche Santiaga Story," and the two brought their raw, honest truth to the table as they talked candidly about love and relationships, as well as the sacrifices it takes to keep marriages together. It was truly amazing how transparent and honest Will was as he talked about his life, his family and his marriage, and there were so many priceless gems that were dropped throughout the program that could help others seek long-lasting relationships and marriages.
One thing that was very interesting was Will's perspective on his kids. He revealed that he had to learn over time to be more aware of their emotional needs and their own dreams versus the dreams that he may have had for his kids. Last week, news broke that Willow Smith would no longer play the lead role in the high-profile remake of "Annie," because she had become too old to play the part, but according to Will, that wasn't exactly the real story. Willow wasn't really interested in playing the part anymore because she wanted to focus on being a normal 12-year-old.
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In the past 18 months, I have spent a lot of time focusing on the emotional aspect of my life and my family. In 2010, in one year, our family had the 'Karate Kid.' we had 'Whip my Hair,' we had Hawthorne, and at the end of the year, we did the Nobel Concert when Barack Obama won his Nobel Peace Prize. Don't be clapping yet, that wears you out. The thing that had become very clear to me is the danger of a material world and focusing so hard on coming up with money or a house or a job. You focus so hard on those things, and sometimes you can lose focus on why you are doing it in the first place. The only reason to do any of that is to have love.
Willow was supposed to be doing 'Annie,' we got Jay-Z to do the movie, got the studio to come in and Willow had such a difficult time on tour with 'Whip my Hair' and she said, 'You know Daddy, I don't think so' and I said, 'Baby, hold up! I said no,no,no, listen, you'll be in New York with all of your friends and Beyoncé will be there. You will be singing and dancing,' and she looked at me and said, 'Daddy, I have a better idea, how about I just be 12.'
I'm really learning through Willow the necessity that we have to snap ourselves back and refocus on the emotional needs of the people that we love. Someone's emotional needs can be very very different from your dreams and what you think they should be doing and where they are supposed to be.
What I took away from that was, when you are a parent who has a super talented kid, you will naturally want to push them to the limit of their abilities so that the world can see their talents. Sometimes you may have to take a step back and ask, "Is this my child's dream or is this my dream for my child?" I believe every parent may go through this at some point.
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What difference does it make? Hillary Clinton's book tease for 'Hard Choices' doesn't mention Benghazi
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Hillary Clinton's soon-to-be-released book is titled "Hard Choices" (which was of course preceded by husband Bill's book "Choice Hardons"). There is a four-minute video tease featuring Hillary outlining the book here.
One topic not mentioned at all in the tease: Benghazi. Gee, I wonder why. Maybe deciding to do nothing but blame a video wasn't considered all that hard of a choice.
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May 28th, 2014 3:27 pm
Hillary never had any hard choices. Bill was the only one who would have her.
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May 28th, 2014 11:17 pm
The magical thinking never STOPS w/ this crew does it!? Maybe if uh… we just, um…
Book was probably auto-scripted/pre-edited right after she was appointed SoS. Why change NOW?
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May 29th, 2014 1:51 pm
Hillary's hardest choice, is whether to dump Bill and Marry Huma just before the election in 2016, or fall and bump her head again when Trey Gowdy hauls her in to testify about Benghazi.
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Cançonièr closes Houston Early Music season with Dracula program Friday, April 26, 7:30 p.m.
HOUSTON, TX – March 25, 2013 – San Francisco quartet Cançonièr will close the Houston Early Music season with a program titled "The Black Dragon: Music from the Time of Vlad Dracula" at Palmer Memorial Episcopal Church on Friday, April 26, at 7:30 p.m. The program features 15th-century music from the time of the infamous […] [Read More]
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The first of four presentations in "The Resilient Woman Speaker Series" at Woodlands Academy of the Sacred Heart is Wednesday, Oct. 30, at 7 p.m. at the school, 760 East Westleigh Road, Lake Forest. Dr. Lisa Damour, director of the Center for Research on Girls at the Laurel School in Ohio, will discuss "Young Women and Resilience." This program is free and open to the general public. The theme for the current school year at Woodlands is "The Resilient Sacred Heart Woman." Graduating women of courage, confidence and compassion is Woodlands Academy's four-year goal. For information, visit www.woodlandsacademy.org.
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Sometimes leadership and policies are mutually exclusive.
Don't get me wrong -- workplace policies have their place.
They can help bring clarity to ambiguity, for example. They can create some level of consistency in management. And well-written (uh,oh, there's a nasty qualifier) policies can make leaders' jobs simpler, as they provide somewhat standardized solutions to simple, mundane, and repetitive issues.
They can also, however, be dumber than dirt.
Case in point: Last Saturday morning, my girls talked me into taking them to one of those typical box-like breakfast joints in our area. Our server, though pleasant and reasonably efficient, had a name tag on her blouse. Except, it was blank. There was no name actually on the name tag.
We joked about it, as did some people in a nearby table, and our server just smiled.
My curiosity piqued, I had to ask... "Why, pray-tell, are you wearing a name tag with no name?" Her response? "We have a policy that you cannot work your shift unless you are wearing A name tag. I was fairly astounded, and asked "Even if it doesn't have a name on it?" She said "Yep. It could even belong to someone else..."
I corralled the manager, much to my wife's and daughter's obvious chagrin. I asked him if this was true; he replied, "Yes sir, our corporate policy doesn't require the name tag to actually have her name on it... there's nothing I can do if she's wearing a name tag -- any name tag."
It was all I could do to not choke him.
People, this is when policies get just plain stupid. Dumb. Idiotic. Never, ever, allow a poorly-written policy to supplant effective, positive leadership.
Policies don't lead. They support leaders. If they don't support leaders, change 'em or ditch 'em.
To Whomever is Writing Such Drivel... Stop it. Consider the doctor's Hippocratic oath when compelled to write your next inane policy: First, do no harm.
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BOURBONNAIS, Ill. – Olivet Nazarene University volleyball coach Brenda Williams is pleased to announce that Macie Riegel of Hudsonville, Mich. has signed a letter of intent to continue her education and playing career as a Tiger.
"I loved the campus and the friendly atmosphere," said Riegel regarding her choice. "I really felt that this is where God intended me to be."
Riegel, a two-year varsity starter, helped lead the Eagles to 43 wins her senior season, including a Division 1 District Championship. She finished the season with 250 Kills and 53 Blocks, seven solo and 46 assists. She also added 34 assists, 79 digs and 20 service aces. She is a member of the 17U Impact Dynamic Training Club team which finished fifth at the MJVBA State Tournament last spring, playing in the 18 Open Division. An Academic All-State honoree, Riegel plans to major in social work while at Olivet. She is the daughter of Mason and Julie Riegel.


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Manganiello encourages physical fitness and proper nutrition to students, faculty, staff and community members at the 5,200-square-foot facility in the East Gym.
"One of the things the East Gym promotes is gradually getting in shape, not just crash-dieting or going to the gym the week before spring break," says Manganiello, a senior this year. "It's more of a lifestyle than someone going on a diet for a few weeks."
Manganiello's efforts do not stop there, though. She is the vice president of the Eating Awareness Student Subcommittee, works with the Pre-Health Student Advisory Committee and has interned with the Southern Tier Eating Disorder Network. The eating awareness group has helped bring whole wheat pasta to campus and Manganiello said she would like to see a farmers' market come to campus.
Jennifer Hunter, program coordinator for Campus Recreational Services, is impressed with Manganiello's "passion for health and fitness."
"Her knowledge base and genuine, friendly personality make a difference in the lives of those she interacts with on a daily basis in our fitness center," Hunter says.
Manganiello wants to continue wellness in the future: She hopes to go to graduate school for sports nutrition.
"There are different things that people don't know about with eating and training," she says. "I think it would be fun to work with athletes. It's also a good way to combine my love for nutrition with my love of personal training. You can't work out and not eat right. The two go hand-in-hand."
Manganiello followed older brothers Andrew '07 and Michael '09 to Binghamton. Activities such as FitSpace and playing with the field hockey club have enabled her to make a wide variety of friends across all majors, she said.
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Coroner rules Anglo-Saxon find part of Staffordshire Hoard
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MORE than 80 Anglo-Saxon artifacts found buried in a field have been ruled to be part of the Staffordshire Hoard.
The 81 metal items were uncovered in November in the same field, near Lichfield, where the hoard of 3,500 objects, dating back to the 7th century, was discovered in 2009.
At today's treasure trove inquest, South Staffordshire Coroner Andrew Haigh ruled that the items were treasure, and were part of the hoard.
Ten other objects found at the same time were discounted, although two of these date to a similar period as the hoard.
Mr Haigh said: "The Staffordshire Hoard was a magnificent find. I very much hope that these further items will be saved for the nation and added to the Hoard."
The items will now be value at the British Museum. Stoke-on-Trent City Council and Staffordshire County Council have state their intention to purchase the new items.
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By Sgt. 1st Class Doug Sample, USAAmerican Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, March 14, 2003 Coalition aircraft used precision-guided weapons to attack Iraqi radar sites southwest of Baghdad March 13, U.S. Central Command officials reported.
The strikes, in the Southern No-fly Zone at about 4 p.m. Eastern time, were in response to another Iraqi violation of U.N. Security Council Resolution 688. The coalition established the Southern No-fly Zone to ensure the safety of coalition aircraft monitoring Iraqi compliance with the U.N. resolution.
The Iraqis have continued to target coalition air patrols in the southern and northern zones despite the drops of hundreds of thousands of leaflets warning them of the immediate, deadly consequences of doing so.
Iraqi anti-aircraft artillery fired on coalition aircraft March 10. In response, coalition forces struck three unmanned, underground military communications sites near the Iraqi towns of Ad Diwaniyah, Dabnuni and Mamia.
CENTCOM officials said coalition aircraft never target civilian populations or infrastructure to avoid injury to civilians and damage to civilian facilities.
Also today, European Command officials said coalition aircraft in the north dropped 120,000 informational leaflets near Iraqi anti-aircraft artillery batteries at Ayn Zalah airfield. The flyers warned them about the deadly price of firing on coalition aircraft, which they've a history of doing, according to EUCOM.
The officials also reported another quarter-million leaflets were dropped March 13 on forces in the vicinity of Tall Afar and Saddam Lake.
The missions are the third and fourth leaflet drops the coalition during its 12-year history of enforcing the Northern No-fly Zone and monitoring Iraq's for compliance with U.N. Security Council resolutions.
Meanwhile, CENTCOM officials said Bagram Air Base hospital personnel treated two U.S. soldiers and two Afghans today. A spider bit one soldier; the other suffered dog bites. Both troops were treated and released.
A six-year old Afghan boy was medically evacuated from the Madr Valley, treated for abscessed tonsils and later released. The most serious injury, a three- year-old boy suffering from second-degree burns over 30 percent of his body, was flown from Kandahar to Bagram Air Base for treatment. He is listed in stable condition.


text: Prev | Next U.S. gymnasts, front left to right, Gabrielle Douglas, Kyla Ross, McKayla Maroney and Jordyn Wieber celebrate along with coach Jenny Zhang as they look at the score of a teammate's performance during the Artistic Gymnastics women's team final at the 2012 Summer Olympics, Tuesday, July 31, 2012, in London. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham) Gallery: Women's gymnastics Aug. 01, 2012 @ 10:04 AM 2012/The Herald-Dispatch The U.S. women won the gold medal in the Olympics in London on Tuesday. ()


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SACRAMENTO, CA - The U.S. Department of Defense says a Redding soldier died from injuries he suffered when an improvised explosive device (IED) detonated in Khakrez, Afghanistan where he served.
Sean R. Jacobs, 23, held the rank of 1st lieutenant. He was assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 17th Field Artillery Regiment, 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington.
The incident took place last Thursday.
Friday, Spc. Benjamin C. Pleitez, 25, from Turlock died in Mazar E Sharif, Afghanistan.
A California National Guardsman, Pleitez was assigned to the 1072nd Transportation Company, 746th Combat Support Battalion, 224th Sustainment Brigade, Van Nuys.


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For Immediate Release
Contact:Deborah Gilleran
Human Trafficking Called Modern-Day Slavery
Lakewood, N.J., Mar. 29, 2007—The U.S. State Department estimates that 600,000 to 800,000 people are trafficked across international borders each year, 80 percent of whom are women and girls and up to 50 percent who are children. Sadly, many are captured for sex and other kinds of human slavery, and it's taking place right here in New Jersey. On Tuesday, April 24, 2007, at 6:30 p.m., Georgian Court University will shed light on this horrific topic and suggest ways people can help. Taking place in the Little Theatre on GCU's Lakewood campus, the program is free, but reservations are required.
"We'll kick off with the 2005 film Human Trafficking, written by Carol Doyle and directed by Christian Duguay, and featuring actors Donald Sutherland, Mira Sorvino, and Robert Carlyle. We are showing segments from the film to highlight various aspects of human trafficking," says Sandra Prucha, RSM, Ed.D, GCU assistant professor of psychology.
After the film, Sister Prucha will facilitate a discussion on the topic. "As Sisters of Mercy, we are committed to works that address the needs of the "poor, sick, and uneducated" and those in any way wounded by contemporary society. Joining other professors here at Georgian Court University, I am committed to having our students be aware of and help prevent such horrible human atrocities such as human trafficking," Sister Prucha adds.
"Human trafficking" differs from "people smuggling" because in the latter, people voluntarily pay a fee for a smuggler's help to gain access to a country. A trafficking victim, however, is exploited and enslaved, with the trafficker taking away all basic human rights. Victims are often tricked, lured by false promises, physically forced, or drugged by traffickers.
Often from poorer regions of the world where opportunities are limited, trafficked people are usually from the most vulnerable in society, such as runaways, refugees, or other displaced persons. Women are particularly at risk from kidnappers who exploit their lack of opportunity and then force the victims into prostitution. Children are trafficked for both labor exploitation and sexual exploitation.
The U.S. State Department's "Trafficking in Persons Report," released by the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons on June 3, 2005, calls human trafficking "a form of modern-day slavery."
The report states, "More than 140 years ago, the United States fought a devastating war to rid our country of slavery, and to prevent those who supported it from dividing the nation. Although the vast majority of nations succeeded in eliminating the state-sanctioned practice, a modern form of human slavery has emerged as a growing global threat to the lives and freedom of millions of men, women, and children. Today, slavery is rarely state-sponsored. Instead, human trafficking often involves organized crime groups who make huge sums of money at the expense of trafficking victims."
As numbing as these numbers sound, the situation is even worse, since the U.S. report does not take into consideration the millions more who are kidnapped and trafficked within their own countries. The International Labor Organization (ILO), the United Nations agency charged with addressing social-protection issues, estimates that 12.3 million people are enslaved in forced labor, bonded labor, forced child labor, sexual servitude, and involuntary servitude at any given time.
The Georgian Court program will help participants increase their global awareness of this debilitating crime and how it relates to immigration. The program will start with a film on this subject and follow with a discussion led by Sister Prucha.
For more information or to register, contact the Georgian Court University Office of Conferences and Special Events at 732.987.2263 or firstname.lastname@example.com. Directions to GCU can be obtained at www.georgian.edu, and free parking is available on campus.
Founded in 1908 and sponsored by the Sisters of Mercy, Georgian Court University is a comprehensive university with a strong liberal arts core and a special concern for women. A forward-thinking university that supports diversity and academic excellence, Georgian Court serves over 3,000 students of all faiths and backgrounds in a residential Women's College and a coeducational University College with undergraduate and graduate programs. Georgian Court's main campus is located at 900 Lakewood Avenue, Lakewood, N.J., on the picturesque former George Jay Gould estate, now named a National Historic Landmark. Georgian Court also offers classes at its site at 90 Woodbridge Center Drive in Woodbridge and at Coastal Communiversity in Wall and Cumberland County College in Vineland.
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2007 Kawasaki KX450F
Hello, for sale is my 2007 kx450f dirt bike
The bike runs amazing. Engine rebuilt last year.
Starts up 1st kick. Has many aftermarkets
Oversized rads, FMF exhaust, rental bars, shaved seat
All in all a nice fast, tight machine.
Selling due to financial problems.
Asking 2,399 or best offer call or text 724-980- seven six five nine
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New Kensington
03 Harley
03 RoadKing Anniversary model. Like new & Clean, adult owned garage kept. Side bag rails, Digital chrome oil dipstick, chrome reg cover, chrome front bumper. Many goodies!
Never laid down, very clean...
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West Newton
Very very good condition
Starts up first kick and runs perfect.
The bike is extremely fast and I would not recommend for someone that's unexperienced.
I've owned many yamaha, Suzuki, Kawasaki, Honda, and husqvarana 250's, 450's, etc etc and this bike plain out would dust them all.
The only reason I'm selling is that i need the money.
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New Kensington
2006 Harley Davidson XL883R Sportster
Excellent condition; 3,000 miles; all stock; remote control alarm system
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2014 Yamaha YZ450F
Bought new 3 months ago as a leftover. Ridden 4 weekends about 8 hours by a 55 year old. All original, including tires and no scratches
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Motorcycle helmet
The ngk helmet is flawless and both are very clean make honest offer
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2011 Harley Davidson softail Blackline FXS
.$13500 obo 2011 harley davidson blackline fxs. must sell 5000 miles title in hand. The bike has over 3000$ aftermaket in parts runs like new. You cant not get these kind of bike anymore harley only made it from 2011-2013!!! Very nice bike must see! Text or call david 724-747-4328 new tires and inspection.
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Can-Am Bombardier 0 Miles parts (400 Outlander, Traxter 650,500)
04,05 Bombardier/ Can-Am Outlander 400,Traxter 500&650 these parts are from unit's we obtained with light smoke and fire damage to top of machines these ATV's have 0 miles and never had fuel put in the tank been sitting since 04. The Only run time was factory hot testing. We are parting 3 entire machine's you can email us with your needs. These parts fit many years and models. You will Not ...
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1973 Kawasaki 350 Parts for sale
I have a complete bottom end from a '73 350 Kawasaki and also a rear tail piece with a tail lamp assy. Call for details. I can e-mail pictures if interested. No reasonable offer refused. Would rather not part out the bottom end. No top end included. Would prefer to sell to someone within driving distance. Make offer. 814-445-8626
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2003 Nusun Enduro - 150CC- 2415 Miles
2003 Nusun 150 cc 4 stroke for sale. 2415 Mileage. Runs well, Starts on first or second kick. Is Street Legal, Lights and turn signals are on the bike, But they do need to be connected and a new battery must be bought. Asking $975 or best offer, am Willing to negotiate. NO TRADES. Number is 724-456-557 ask for Tyler. Thank You.
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2012 Can-Am Spyder RSS BARELY USED! LOW MILES ONLY 2539 MILES ! 980CC
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Mustang seat for HD ultra classic 97-07 LIKE NEW!
Mustang seat in good condition. Fits 97 -07 electric glide HD.
$125.00 or B/O.
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West Newton
Very Nice Willie&Max Saddlebags/W Brackets
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2005 Big Dog Pitbull
BIG DOG/PITBULL '05 Black, 3600 miles, 117 inch motor, 300mm rear tire. Original Owner,Garage Kept
Also available is a skid steer blade for $4500. Contact for further details.-See more at: https://www.cacars.com/Motorcycle/Big_Dog/Pitbull/2005_Big%20Dog_Pitbull_for_sale_1010010.html
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2011 Honda Fury 1300cc 2600miles
2011 honda fury just over 2500 miles cobra sweep pipes( No Baffles) spear intake, LED turn signals, Relocated license plate to drive shaft. with extra break light. kept inside under cover. clean title. never in rain, never laid down. always cleaned. flat Orange. good tires and good breaks. Color matched Chin scoop, passenger seat with backrest. factory. open to all offers asking 8000 OBO.
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2014 Harley Davidson CVO Breakout
Selling this 2014 CVO Breakout. It only has 1500 miles on it and it's full of factory custom options / chrome. Save $$$ vs brand new at a dealership. Search 2014 Harley Davidson CVO Breakout and click on the HD LINK for specific details of the motorcycle. It gets compliments anywhere it is parked. -See more at:
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New Castle
2003 Honda XR 50 R
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2005 honda vtx 1800f
I have a beautiful 2005 honda vtx 1800f with only 7k miles. very big and powerful cruiser lots of fun to ride!!
has detachable backrest with luggage rack and vance & hines big shot pipes!
Asking 6,500 obo
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2013 Harley Davidson 883 Sportster, XL883L BLACK
2013 Harley Davidson 883 Sportster, XL883L BLACK W/ SMALL SADDLE LETHER BAG. THIS BIKE IS ONLY 2 YEARS OLD AND RODE DURING THE SUMMER. VERY LIGHT USE. BOUGHT IT FROM HARLEY DAVIDSON DEALER. STILL HAS ITS MANUFACTURING WARRANTY. INSPECTED ON 7/8/15 AND REGISTRATION WAS RENEWED 7/7/15 SO ITS READY FOR THE ROAD. GREAT BIKE FOR SHORTER PEOPLE TO GIVE AN IDEA, I AM 5FT TALL AND MY FEET TOUCH THE ...
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2009 Kawasaki Vulcan 500.
2009 Kawasaki Vulcan 500. Excellent condition! 4,111 miles. Asking $3,200obo.
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2001 Harley Davidson springer soft tail
2001 Harley Davidson springer soft tail. Mint condition fully chromed with custom paint. Comes with extras.$10,500
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Child size 4 Harley Davidson Pants
Leather like (VINAL ) pants, lined for comfort. Black in color. Size 4 . Used ,but in like new condition. I will mail at buyers expense. $10.
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Pride Mobility Go Chair Scooter
This chair is in excellent condition, really clean, brand new batterys. has charger with it also.
This chair is being sold for $1500 used so i decided to let is go for cheaper and i also would like it to sell quickly and let it go to someone who really needs it. If you or anyone you know needs one then please contact me. you can reach me through email or text/call me on the number listed ...
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2002 Harley Davidson Softail Deuce 95 Inch!!
24k miles, fuel injected, inspected til 6/16, beautiful bike, excellent runner, cheap oil pressure gauge not working, no other issues at all. I just don't ride it much, maybe 500 miles in the last 2 years. Title in hand. Price is firm.
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Japanese developer Level 5 has announced the pairing of two of the DS's most popular crime-solving characters at its Vision event in Japan. According to reports from Japan-focused gaming news site Andria Sang, Level 5's Professor Layton will be teaming up with Capcom's Ace Attorney in Professor Layton vs. Ace Attorney, which is being developed for Nintendo's upcoming 3DS handheld. The game is being penned by Ace Attorney director Shu Takumi and is set to be a mystery crime thriller. No further details or a release date were announced.
Capcom's collaboration with Level 5 was first revealed in September, shortly after Capcom's research and development chief Keiji Inafune praised Level 5's CEO Akihiro Hino saying, "In the future, they're going to top us." On the collaboration he said, "Right now, the two of us, with our staff, are working together on some truly interesting things. Even though Hino is younger, he's someone I respect. I wanted to try working with him, so I contacted him."
Level 5 also revealed more about the upcoming Time Travellers, which is also due for release on 3DS. The game was previously announced in Japanese magazine Famitsu back in April, when Hino said the game was being developed for "unreleased hardware."
A trailer shown at the event--which is currently available on YouTube--shows a redheaded girl riding a train, interspersed with a countdown and a shots of a mysterious figure with a suitably evil-sounding voice. The trailer ends with the girl standing on top of a clock tower and appearing to leap from the top. A release date was not given, but Hino mentioned that he expects the game to sell between 500,000 to 1 million units.
Finally, a few more details were given about Professor Layton and the Miracle Mask, which is also a 3DS title. The game will take place a year after Layton and his companion Luke first meet and will feature two timelines: the present Layton and a younger Layton. It will also feature a new online service, which will allow players to download a new puzzle every day for a year.


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Maserati announces Ghibli sedan and Levante crossover
Crossover goes on sale in 2014
Following the unveiling of the GranCabrio MC, Maserati announced the names of two of their upcoming models.
First up, the company's crossover will be called the Levante after the "Via Emilia Levante" in Bologna where the Maserati brothers originally envisioned the automaker. The crossover was recently previewed by the Kubang concept and is slated to go on sale in 2014.
Specifications were not released, but the Levante will be based on the Jeep Grand Cherokee and could be offered with petrol and diesel engines.
Maserati also confirmed their entry-level sedan will wear the iconic Ghibli moniker. Set to slot beneath the next-generation Quattroporte, the Ghibli could be based on the Chrysler 300 and powered by a twin-turbo V6 engine with 400 hp (298 kW / 406 PS).
Paris, 27 September 2012- "The international spotlight of the Paris Auto Show - where Maserati is introducing the new GranCabrio MC - is the perfect setting to announce the names of the three much awaited future Maserati products; the models that will give Maserati a completely new scope to 50,000 units per year by 2015.
The first of the announced new models is the all-new Maserati Quattroporte - the model which will continue the 50-year success story which began in 1963, when Maserati established the category of 'Luxury Sports Saloon' with the introduction of the first Quattroporte.
The new high-end E segment four-door saloon will be named Ghibli - a name that draws directly from Maserati's rich and successful tradition.
Finally, the name of the sports luxury SUV that will spring from the Kubang concept is Levante - derived from 'Via Emilia Levante' in Bologna where, almost a century ago, the Maserati brothers dreamt of the company that today still bears their name. Considering that Levante will be marketed in 2014, the year Maserati will celebrate its Centennial, it seems a very apt name and, in many ways, a bridge to Maserati's future.


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Seriously, PD, you think that was worth your readers' time?
Foremost, my condolences to this gentleman. But wasn't he identified all weekend as a 50-something-year-old Geneva resident named "Bradshaw?"
Excellent story. Thank you.
The local media, including Pluto, don't like the selection of Waiters because they were oblivious to him until the last 24 hours. Go to the top of this page and do a keyword search for "Dion Waiters." Meanwhile, the national mock drafts all had him rated immediately after the usual prospects and the second-best shooting guard behind Beal. Ignorance-bred contempt.
Nice story, thank you.
Haha, Gomes > Youkilis. Yeah, OK. Maybe in an MMA ring (if that).
I find it hard to believe the summer of 1988 didn't make this list, if not top it. I don't recall it raining much the entire season, let alone 15-day stretches.
Olympia on Pearl Road in Strongsville.
Ms. Berger DuMound, if you get the chance, could you please inquire and relay as to why they no longer perform the 21-gun salute at the Adams Street Cemetery? They used to but have not in at least each of the last two years. Something seems missing without it. Beautiful ceremony and cemetery nonetheless. God bless the students who researched the deceased and attached in-depth bios to some of the gravesites.
This is it -- two agate-material briefs on the marathon and 10K?
I'm beyond confused. Those parking lots were fenced off the first two weeks of youth soccer (when I was there) and again last week (according to my wife, who was there). There was no place but the street to park. "Preference" had nothing to do with anyone's decision. And why wouldn't people park in the designated lots after doing so every other year?
Nice article, Laura.
I'm behind Zach Reed 100 percent in this initiative.
Great stuff, T. Reed.
So says the genius who made this post just 48 hours ago:
I love the Buckeyes..... Sullinger Cavs please stay away from .... he has not that great of verticle and may not be able to deal ...Boozer/Barkely style.... i maybe mistaken ... We need Scorers that can get in the lane and dunk.... alley oop...and has a good out side jump shot ...
I'm thinking Brandon Hunter more than Big Baby Davis.
Who is "hating?" After watching him play, and after watching the NBA for nearly 40 years, I simply don't think he has NBA talent. You're more than welcome to disagree.
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The Association of State Dam Safety Officials seeks statements of qualifications and proposals from engineering firms, research groups, academics, and others to develop and conduct technical seminars on structural behavior monitoring for dam safety. Proposals are due Jan. 5.
The three-day course is to provide state dam safety personnel and other students with a comprehensive understanding of geotechnical, hydraulic, and structural measurement devices that can be used in monitoring of dam performance. ASDSO said it intends for the new technical seminar to be conducted twice in 2009 -- once in the eastern U.S. and once in the western U.S.
The instructor will provide all speakers and technical materials, including a course manual to be developed according to ASDSO guidelines. Selections will be announced in February. Once a proposal is selected, ASDSO will contract with instructors to plan, develop, and conduct the seminar. The contractor will have about five months to develop the seminar and training materials.
ASDSO is responsible for advertising the seminar, for registration, and for coordinating site arrangements.
Technical seminars form one component of the Technical Training Program, administered by ASDSO and funded by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Federal Emergency Management Agency's National Dam Safety Program.
The solicitation can be obtained from ASDSO's Internet site, www.damsafety.org, under Conferences &Training and ASDSO Technical Seminars. Proposals are due Jan. 5 to ASDSO, Advanced Technical Seminar, 450 Old Vine St., Second Floor, Lexington, KY 40507. For information, contact Susan Sorrell, (1) 859-257-5140; E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Dean of Students
Theft Notice
Over the past month, there have been 11 reports of thefts occurring in various campus
locations such as the Recreation Center, Student Center, and Library. This includes
things like cell phones, iPads, Hornet Cards, cash, and other personal belongings.
Most commonly, these incidents involve students, faculty, or staff leaving personal
items unsecured and unattended (such as underneath a sweatshirt on a bench or in an
unlocked locker). This allows a perpetrator to easily pick up the personal item and
walk away unnoticed. Please be vigilant in securing your personal property.
Do not leave personal items unattended or unsecured.
When using facilities such as the Rec Center, utilize a lock on a locker.
Where possible, leave valuable items in your locked dorm room, office or car.
Medical Withdrawals
Students may voluntarily withdraw from the University for any reason prior to the
midpoint of the term. After the midpoint of the term, the Vice President of Student
and Enrollment Services may grant a voluntary medical withdrawal to students who are
able to demonstrate medical or psychological reasons that prevent or detrimentally
interfere with the student's ability to continue studies at the time. Except under
unusual circumstances, withdrawals for medical or psychological reasons must be made
for all courses. An approved medical or psychological withdrawal will result in a
grade of W for all courses. Requests for voluntary medical withdrawals must be made
within the term that the withdrawal is requested.
Medical withdrawals will be granted for a specified period and return may be contingent on the satisfaction of certain conditions. If applicable, a student withdrawal agreement may specify the reasons for and period of withdrawal, detail any conditions necessary for reinstatement, and provide that a hold will be placed on the student's registration status until the student is eligible for reinstatement.
Due to state and federal laws regarding various funding sources, the student may or may not be eligible for any monetary refund. If a withdrawal is granted, the Federal government may require a recalculation of financial aid eligibility.