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NVIDIA Updates GPU Roadmap; Unveils Pascal Architecture For 2016by Ryan Smith on 3/26/2014 2:30 AM EST
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blau808 - Wednesday, March 26, 2014 - linkLooks like I'm waiting until 2016 to buy a new card. Reply
blanarahul - Wednesday, March 26, 2014 - linkBig Maxwell will have Denver Cores, right? Reply
darkich - Wednesday, March 26, 2014 - linkDenver cores are for the SoC (Tegra) Maxwell only.
Little Maxwell actually Reply
hpglow - Wednesday, March 26, 2014 - linkSince maxwell's inception Nvidia has been touting that it would have a Denver core so I hope they ship the mid to upper end products as promised. Reply
extide - Wednesday, March 26, 2014 - linkThat hasn't been on any recent roadmap though.., so basically... don;t expect it to happen. Reply
Frenetic Pony - Wednesday, March 26, 2014 - link"GPU manufacturer proprietary bull! Come get it while it's hot, while it's steaming!"
MMMM, Mantle, this and G-Sync, proprietary fixed function raytracing... It's like the "good" old days of Glyde all over again. Reply
CiccioB - Thursday, March 27, 2014 - linkThat's natural when "standards" evolve too slowly or can't adress specific issues.
In this case PCIe4.0 seems to be too slow.
I really wonder how Intel is going to accept NVLink. IMHO they are going to implement it only on server motherboards/chipsets while it will never arrive in the mainstram market. If others are going to use NVLink while Intel does not may be a problem for Intel in HPC market, where its solutions may be easily replaced by much more powerful (and efficient) solutions.
In the mainstream market, on the other hand, NVLink will open the doors to a situation where x86 CPUs may be put aside with respect to the performances obtained using external modules mounted on that NVLink bus. x86 will just be useful to run Windows and nothing more, as the main part of computational work may be delivered to those external components (that may be GPUs but also other kind of non-Intel HW, which could clearly also become a problem for Phi Xeon). Reply
camara - Sunday, March 30, 2014 - linkLooks like Intel's plan is to use OPCIe which is expected to have 1.6 Tbs which gives 100 GB/s bidirectional link. Cables and MXC connectors for this interface are already being tested and slated for production Q3 2014. Reply
BMNify - Sunday, March 30, 2014 - linkalready stated below but you are also forgetting to mention this new MXC connector for the data center is actually made to support up to 64 fibers, At a speed of 25G each, (as per a single QPI link) it can carry 1.6 Tbps of data which is 200GB.... but as far as we are aware right now the OPCIe module interfaces after the QPI links so Intel will need to include a massive amount of extra QPI links to cover this "up to" 100GB><100GB potential...
as already said Intel should probably invent a matching OQPI link to sit beside the existing slow QPI links for backward compatibility or use cheap 3rd party ARM 2Tb/s (256GB) NOC SOC IP :) unlikely OC Reply
Ian Cutress - Wednesday, March 26, 2014 - linkI like how NVIDIA adjusted the graph scale from DP GFlops/watt to SGEMM/W (normalised) in order to give it an exponential curve. They could just give us a straight line with each year and the product planned and we would still be happy.
But it looks like GDC 2015 and 2016 are going to be interesting - NVIDIA will have to start teaching people how to use NVLink and Stacked DRAM better in code before the products actually hit the market. They will also have to pair up with a graphics engine to show it off on day one. Will be interesting to find out if the PCIe/NVLink transition is seemless or you have to code for it - having access to more bandwidth could change the coding paradigm. Reply
VivekGowri - Wednesday, March 26, 2014 - linkI'm glad I wasn't the only one who noticed the change in how the graph was scaled. Subtlely manipulative. It's the little things, I guess. Reply
spikebike - Wednesday, March 26, 2014 - linkWell actually in this case I applaud Nvidia. GFlops/watt is pretty useless. Often it assumes everything in a register, no dependent ops, no cache misses, perfect instruction mix, no memory access, etc. Basically a useless number, kinda like bragging about RPM instead of top speed in a car.
SGEMM/watt on the other hand is a more useful number. It's more directly related to real world performance. Granted it would be nice to know the size of the matrices involved.
The sneakier change in the graph is that the first is log based and the second is linear. Reply
Mr Perfect - Wednesday, March 26, 2014 - linkSo what is SGEMM? I tried Googleing the term and just wound up with a bunch of Linear Algebra results. Reply
calkapokole - Wednesday, March 26, 2014 - linkSEGEMM - Single-precision General Matrix Multiplication. Reply
Yojimbo - Wednesday, March 26, 2014 - linkIt's not a sneaky change on the graph, it's just a change between the two graphs. A year ago they chose to present it on a logarithmic scale and this year they chose to present a similar graph on a linear scale. I doubt whomever made the new graph thought "people are going to compare last year's graph with this year's graph and think that performance increases (including past performance increases) are accelerated now compared to before". Reply
TylerGrunter - Wednesday, March 26, 2014 - linkSorry, but the change in the curve is not due to moving from DP GFlops/watt to SGEMM/W, but from the move from a logaritmic scaling on the vertical axis to a linear one.
Didn´t you realzed of that one? Reply
patrickjp93 - Sunday, June 01, 2014 - linkThat's already begun at CUDA-based universities. UC Berkley, Stanford, MIT, and RIT already have sample chips we're working with. Reply
Mr.T - Wednesday, March 26, 2014 - linkI love hearing about cool, far off features... But damn it! All I wanted to know was when "High Performance" Maxwell (GTX 800 series, presumably) would drop.
GTX 680 came out March 2012 (Kepler GK104)
GTX 780 came out May 2013 ("Big" Kepler GK110)
But then, GTX 750 just came out (Maxwell GM107, but still being made on the "old" 28nm)
They can't possibly wait a whole other year without a new flagship part...?
GTX 880 ? (Maxwell GM11x?)
Just waiting for 20nm I hope... Reply
sascha - Wednesday, March 26, 2014 - linkAnother GK110 card just got released with the GTX Titan Z so I doubt NVIDIA will replace the GK110 within the next ~6 months. Reply
Yojimbo - Wednesday, March 26, 2014 - linkI don't think you can conclude that, sascha. The GTX Titan Z is a very specialized card. No Kepler-based cards like it existed for the entire duration of the availability of Kepler-based cards until now. I believe NVidia also recently announced a Fermi-based mobile part, so they don't seem to be completely against introducing new cards based on older architectures in special situations. Reply
JBVertexx - Wednesday, March 26, 2014 - linkLack of competition, they're essentially able to take the foot off the development gas pedal. Reply
Mr Perfect - Wednesday, March 26, 2014 - linkWell, that and a lack of a node shrink. We've been stuck on 28nm for what? Almost three years now? Reply
extide - Wednesday, March 26, 2014 - linkUhhh... not really... we aren't talking about Intel vs AMD here, The R9 290x is very competitive. Reply
jasonelmore - Thursday, March 27, 2014 - linkPerformance per watt man. mobile outsells desktops 10:1 Reply
Lonyo - Wednesday, March 26, 2014 - linkDid NV just talk generally about NVLink or was there an HPC context to the discussions?
Presumably if they are still supporting PCIe they are going for totally different cards for HPC/etc use vs standard personal computers? Maybe with an eventual long term desktop transition to NVLink if it ever makes sense. Reply
Ryan Smith - Wednesday, March 26, 2014 - linkThe context for NVLink is almost entirely HPC. There is the potential to use it elsewhere, but at the start its best chances are in custom HPC hardware. Reply
Yojimbo - Wednesday, March 26, 2014 - linkDoesn't it seem difficult to imagine NVLink to be used in maintstream PC/notebook gaming systems without Intel being on board? It seems either multi-GPU setups would become mainstream, NVidia would have a secondary CPU across the PCI-E bus from the primary CPU, or NVidia would attempt to replace the x86 CPU entirely, somehow, in order for NVLink to be used for GPU-GPU or GPU-CPU communication in mainstream PC/notebook gaming systems without Intel being part of it. Or am I thinking about something incorrectly?
In any case, Intel might look at it as a threat. They probably want to control all infrastructure themselves. They can't stop IBM and NVidia from hammering out an effective computing platform in the HPC space that may eventually beg to be brought to more mainstream computing. Maybe, if the system is effective, they might have to copy it with Phi (or perhaps they are already developing something in parallel), assuming Phi is competitive with GPUs.
When AMD made HyperTransport, Intel didn't use it, they developed QPI, isn't it? Reply
BMNify - Thursday, March 27, 2014 - linkyou are right unless they have a way to bypass the limited QPI and HyperTransport interconnects to get more data throughput , remember that's at Intel and AMD's whim
QPI "Intel describes the data throughput (in GB/s) by counting only the 64-bit data payload in each 80-bit "flit". However, Intel then doubles the result because the unidirectional send and receive link pair can be simultaneously active. Thus, Intel describes a 20-lane QPI link pair (send and receive) with a 3.2 GHz clock as having a data rate of 25.6 GB/s. A clock rate of 2.4 GHz yields a data rate of 19.2 GB/s. More generally, by this definition a two-link 20-lane QPI transfers eight bytes per clock cycle, four in each direction.
The rate is computed as follows:
3.2 GHz
× 2 bits/Hz (double data rate)
× 16(20) (data bits/QPI link width)
× 2 (unidirectional send and receive operating simultaneously)
÷ 8 (bits/byte)
= 25.6 GB/s"
"HyperTransport supports an autonegotiated bit width, ranging from 2 to 32 bits per link; there are two unidirectional links per HyperTransport bus. With the advent of version 3.1, using full 32-bit links and utilizing the full HyperTransport 3.1 specification's operating frequency, the theoretical transfer rate is 25.6 GB/s (3.2 GHz × 2 transfers per clock cycle × 32 bits per link) per direction, or 51.2 GB/s aggregated throughput, making it faster than most existing bus standard for PC workstations and servers as well as making it faster than most bus standards for high-performance computing and networking.
Links of various widths can be mixed together in a single system configuration as in one 16-bit link to another CPU and one 8-bit link to a peripheral device, which allows for a wider interconnect between CPUs, and a lower bandwidth interconnect to peripherals as appropriate. It also supports link splitting, where a single 16-bit link can be divided into two 8-bit links. The technology also typically has lower latency than other solutions due to its lower overhead."
from the open PPC IBM initiative they can make and use any new NOC (network On Chip) they like or take another's generic NOC IP to get near their real 250GB/sec over 8 links NVLink block, ARM have generic IP for a 256GB/sec NOC (2Tb/s) for instance, as does MoSys
"MoSys today announced the architecture for its third generation Bandwidth Engine® family, featuring the industry's highest serial throughput and memory access rate, optimized efficiency and scheduling for multi-core processing, and expanded multi-cycle embedded macro functions. MoSys today announced the architecture for its third generation Bandwidth Engine® family, featuring the industry's highest serial throughput and memory access rate, optimized efficiency and scheduling for multi-core processing, and expanded multi-cycle embedded macro functions. MoSys today announced the architecture for its third generation Bandwidth Engine® family, featuring the industry's highest serial throughput and memory access rate, optimized efficiency and scheduling for multi-core processing, and expanded multi-cycle embedded macro functions. MoSys today announced the architecture for its third generation Bandwidth Engine® family, featuring the industry's highest serial throughput and memory access rate, optimized efficiency and scheduling for multi-core processing, and expanded multi-cycle embedded macro functions, as does MoSys today announced the architecture for its third generation Bandwidth Engine® family, featuring the industry's highest serial throughput and memory access rate, optimized efficiency and scheduling for multi-core processing, and expanded multi-cycle embedded macro functions. "
OC non of this matter's unless they have a way to interface the x86 directly over a new internal NOC on the CPU's die bypassing the QuickPath Interconnect,the even slower DMI 2.0, the HyperTransport, and the PCI-E bus.... theres a reason they are working with a CPU vendor that can add the needed modern NOC they required to push these data rates to the cores...
unless Ryan, annand or anyone else can say how they will add this new NVLink to intel chips and keep that up to 256GB/sec potential ! Reply
BMNify - Thursday, March 27, 2014 - linkoops, sorry for the bad C&P, by the way Ryan, any idea Why they went for HBM and not the better lower power and more configurable HMC on HMC on substrate so early on. Reply
dj_aris - Wednesday, March 26, 2014 - linkNvidia are a bit over-confident I think. NVlink is great and all but who is going to support them? I think that such a drastic change in motherboard design isn't going to be allowed by chipset providers (Intel wouldn't even allow them to build chipset beyond Core 2 Duo and AMD, well why would they change their chipsets design for a competitor's plan?) PCs indeed need to shrink (all-in-one motherboards are obviously the right direction) but not that soon. Maybe Intel and AMD should create the new PCIe connector, maybe MXM-type. Reply
BillyONeal - Wednesday, March 26, 2014 - link@dk: This is probably designed for more "custom" designs like GRID or HTPC applications. Most consumer applications don't have many many GPUs installed in a single system. (If you look at the block diagram above the NVLINK interconnects are cross GPU in the 2016 timeframe)
And hey; if it doesn't work it doesn't work. Reply
l.set - Wednesday, March 26, 2014 - linkNvidia aren't over-confident at all, this helps to solve a massive issue in the mainstream server market. Getting GPU density (in terms of size and linking them together) in normal x86 servers is a big problem and Nvidia are the only company really doing anything in this space. There is hardly any support for AMD cards in servers and they don't have anything like vGPU or GRID (AMD are also saying goodbye to their x86 server market share so it's really only Intel and the server OEMs that Nvidia needs to convince. IBM are already onboard by the sounds of things).
Servers have already shrunk and blades use this style of mezzanine connector for it's daughter boards. If AMD aren't going to do anything about giving my virtual servers and virtual desktops the graphics grunt they need then Nvidia can pretty much do what they like. Reply
Yorgos - Wednesday, March 26, 2014 - linkAt least you can search wikipedia before you even post something, but it seems people don't even bother to do that, they just like to write the fairy tale they have in their head.
Anyway, I am glad to hear that amd doesn't have vGPU, I wonder how I am using it.
On the other hand companies are pushing amd based solutions with Seattle or Warsaw cpus and some of them with the blessings of Arm(whatever this means).
GRID, hmmm..... what can someone say about GRID, well someone can say it is as successful as onLive.
The cuda passion is fading away by the time and openCL is gaining ground in every application.
Server market is not favoring proprietary standards with doubtful development and support, unlike open-standards. Reply
l.set - Wednesday, March 26, 2014 - linkYou know what, I'll bite :)
AMD's x86 server market share is shrinking and has been shrinking for a long time when it comes to off the shelf servers that 95% of businesses run on. This is fact. If AMD can take back market share with Warsaw and push ARM business as well then that's awesome. More competition is always welcome and is better for the customer. However my point was that Nvidia doesn't have to convince AMD to include NVLink in anything because they don't dictate enough of the market for it to be a problem.
You are glad AMD doesn't have something like vGPU? Seriously? Just because you don't use it doesn't mean this isn't a big deal to a lot of other people. You can't vmotion/live migrate a VM that is tied down to a passed through hardware device, but you can if it's virtualised. And no AMD doesn't do true virtualised GPUs, they rely on RemoteFX.
As for GRID, it's working it's way into a market that has large project lifecycles. There a lot of seriously large oil, gas, architect and design firms that are currently in proof of concept stages for GRID at the moment and are taking it very seriously. It's not a one size fits all but it's proving to be really popular at the moment (with my customers at least).
The server market favours what it favours, so we'll wait and see, but I rather put my money on Nvidia than AMD when it came to the server GPU space. Reply
phoenix_rizzen - Wednesday, March 26, 2014 - linkYou need to slow down, and actually read what he wrote:
"Anyway, I am glad to hear that amd doesn't have vGPU, I wonder how I am using it."
Note the sarcasm in the first part of the sentence, and the acknowledgement of the feature in the second part. IOW, he's using the vGPU features of an AMD chip right now. Reply
l.set - Thursday, March 27, 2014 - linkI noted the sarcasm, but the other way around. Maybe because AMD doesn't have a form of functionality that is same as vGPU that's being implemented by Nvidia. I'm willing to admit if I'm massively wrong here, but the only way to get shared graphics using AMD cards through any of the main hypervisors at the moment is through stuff like RemoteFX or vSGA. Reply
MrSpadge - Wednesday, March 26, 2014 - linkThe first version of NVLink is "just" attached to a PCIe crossbar (like PLX bridges), so there's no need for explicit support in the chipset. Current ones wouldn't know what to do with this bandwidth anyway. Reply
BMNify - Thursday, March 27, 2014 - linkthat's like saying plug in a GFx card to USB1 logic IC and then plug that into the USB3.1 slot , it may not be "explicit " but you know full well its slowing it down to a crawl Reply
firstname.lastname@example.com - Wednesday, March 26, 2014 - linkTo downplay the slow progression of PCIe over the next decade, and failure to acknowledge the vast disparity between GPU bandwidth needs as compared with rudimentary PCIe and CPU communications, would be a big mistake. Intel cannot afford not to participate because of the risks of competing CPUs rapidly overtaking the capability of modern PCs. If Intel does not provide a high performance CPU link then GPU manufacturers will simply add this to ARM, with competing PC platforms using ARM processors. The risk to Intel is really enormous. The advent of ARM processors running windows 8 as an alternative to INTEL and AMD is just around the corner. GPUs will have their high speed BUS or all hell will ensue. Reply
andrewaggb - Wednesday, March 26, 2014 - linkall I can think is history repeats itself.... we had isa (general), vesa local bus (mostly video cards), pci replaced it (general), we got agp (video cards), replaced by pci-e (general), if we get nvlink (video cards), presumably it will be replaced by something general again. but maybe not. the days of add-in cards are quickly going away, maybe specialized busses for the remaining few add-on devices will be the future. Reply
Ktracho - Wednesday, March 26, 2014 - linkI think this opens up the possibility of ARM with NVlink on the low end of the HPC market and IBM's Power (also with NVlink) on the high end for HPC, with Intel relegated to running virtual desktops and other server tasks that don't require high end computing or high-performance graphics. My prediction is that Intel will create something like NVlink, but incompatible in some way to try to shut NVIDIA out, which could make ARM-based desktops a threat in the PC gaming market. Reply
BMNify - Thursday, March 27, 2014 - linkIntel® have a new Silicon Photonics Module; called the "Optical PCI Express" so that will make an appearance some time sooner than later, however as far as im aware right now, it still interfaces after the QPI links and so is restricted to the actual data throughput before it even starts , Intel need to move over to the industry NOC (Network On Chip).
now an optical OQPI might be nice to invent and integrate on chip ASAP and don't forget to include as a generic thing many "Dark optical OQPI" links that can be activated as the demands require it in the mass market Consumer/SOHO if you want to stop the x86 slide and perhaps increase demands and mass market growth again Reply
xaml - Sunday, March 30, 2014 - linkPerhaps off-topic, however I wonder still, how many gigatransfers worth of junk might one receive by using an email address as a display name? Reply
Yojimbo - Wednesday, March 26, 2014 - linkThis was an high-performance computing presentation. I think IBM and NVidia are probably planning on using NVLink in their upcoming supercomputer partnership: http://www.anandtech.com/show/7522/ibm-and-nvidia-... Reply
iwod - Wednesday, March 26, 2014 - linkStill no Concrete answer whether NVlink was an implementation of IBM's new Power 8 interconnect ( which means it is opened for competitor ) or something entirly for Nvidia themselves. Reply
Ryan Smith - Wednesday, March 26, 2014 - linkIt's entirely NVIDIA's and was developed in-house, from what we're being told. Competitors could potentially use it, but it would be under whatever licensing terms NVIDIA decides to offer. Reply
Jon Tseng - Wednesday, March 26, 2014 - linkIs NVLink conceptually similar to Carrell's old Sideport? (apart from being a damn sight faster)
Or am I mixing apples with oranges? Reply
Ryan Smith - Wednesday, March 26, 2014 - linkI would say it's similar in that they're both point-to-point GPU connections. However we don't know anything about the technical aspects of Sideport (e.g. signaling). Reply
MrSpadge - Wednesday, March 26, 2014 - linkImpressive! This seems to be nVidias answer to HSA and performance scaling with multiple GPUs. If you can't get into CPUs (well, not all of them) at least connect your GPUs as if they were directly integrated into the CPU. A significant advantage over HSA-style CPUs is that using NVLink one could more easily scale to more GPUs with higher power and cooling requirements. Reply
sascha - Wednesday, March 26, 2014 - linkI hope NVLink finds its way into desktop systems in 2016 and not later. Reply
Guspaz - Wednesday, March 26, 2014 - linkThis will probably never make it into consumer parts. Consumer use isn't currently maxing out PCIe 3.0, and PCIe 4.0 will have been available for some time by the time Pascal ships. As long as the current trends continue, PCIe will continue to supply more bandwidth than consumers need indefinitely.
I'm not saying NVLink is a bad thing, just that people should understand that it's strictly for enterprise use, since it won't make sense for consumers any time soon. Reply
sascha - Thursday, March 27, 2014 - linkOnce Intel and AMD have heavier GPUs on their CPU die NVIDIA has no chance to survive in the consumer business even with PCIe 4.0. At some point this needs to be in desktops and notebooks otherwise they will be history. Reply
BMNify - Thursday, March 27, 2014 - linkyour assuming OC that the new Open PPC initiative and ARM NOC (Network On Chip) IP don't migrate to the desktop and laptop , it could be fun seeing ppc with updated altivec SIMD laptops again that aren't apple branded. Reply
BMNify - Thursday, March 27, 2014 - link"Consumer use isn't currently maxing out PCIe 3.0" dont keep repeating the MEME , its not true, try copying back your gfx data to the CPU for more processing (such as UHD editing etc) and see its data throughput drop through the floor.
A feasability study purportedly showed that 16 GT/s can be achieved ... You'd be looking at about 31.5GB/s per direction for a PCIe 4.0 x16 slot.
the pcisig and its generic interface relations Ethernet sig etc are no longer fit for purpose when all the low power ARM vendors are able to use up to 2Tb/s (256MegaBytes/s) per NOC for minimal cost today... Reply
BMNify - Thursday, March 27, 2014 - linkoops that sound be 2Tb/s= 256GigaBytes/s Reply
jamescox - Sunday, March 30, 2014 - linkThis is more needed as a link between GPUs. Dual gpu cards at the moment are using completely separate memory which will mostly duplicate the contents. With a super high-speed interconnect, they could make the memory bus narrower, and allow access to memory attached to other GPUS via the high speed interconnect. This is exactly how AMD Opteron processors work; they use HyperTransport connections to share memory attached to all other processors. Intel essentially copied this with QPI later. GPUs need a significantly higher speed interconnect to share memory. For the new Titan Z card, they could have just used something like 4 GB on a 256-bit bus on each card and allowed both GPUs to access the memory via a high-speed link. For games, the 12 GB on this card is a waste since it will really just look like 6 GB since it it independent; there is not a fast enough link to allow the memory to be shared, so each GPU will need its own copy.
This becomes even more evident when you have the memory stacked on the same chip. The whole graphics card shrinks to a single chip + power delivery system. The only off chip interconnect will be the high speed interface. The memory will be stacked with on-die interconnect. This will allow a large number of pins to be devoted to the communications links. AMD could implement something similar using next generation HyperTransport. It is currently at 25.6 GB/s (unidirectional) at 32-bit. Just 4 such links would allow over 100 GB/s read. For Intel and AMD, PCI-express will become somewhat irrelevant. Both companies will be pursuing similar technology, except, they will be integrating the CPU and the GPU on a single chip. The PCI-express link will only be needed for communication with the IO subsystem. Nvidia could integrate an ARM cpu, but they don't have a competitive AMD64 cpu, that I know of.
I have been wondering for a long time when we would get a new system form factor. The current set-up doesn't make much sense once the cpu and gpu merge. System memory is not fast enough to support a gpu, so really, the cpu needs to move on-die with gpu. APU pci-express cards would not work since pci-express does not have sufficient bandwidth to allow gpus to share memory; graphics memory is in the 100s of GB/s rather than 10s of GB/s for current system memory. APU cards/modules will need much faster interconnect, and NVidia seems to want to invent their own rather than use some industry standard. Reply
TeXWiller - Wednesday, March 26, 2014 - linkThe Pascal prototype is a test vehicle, not a prototype of an actual implementation. The size of the card do remind of those ARM blade server nodes on a backend, however. Reply
haukionkannel - Wednesday, March 26, 2014 - linkIt is just logical. The NVLink is for servers, so it just make sense to release these at the size of blade server nodes! Reply
BMNify - Thursday, March 27, 2014 - linkactually it makes more sense to make the modules as self contained and small as you can , so many System On SODIMM and System On DIMM to then fit a blade are more viable longer term , today theres far to much metal and not enough processor in these antiquated server farms Reply
iceman-sven - Wednesday, March 26, 2014 - linkIt seems Volta was not ready for 2016 and Nvidia decided to make another Fermi family GPU: Maxwell v2 aka Pascal. Maybe Pascal will see the light a little sooner. Begin/mid 2016 and Volta will fellow mid/late 2017.
Dam, as dual Titan user I wanted to skip Maxwell and go straight to Volta. So last Fermi or waiting a little longer for Volta? Reply
dstarr3 - Wednesday, March 26, 2014 - linkThis "stacked DRAM," is that another name for this exciting Hybrid Memory Cube technology I've been reading up on lately? Reply
BMNify - Thursday, March 27, 2014 - linkapparently they have opted for the HBM (High Bandwidth Memory) rather than the lower power HMC (Hybrid Memory Cube) which is odd this early on given the rapid 17 month turn around on WideIO and HMC industry certification, and the fact both these two are more versatile and generic longer term. Reply
escape2mars - Wednesday, March 26, 2014 - linkI'd pick one up at $2500 but at $3k I'd rather pick up 2xTitan Blacks. Reply
jasonelmore - Thursday, March 27, 2014 - linkSo your saying the revolutionary game changing Pascal, with is huge bandwidth increase and crazy interconnects will only be used in servers?! not what people buying gaming video cards want to hear. we want this shit in graphics cards so we can get a 1st ever 5X performance increase over the previous generation Reply
Homeles - Thursday, March 27, 2014 - linkNo, that's not what he said. What he's saying is that the nVlink will likely only be used in servers/workstations. Reply
mapesdhs - Thursday, March 27, 2014 - link
5X speedup over a previous product? Never going to happen. It makes no business sense
to release a new product which improves the tech that much all in one go. New products
will sell just fine with only low-tens-of-percent improvement, or 2X speedup on the high-end
at the most. If a company has a tech that could provide a 5X speedup, they're more likely
to roll it out in stages because that makes more money. The only thing which would speed
it up is competition. This is basically why we've had no new decent desktop CPU improvements
since SB, because Intel doesn't have to bother (no competition).
Much as one might to see giant leaps in technology overnight, they really don't happen,
usually for business reasons. Solid state polymer designs could have been used a long
time ago to offer huge I/O speedups, but that never happened.
Think of it this way: if NVIDIA released a new GPU today that was 30% faster than a
780Ti, would it sell ok? You betcha. So that's how it works, incremental improvements
over time because that makes more money. It would be great if just for once a major
player in the tech space put the greed of money people aside for once and did release
something that really put the cat among the pidgeons, but it's unlikely.
Ian. Reply
Yojimbo - Saturday, March 29, 2014 - link"Think of it this way: if NVIDIA released a new GPU today that was 30% faster than a
780Ti, would it sell ok? You betcha."
No, NVidia's new chip would not sell well if AMD released a cost-effective chip that was 3.8 times faster than NVidia's new chip. Reply
Homeles - Thursday, March 27, 2014 - linkSomeone could probably do a die size estimation and a rough estimate on the stacked DRAM quantity. Reply


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After more than 20 years, and 82 issues, Sir Mervyn King has delivered his last Inflation Report. The transparency and rationality of this innovation has been one of Britain's most important gifts to the world in recent times, even if the UK has not actually been very good at controlling inflation itself since 2008. As its main architect and, in his own words, the UK's "consistent monetary referee", Sir Mervyn deserves great credit. I hope that, in retirement, he will receive it.
The economic message of today's report is a familiar one. Inflation has been revised down so that it is shown to hit the 2 per cent target in two years' time, and real GDP is forecast to recover gradually. Similar forecasts have proven too optimistic in the past, but this time there are clear indications that the Bank will be introducing new forms of policy easing in the next few months, which may underpin the economic recovery.
Following the astonishing arrival of Governor Kuroda in Japan, Mr Carney must be sorely tempted to follow suit in trying to jolt UK economic expectations towards a new equilibrium. He is likely to get plenty of encouragement in this from the chancellor, who emphasised in the Budget that "monetary activism" is a core part of his overall economic strategy.
In fact, Mr Osborne has asked the Bank to focus in the August Inflation Report on how the UK might adopt forward policy guidance, with thresholds, following the example of what the Fed did (successfully) last December. This is an unusually specific request from the Treasury, and even Sir Mervyn seemed sympathetic to this approach today.
In the context of high British inflation, there are serious impediments to repeating the fireworks unleashed by the BoJ, but some progress can be made, Fed-style. What exactly can we expect? Read more


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GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, Germany (Reuters) - Italian Christof Innerhofer secured his third World Cup downhill win of the season when he held off a trio of Austrians on the German Kandahar piste on Saturday.
Dubbed "Winnerhofer" when he won the Super-G world title in Garmisch-Partenkirchen two years ago, Innerhofer lived up to his nickname by taking victory in one minute and 37.83 seconds,
On a course he relishes, the Italian followed up wins at Beaver Creek and Wengen by finishing 0.12 ahead of Georg Streitberger.
Klaus Kroell was 0.16 off the pace, followed by Hannes Reichelt and Norway's world champion Aksel Lund Svindal.
Innerhofer, who also won a downhill bronze medal on the same piste in 2011, took advantage of his knowledge of the terrain and improving visibility conditions to bag the sixth World Cup laurels of his career.
"It's like coming back home for me. It's really nice to return to a spot you love so much. It was important to show that two years after my world title, I'm still as good as I was then," he said.
"It was also important to react with a victory straight after the world championships which didn't turn out the way I wanted,".
At the worlds in Schladming, Austria earlier this month, Innerhofer was 14th in the downhill, 7th in the super-G and did not finish the super combined.
The battle for the discipline's crystal globe is extremely tight with two races left.
Svindal is on 359 points, 10 ahead of Italy's Dominik Paris and 15 ahead of Innerhofer, who lost vital points when he was forced to start the Kitzbuehel downhill in 46th position after ignoring a yellow flag in practice.
"I lost a lot of points in Kitzbuehel but I'm not the kind of person who looks back. I'm now setting my sights on Kvitfjell next week," Innerhofer said.
The men's program continues in Garmisch-Partenkirchen on Sunday with a giant slalom.
Reporting by Manuele Lang, editing by Justin Palmer


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And there are jobs out there. The Canadian Nurses Association predicts a shortage of some 60,000 registered nurses by 2022
This is the first in a series of stories looking at specific jobs, with their qualifications, descriptions, responsibilities and current salaries.
The Job:
Registered nurse
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The Salary:
$64,000 a year to more than $90,000 a year, not including overtime.
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Education needed:
Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BScN).
Tuition for four years, which includes the specialized nursing program portion, ranges from $24,000 to $30,000.
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By the numbers:
As of 2011, there were 360,572 regulated nurses working in Canada, which includes 270,724 registered nurses, 84,587 licensed practical nurses and about 5,200 registered psychiatric nurses, according to the Canadian Institute for Health Information.
There is a growing shortage of nurses, as more of them retire and the population ages. The Canadian Nurses Association predicts a shortage of some 60,000 registered nurses by 2022. In 2011, the average age of a registered nurse was 46, according to the CIHI. A report in the journal Health Affairs says nurses, on average, retire around age 56, compared with the overall Canadian work force at age 62.
The Description:
There are few professions that deal as directly with matters of life and death as nursing.
Nurses are there when you're born, when your children are born, and in many cases when you or a loved one dies.
Nurses are caregivers, but they also act as counsellors, teachers and advocates for patients in hospitals and community health centres in towns, cities and remote locations around the country.
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The Challenges:
Nursing is a physically and emotionally demanding profession. Nurses are on their feet all day, they work long shifts, including overnights, and they have to deal with sick people who complain a lot.
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Why they do it:
"Nurses are really that crux of the expected and unexpected life events, and helping people to cope as best as they can," said Rhonda Seidman-Carlson, president of the Registered Nurses Association of Ontario.
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The Misconceptions:
Ms. Seidman-Carlson said one of the biggest misconceptions about nurses is that their work is dictated by doctors. In fact, she said, about 80 per cent of what nurses do is self-directed. "Nurses are self-regulated, autonomous, independent practitioners," she said.
Want to read more stories from our salaries series? Click here.
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Ashton Kutcher Gossip
Ashton Kutcher gossip, latest news, photos, and video.
Smutty Social Media, April 12, 2016
Ashton Kutcher has been active on social media for The Ranch, so I Googled a synopsis. It's a Netflix sitcom about brothers trying to run a… ranch. I'll get to it when I clean out my PVR as I'm currently behind on Jane the Virgin, The Path, Better Call Saul, The Magicians – TV is probably one of the few places Ashton has to wait in line. Full Story
Mila & Ashton at Kimmel
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No Strings Attached was on one of the movie channels the other night. I can't not watch it. Ashton Kutcher is a terrible actor. And he's terrible in this movie. Like when he tells Natalie Portman at the end that this is it and she can't be f-cking around with his feelings anymore, I'm into it, the way you're into romantic comedies and you feel compelled to want the knots in your stomach to release for a happy ending, but at the same time, I am dying for the art of acting, watching him kill the craft. Full Story
Russell Brand on the "vapid, vacuous life" of Katy Perry
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Russell Brand has a new documentary coming out called BRAND: A Second Coming. The trailer is below. And everyone's talking about how he talks about his failed marriage to Katy Perry, specifically about their lifestyle and how intolerable it was to maintain a relationship under the duress of fame and fortune. Full Story
Smutty Social Media, Thursday August 20, 2015
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Karlie Kloss was at the airport and took a photo of some of the September issues – she has two covers. She also tagged the magazines and the women in the photos – Oprah, Demi Lovato, Salma Hayek, Taylor Swift. You know who was omitted? Katy Perry. Don't these "squad goal feminists" know anything? That just makes you look petty. Full Story
Smutty Social Media, Wednesday May 20, 2015
James Franco is a teacher at USC? I'd take his class. Come on, so would you. And I'd never skip out or go to class with wet hair. just finished my 3rd year teaching at USC graduate film.❤ Great Students, Great Program. Look out for their adaptation of my book "Actors Anonymous" next year. It stars scott haze, Eric Roberts, Keegan Allen, and me. @keenone @scott_haze Full Story
Scott Eastwood's gossip delivery
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Normally the way it works, for legitimate stars, is that we're the ones digging for gossip about them. And then there are those who do the work for you. Literally. The 2015 word for that is "thirsty". And who's thirstier right now than Scott Eastwood? Scott was on Watch What Happens Live with Jon Cryer last night. Full Story
Ashton's private but public love note for Mila
Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis (the Kutchers?) are always telling us how private they are – they issued a baby photo montage when their daughter was born and like to talk about privacy. And how much they dislike the paparazzi, because they just want to be left in peace (courtside at the Lakers game Full Story
Mila adores Ashton courtside
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Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher were at the Laker game the other night. Courtside seats. Only. Obviously. As you can see, she adores him. At least that's what I'm reading on her face. She looks at him like no one could possibly be more interesting, more fascinating, more intelligent… I mean, at this point, what choice do you have? You can't have a baby with someone and think the father of your child is a f-cking idiot, can you? You know what's grossing me out about these shots? It's the way his left arm is hanging between his legs. Full Story
Ashton the Dadsplainer
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Between the Sony hack and the Golden Globes nominations (and snubs), it's been a great week for gossip. So why are we talking about Ashton Kutcher? Oh, right, because he had a baby. Ashton was on Ellen (what was he promoting – the end of his sh-tty ass sexist stupid sitcom?) and the focus of the interview was the baby and how he and Mila take care of the baby. Full Story
Dum-dum Ashton Kutcher thinks smear campaigns are fine
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There's a story that's been blowing up in techie circles this week about ridesharing app Uber and its problematic executives targeting journalists who disagree with them. It goes like this: Sarah Lacy, editor in chief of PandoDaily, a Silicon Valley news site she founded, wrote an article about why she ditched Uber Full Story
Dear Gossips,
Ashton Kutcher's been doing some interviews. Of course, he's being asked about his daughter, Wyatt. And agreeing to talk about his daughter Wyatt. How they chose her name, how he and Mila Kunis don't have a nanny, how they've been figuring out parenthood. Read Full Intro


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Evolution Hoax
A9 TV, 11 September 2012
There is a problem of insincerity among some of our Muslim brothers. They talk about anarchy and terror. "Such and such is on the wrong path," they say. All right, anyone can make mistakes. So establish Islamic Unity so everyone's mistakes can come to an end. That is the complete solution. If you really want to out people's lives right, then establish Islamic Unity. Everyone will then come right. Terror and anarchy will come to an end.In order to see whether scholars are really scholars, first ask them, "How many times have you mentioned Islamic Unity in your life? How many times have you recommended it?" They recommend the headscarf millions of times but ask them how many times they have called for Islamic Unity. They talk about the headscarf from morning to night. But if they talked about Islamic Unity from morning to night, the headscarf issue would have long since been resolved. There would be no problem over people covering their heads or not. But they do not. You must demand Islamic Unity, the greatest obligation of all. And then those who wish to cover up will do so, and those who do not, will not. Let them all dress as they like.
A9 TV, 31 August 2012
The greatest obligation of all is Islamic Unity. That will eliminate all afflictions and sicknesses and problems. There would be no more Assad problem. There would be no more disorder and policy of oppression in Iraq. You would not have this disorder in Libya. There would be no more oppression in Afghanistan. The sufferings in Moro, Chad, Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria would come to an end. There would be no more economic crisis. But they insist on avoiding Islamic Unity and are unwilling even to mention it because if they talk about Islamic Unity they will also have to talk about the Mahdi (pbuh), and since they all make different claims about [being] the Mahdi (pbuh) they are unwilling to speak about it. Don't be afraid. If you are sincere, then speak about Islamic Unity. What kind of Muslim are you? You talk about oppression. But why not about the oppression in the Islamic world? Is Syria the only place where there is oppression? Always Syria, Syria, Syria. They should talk about the whole Islamic world. Does Almighty Allah distinguish between Syria and Iraq in the Qur'an? He always addresses the Ummah, the community of Islam, en masse. Allah speaks to all Muslims. This person Mursi should talk about Islamic Unity. His tongue will not drop off, so he need not fear.
A9 TV, 25 April 2012
The Sunni-Shiite divide is a great tragedy. We are trying to unite them but they are striving to remain disunited. It is very odd. Shiites are radiant Muslims. Why be divided? You share the same kiblah, the same Allah and the same Book. They are scrupulous over prayer and what is lawful and unlawful. Why be divided? They are immaculate people with fear of Allah. Why should people be disunited? "No, we cannot live with Shiites, we must separate." That is ridiculous. They must wish for Islamic Unity. The solution is Islamic Unity. The other is no solution. It will end in disaster. It will lead to division everywhere. It is a huge mistake.
They never speak of Islamic Unity. America looks positively! America should look positively on Islamic Unity. Does America say you are all Muslims, with the same Allah, Book, religion and faith and prophet, so why are you divided? Are the Protestants and Catholics in America divided? Does that happen? Where has such a thing ever been seen? It is extraordinary. Muslims are brothers. They must be united, not divided.
They have begun dividing Shiites and Sunnis with great intensity. They will eventually tell them to attack one another. One attacks the other, and there you have Armageddon, they will say. Muslims will melt down and destroy one another. They will say that Allah inflicted troubles on them. They will say the army of the antichrist has destroyed itself. Some people are walking right into the trap. That is a huge mistake. One must seek to unify. What does our prime minister say? We never discriminate between Alawites and Sunnis. We are all brothers, we are not sectarian, he says. He uses the language of the Mahdi. That is the truth. They must abandon what they are saying.
A9 TV, 3 April 2012
There will be no need for military operation when we have Islamic Union, Turkish-Islamic Union. They will be a deterrent force. For example, what was special about the Prophet Solomon's (pbuh) army? It was a deterrent force. Did the Prophet Solomon (pbuh) shed blood? No. He said he could destroy those opposed to him, and the sight of his power was enough for those opponents. "We had best not get involved. We don't need it. We give in," they would say. Problems will be totally resolved when Turkish-Islamic Union has such a force. Therefore, the best way for Turkey to be powerful in the face of America and Europe is Islamic Union, Turkish-Islamic Union.
A9 TV, 4 April 2012
There is also this weakness when it comes to discussing the End Times and the way of the Mahdi. That is why they never mention Islamic Union. Because they themselves fear the Islam they espouse. It makes them themselves uneasy. They are reluctant to talk about it because they know the other person will not believe them. But after I insisted on the matter and told them all how ÒBediuzzaman says this or that,Ó some of them have very gradually and hesitantly begun talking about Islamic Union. They have drawn strength from me. But their words reflect a rigidity, a weakness of faith, powerlessness, lack of self-confidence and a vagueness and lack of clarity. Their systems are built only on possibilities, in other words. That is probably so they can withdraw in the face of an attack. But we must show them affection. The situation in annoying, but also calls for compassion. Feelings of compassion weigh heavier with me, but they are unable to see the blessing that Allah bestows on them.
A9 TV, 6 March 2012
Many Muslims fail to attach sufficient important to the global reign of Islam. It really is amazing. They genuinely attach importance to prayer, and the hajj, but not to the global reign of the faith. They do not even consider it important for the faith to spread in the regions where they live. Nor among their own families. Yet this is the greatest religious obligation. The Qur'an talks about this from start to finish.
A9 TV, 18 March 2012
The Unity of Islam is just on the step. We will establish a glorious Unity of Islam, insha'Allah but everyone must make effort with their hands, tongues and might, because Allah makes us await it for more rewards. Otherwise He would make it happen right away. One can communicate Islam by speaking, by sending essays to friends, by distributing books, holding conferences or supporting those who organize conferences. Doing nothing but just making some suggestions would not be becoming, insha'Allah. Everyone must render his services. We have five to ten more years. Allah grants that time so that we can receive lots of rewards. Once we receive our rewards, Islam will, under all circumstances, reign, insha'Allah.
A9 TV, 23 February 2012
The Ottoman Empire is over, my brother. Our Prophet (pbuh) speaks of a new road when the Mahdi comes. But the glory of the Ottomans and the Seljuks and the Golden Horde will be remembered when the Mahdi (pbuh) comes. Not just of the Ottomans, but all of them. Are we to say the Ottoman Empire has been rebuilt when we have Islamic Union? The Ottoman Empire will obviously not have been rebuilt. But the glory of the Ottoman Empire will return as a legacy.
A9 TV, 13 February 2012
They discuss the Palestinian problem today. Look, the Palestinian problem, not Islamic Union. What is the problem? The liberation of Palestine. Right, let us imagine it has been liberated. Then what? They will be able to live at ease, they say. So they can live in nice, clean houses and go down to the beach, they say, and have fun, and go to the shops and to school. Is that what the world was created for? Allah will not let them rest easy. We were created to serve and to pray to Allah. We have a duty to establish Islamic Union. Allah bestows that responsibility on us. There can be no ease or peace without that, insha'Allah.
Sufferings can only decline with the way of the Mahdi, insha'Allah. We can see the importance of Islamic Union everywhere.
There may be nuances among Muslims. But there is goodness in all of them. We must respect them all. We must value them all. Our brothers must keep their distance from those devilish types who want to set Muslims against one another. They must not put any faith in them. Muslims must love, respect, value and protect one another. Muslims must keep away from satans that want to set them at one another's throats. Those who call on them to unite and unify and love one another are the followers of the Mahdi. Those who try to set them against one another are the followers of the dajjal (antichrist).
It is a very fine thing for Muslims to love one another and be friends. They used to be against Muslims on the grounds they were Shiites or Jaferis. That has now come to an end, insha'Allah. They are radiant people. Immaculate Muslims. There is no need to divide Muslims like that. One must treat them with love in particular. This world is a temporary place. We are tested. At the end of the test we will go to the hereafter. Insha'Allah, we will all be judged in the Presence of Allah according to the good or mistaken nature of our deeds.
Shiites, Alawites and Jaferis are decent, very pious people and immaculate Muslims. There is no need to divide Muslims like this. One must treat them with love. We are being tested in this brief world. We will all go to the hereafter as a result of that test, insha'Allah. Insha'Allah, we will all be judged in the Presence of Allah for the goodness or errors of our deeds.
The most important subject is Islamic Union. When we have Turkish-Islamic Union and Islamic Union, everything will be resolved. Some people dig around underground. They should come to the surface and rule over it (intellectual). They scurry around under the feet of disbelief like ants. That is no good. They are wasting their time. The essential thing is Islamic Union. Turkish-Islamic Union. Social issues will be resolved then, and political ones and everything. A morally excellent order will then arise in politics, too. Since Islamic moral values will prevail. Everything will fall into place in medicine and everything else. The economy will be sorted out. Because proper moral values will have a very positive impact on everything. My brothers must think on these things.
They must abandon nonsense and strive for the global dominion of Qur'anic moral values. They must demand Islamic Union. They imagine that is very hard, but it is easy. It is not happening because you are not demanding it. If you did, it would happen at once, or in a week. Guests do not come where they are not wanted. And Islam does not come where it is not wanted, either it comes if it is invited, by Allah's leave. It will come if 10% of the Islamic world wants it. But it is not coming as it is not being called. Allah is not sending it. Otherwise we would long since have had Islamic Union. They are all wrapped up in their own problems and thinking of themselves. They are all thinking selfishly. They say they want to be at ease. But they never say a word about Islamic Union. They want to be at ease, but Allah will send you afflictions, rather than ease. You did not come to this world to relax. You came to serve Allah. And Allah bestows no ease on people who not wish for Islamic Union. There can be no peace anywhere in the world. But if they demanded Islamic Union, then peace and ease would follow at once.
It is essential for the whole Muslim world to unite. That is when there will be real happiness. Otherwise, it is not enough for a region to be free and independent. The whole Islamic world must be free and at ease. We therefore want them all to be at ease, including Israel and the Armenians. And Christians, Catholics, the Orthodox and Protestants. We want them all to live in peace. But the moral values of Islam must rule the world. And that is impossible without a leader. Otherwise, it would already have happened. But it has not happened, and there is no happiness. There has to be someone in charge. And that is Hazrat Mahdi (as) and Jesus the Messiah (as).
They are quite scrupulous when it comes to hadiths about eating, marriage and business. There are hadiths about struggle and Islamic Union, but does anyone discuss those at meetings? Islamic Union was our Prophet's (saas) greatest objective. Does he not refer to the global dominion of Islamic moral values among his objectives? Everyone talk about Bediüzzaman's heroism at meetings. But they never mention Bediüzzaman's greatest aim, Islamic Union. He says that is the great religious obligation. But there are parts that nobody finds troubling, so they talk about them, instead. They talk in the mosques. They talk about matrimonial law in the mosques. So it is first marriage, then Islamic Union. (All they talk about is) What the shawl should be long, how many meters the bride's dress should be. Now is not the time. They are ruining Muslims.
Prayer and fasting are commandments of Allah. We must strive for Islamic Union day and night. What did our Prophet (saas) do? They had not enough time for prayer even, so they cut short the prayer. He strove for Islamic Union. Have any of our brothers had to cut prayer short? The important thing is Islamic Union, Turkish-Islamic Union. Turkey is home to holy people. Not in a sense of racial superiority. But we have leadership. Allah showed that in Ottoman times. We are morally superior. My nation is a very good natured one. Prayer is like breathing. But we must strive for Islamic Union. Turkey is the bastion of faith. It is somewhere in which people live by Islam very well.
Islamic Union is not a very difficult system with many obstacles before it. Peace and love are very easy. Satan makes it look difficult. If we want friendship, it is easy for us to be friends. But if it is made to look difficult, if satan convinces people of that, then he can make even the easiest thing difficult. Unification, Turkish-Islamic Union, is the easiest thing in the world. They portray it as if it were a very far-off target. "How can it ever happen?" they ask. It is division you should be baffled by. The way that Muslims fall out is absolutely amazing. It is totally wrong for children to be in prison. The occupation of Afghanistan and Iraq is wrong.
Islamic Union is another name for love, for peace and for brotherhood. It means the end of fanaticism and bigotry. It means the dominion of science, art, democracy and beauty. Our chains will be shattered in this age. There will be great relief. Fear will be listed. The only fear left will be fear of Allah. There will be no fear of weapons, or organized crime, or injustice or anything else.
People must talk about Islamic Union every day. Instead of wasting time on empty chat, they should talk about Islamic Union, day and night. They must talk about Muslims all being brothers. They treat immaculate Muslims like unbelievers for not growing beards. Why do they say that about immaculate Muslims? They are determined to put Muslim women down and humiliate them. I cannot understand why they do that. They insist on them covering their heads. Let them uncover their heads. Be reasonable. Let things be as they were in the Age of Felicity. Look at the fervor in the time of our Prophet (saas) or the Prophet Jesus (as). There was a great danger. But there was great fervor and loyalty and purity.
All the prophets lived by Islamic Union. No prophet ever lived without Islamic Union. The prophets Moses (as), Abraham (as), Jacob (as), Izaac (as), Aaron (as), Ishmael (as) and all of them implemented Islamic Union. No prophet behaved in a way that violated Islamic Union. They spent their lives espousing Islamic Union. Why did the Prophet Moses (as) call his followers away from Pharaoh? To espouse Islamic Union. Why did they go to the desert? In order to live by Islamic Union, even in the desert. Because they could not live by Islamic Union where they were. The Prophet Jesus (as) lived by Islamic Union. The Prophet Jesus (as) said, "you will have problems when you defend me and the faith. You will be arrested and taken to court." Nobody failed to espouse Islamic Union. "Do not be concerned with what to say when you go to court. Leave it to Allah, and He will make you speak." That is what it says in the Gospel. Men with a cause are like that. No prophet ever failed to espouse Islamic Union. No religion ever failed to. It exists in all faiths and sharia. Sharia means path, insha'Allah. The path of virtue, insha'Allah. There can be no religion without Islamic Union.
(About the report concerning the Egyptian scholar's call for Islamic Union)
This has happened, masha'Allah. The teachers have begun speaking out in ones and twos. Yet tens of thousands of teachers should be loudly declaiming it. One person says it and it appears in the papers, "have you heard that this teacher has demanded Islamic Union?" they ask. One person says that. But that is the duty of all Muslims, so what are they waiting for? What is the harm in it? Who will suffer by it? It will make everyone happy, a system in which all will rejoice. A system that will be instrumental in all being happy.
A9 TV, 20 February 2011
"Religion is moral virtue. It is totally moral virtue. Islamic Union is the greatest religious obligation and is above all things. That is the real virtue. Someone who does not espouse Islamic Union is in a very abnormal position. Islamic Union is virtue personified. You see our brothers fighting and dying on the streets. It is the alleged terror organization Ergenekon that is martyring them. Some of our brothers look around and become fixated on the headscarf. The headscarf is just one religious commandment. But the greatest obligation is Islamic Union, but they never talk about that.
You talk about marriage, the headscarf or getting a job when the main thing you should concentrate on is Islamic Union. Islamic Union is the most vital matter. You cannot have the others without Islamic Union. You must concentrate on the most vital issue. And when you have Islamic Union, the rest all follows. If you do not concentrate on Islamic Union, things do not happen because you try and solve them from the edges. Allah constantly responds to Muslims with the rod of destruction. Because they do not concentrate on the essential issue. Allah will give them no peace if they have no love for Hazrat Mahdi (as) and the Prophet Jesus (as) in their hearts. He does not and He will not, by the law of Allah. There is no Islamic Union, but people ask about marriage or the best way of eating rice. They should ask about Islamic Union. Once we have Islamic Union the world will be a paradise for those women who cover their heads and for those who do not. Nobody will interfere with anyone else. You will experience love and peace in the finest way. But if you do not want that, then these troubles will keep coming. Islamic Union is moral virtue. Religion is moral virtue. If you say that only the headscarf is virtue, then Allah will give you no respite. I do not believe in the sincerity of anyone who does not espouse Turkish-Islamic Union.
A9 TV, 25 February 2011
The movements going on are phenomena of the way of the Mahdi. They are movements behind which lie Islamic belief. Are people in Egypt uprising for democracy? Is it a Muslim's aim to achieve democracy? A Muslim's aim is Islam. Democracy is also rooted in the true faiths. Social justice is also an idea that draws on Islam. It is therefore Islam that lies behind the events going on. It is not due to intervention by America. It is metaphysical entities that some people do not know, do not want to know or else that they know but wish they did not, that are directing these events. First and foremost Hazrat Khidr (as). He has hundreds and thousands of his own people and they are managing events, that is what is happening. They say the Arab light has begun shining. It is not the Arab Sun that is rising, but the Sun of Islam. Islam has a Sun that will shine on all mankind. It is the Sun that Bediuzzaman spoke of at the al-Amawi Mosque in Damascus many years before. Martial law is being lifted and democracy is coming. He says that the more democracy comes, the wider the gate to the way of the Mahdi will be opened and Hazrat Mahdi (as) will appear. He says this will start in 30 or 40 years or after half a century. And things are happening just as he said and at the time he said.2012-10-31 13:04:44


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"A Global Prayer For Peace", which was attended by the leaders of the three Abrahamic religions, was organized in Jerusalem. Muslim, Christian and Jewish religious functionaries (priests, rabbis and imams) resident in Jerusalem prayed together. The prayer day was also attended by Rabbi Menahem Froman who visited Mr. Adnan Oktar in Istanbul for several times. Mr. Adnan Oktar's prayer for peace was published on their web sites.
Mr. Adnan Oktar's statements for "A Global Prayer for Peace", 26 September 2010
I extend my greetings and love to all our brothers in our beloved Jerusalem, the home of the three revealed faiths and the land of the Prophets. In the same way, I send my love and greetings to all our brothers all over the world who desire peace and beauty through their prayers in this excellent initiative. May Allah cause our longing for peace and brotherhood, the common prayer of us all, to prevail across the world in as short a time as possible, insha'Allah. May Allah accept our honest intentions and endeavors and build true peace in the whole world in the shortest time possible; may He shine the light of His mercy and abundance on the world, insha'Allah.
May Allah join together all believers in peace and brotherhood, in unity and union, insha'Allah. And may He do this in the shortest time possible, insha'Allah. May He inspire all believers to abide by this union and togetherness and cause them to fervently desire it. May Allah cause them to passionately avoid division, and may He cause them to strive day and night for unity and union with love and passion.
May Allah bring about the appearance of Hazrat Mahdi (pbuh) – or the King Messiah awaited by the Jews – and the Prophet Jesus (pbuh), the two holy figures of the End Times, in the shortest time, insha'Allah. These two holy figures have now come and are at work. May Allah permit us to follow them, insha'Allah. May Allah make them His instruments in completely eliminating strife and corruption from the world and spread the moral values that stem from deep faith in Him, peace and well-being, truth, justice, brotherhood across the world, insha'Allah.
We are living in times when the world needs peace the most, as well as friendship and brotherhood. There is a great intellectual struggle between two opposing poles going on. However, it is not between Muslims on one side and Jews and Christians on the other. Rather, the intellectual struggle is between those who believe in the existence and oneness of Allah, and the unbelievers. To put it another way, we have the believers in the revealed faiths on one hand and the ideologies that oppose them on the other. It is a fact that forces targeting religion and its moral values have combined all the means at their disposal and are acting in alliance against believers. There is only one way to neutralize this alliance in the intellectual sense, to eliminate the negative and destructive consequences of irreligious materialist conditioning and to build societies in which moral virtue, happiness, peace, security and well-being prevail: for people of good conscience across the worlds, for genuinely devout Christians, Jews and Muslims to unite around this common objective.
It is of the greatest importance for Christians, Jews and Muslims, who share many common beliefs, religious observances and moral values, to unite in the face of common dangers, to wage a joint intellectual struggle against atheism, materialism, Darwinism, hatred of religion and social and moral degeneration, and to work hand in hand to spread proper moral virtues across the world. All sincere Jews, Christians and Muslims of good conscience, who support reconciliation, common sense, moral virtue, peace and justice have an ethical responsibility to heed this call.
As members of the three revealed faiths, we all believe in the same Allah, we all abide by the moral virtues commanded by our Lord and strive to disseminate these. Let us all love Allah, our Creator and Lord, let us obey His commands and build peace. Let us pray that Allah will make us His instruments in constructing the dominion of true faith and the spirit of love and affection. When Muslims, Christians and Jews coalesce in this way, when they realize they are all friends and not enemies, when they see that atheism and irreligion is the intellectual system they should really be fighting against, then the world will be a very different place, insha'Allah. The conflicts, disagreements, fears and violence that have been going on for years will come to an end, and believers in the one and only Allah will enjoy a new civilization to be constructed on the basis of love, peace and respect, insha'Allah.
I greet you all with love. I pray that Allah will reveal His acceptance of these prayers of ours in the shortest time possible and that He will shine His glory, light and salvation on the world.


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NVIDIA @ ISC 2013: CUDA 5.5 Released & Moreby Ryan Smith on 6/18/2013 7:30 AM EST
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Senti - Tuesday, June 18, 2013 - linkI would be way more happy if released OpenCL 1.2 drivers. Seriously, even Intel supports 1.2 now. Reply
Fallen Kell - Tuesday, June 18, 2013 - linkAgreed. Reply
p1esk - Tuesday, June 18, 2013 - linkRegarding GPU powered Neural Network simulation - it's interesting that they used regular gaming GPU cards - not $3.5k Tesla, not $1k Titans, and not even current top of the line $600 780GTX gaming cards - they used last generation 680GTX ($400) cards.
Makes one wonder why would anyone doing NN simulation want to buy 10x more expensive Tesla K20 cards? Reply
ShieTar - Thursday, June 20, 2013 - linkMay depend on the exact usage scenario of the network if you can get any additional value out of ECC memory and double precision calculations. When you can get a significant scientific project to run on about 100 GPUs, the price-difference between $400 and $1k only comes to 60k$, that's not very if you consider that they probably pay at least 500k$ a year on salaries for the scientists working with the system.
Also keep in mind, this kind of system is rarely planned and purchased on short notice. They probably started the planning before Titan and the 780 came out. Reply
wumpus - Thursday, June 20, 2013 - linkIt's a neural net. It probably could get away with 16bit values but probably uses 32bit values to map to the hardware better. It has no use for 64bit double precision floating point (the big difference between the 780 and Titan). Also as a neural net, it should be highly resistant to data corruption on its own (you don't expect wetware to return the answer with 12 nines reliability, more like one or two).
The only reason they were using a 780 instead of several 660s or similar boards was due to the need to do as many calculations on the same board as possible and limit communications between boards. I'm willing to bet that the next generation will simply buy the best single-point TFLOP/$ and use algorithms that don't rely so heavily on inter-board communication, but they didn't want make a big bet that would work on their first try. They knew in advance they didn't need the Titans or Telsas, however. Reply


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The Miracle of Hormones
A Wonderful Messenger: Nitric Oxide
What do air pollution, a Nobel Prize and a hormone have in common? The answer is "nitric oxide." In chemistry textbooks, nitric oxide is defined as a colorless, poisonous gas that comes into being by the oxygenation of nitrogen. It is a "simple" molecule shown by the chemical formula, "NO" (it is a molecule made up of one nitrogen atom and one oxygen atom). Both nitrogen and oxygen are familiar elements. One of the first things we learn in high school is that the air we breathe is composed of 78% nitrogen and 21% oxygen.
When we say nitric oxide is "simple," we only refer to the simplicity of its chemical composition. With regard to its importance to human life, intense research over the past twenty years has shown that this molecule performs a basic function in communication among cells. The result of scientific work in this field has revealed that nitric oxide is a hormone produced naturally in the human body. It is a chemical messenger that plays a strategic role in the regulation of the vital functioning of the nervous system, circulatory system, immune system, respiratory system and reproductive system.
Poisonous nitric oxide is a gas that causes air pollution and acid rain, destroys the ozone layer and the ecological environment. This gas is produced by the burning of nitrogen and is found in great quantities in car exhaust. Until recently, only this aspect of NO was known. It was believed that, apart from its threat to human health, it had no function. Even the discovery by research that the NO was a hormone was disregarded in scientific circles. Generally, the first reaction to this discovery was disbelief.
But, within a short time, the results of research have awakened great interest in the scientific community; as evidence of this, the December 1992 issue of the well known scientific periodical Science called nitric oxide the "molecule of the year."74
With increased work in this field of scientific research, nitric oxide has gained great recognition; it has become known as the "magic gas," the "wonderful molecule" and the "secret messenger."
Robert Furchgott, Louis Ignarro and Ferid Murad, who demonstrated the role of nitric oxide in the process of cellular communication, received the 1998 Nobel Prize in Medicine. In the Nobel Foundation press release, it was noted that the prize was awarded to these professors for discoveries made relative to the NO messenger molecule, and it was pointed out that this discovery had elicited an avalanche of research activities in many different laboratories around the world.75Special research in the field of cellular communication has brought several other awards to the same researchers from the Nobel foundation.
In fact, in the last ten years, there has been an explosion in the amount of research done on NO; foundations have been established in the name of Nitric Oxide; periodicals have been published; according to the Nitric Oxide Society records, there are more than 32,000 scientific papers dealing with this remarkable molecule.76
Dr. Salvador Monsada, known for his work on nitric oxide, said that NO has changed the generally accepted thinking about cell-to-cell interaction, and that it has turned upside down some ideas about this matter.77Dr. John Cooke, of Stanford University, has characterized this research as "a great discovery" that is going to have "tremendous ramifications in American medicine—in medicine throughout the world."78
Of course, the basic point is how these developments have squeezed evolutionists into a corner. As in every scientific advance, new discoveries concerning nitric oxide have created a nightmare for evolutionists because there is no way that the wonderful operations in the human body caused by this molecule, 0.0000000001 meter (one billionth of a meter) in size could be explained in terms of chance. Nitric oxide is one of the numberless signs of God's perfect creation.
Evolutionist circles are relentlessly determined to deny God and blind to every marvelous proof of creation from atoms to galaxies. The attitude of their print media towards NO is that these articles, written with a claim to being scientific, praise nitric oxide immensely and present it like a hero or a superman. Because evolutionists deny the Creator of nitric oxide, they almost divinize this molecule and speak as if it performed all its marvelous operations by its own will and intelligence.
Evolutionists fall into their own trap because, this distorted point of view is no different from divinizing a bee because it gives honey, a tree because it gives fruit, or the sun because it gives light to the world. The same way of thinking would lead one to praise a beautiful painting without mentioning the painter or giving him praise. Every person must choose one of the two roads: either he will believe in God as it says in the Qur'an "That is God, your Lord. There is no god but Him, the Creator of everything…" (Qur'an, 6: 102) or he will divinize atoms, molecules, cells and a countless number of animate and inanimate things.
The nitric oxide messenger molecule is only one of the countless blessings that the Almighty God of eternal mercy has created and given to our service. In this century in which we live, it is one of the many wonders of creation that has come to light in the micro-universe. Throughout the section, you will read about the expert design of this molecule that performs its operations on our behalf in a significant number of the 100 trillion (100,000,000,000,000) cells in our bodies.
Design in Our Blood Vessels
Let us begin our investigation of nitric oxide where it was first discovered—the blood vessels. The blood vessels, together with the heart and the blood, form the circulatory system. Our blood vessels are like an immense highway system that goes to every part of our bodies. Its total length is more than 100,000 kilometers. A simple calculation helps us to better understand the importance of this number: if all the arteries, veins, and capillaries in the human body were placed end to end, they could stretch around the earth nearly two and a half times.79
And the blood vessel system in our bodies is incomparably more complex than the highway system in a developed country such as America. Highways are built with a particular width and, according to the density of traffic at different times of day, the number of lanes does not increase or decrease. However, the inner diameter of our blood vessels is not fixed; they narrow and dilate according to our activities and thus play an important role in the adjustment of blood pressure. So, thanks to this wonderful system, the changing needs in different areas of our bodies are met automatically. It is because of this flawless system that the blood vessels dilate to respond to an increased need for blood, and constrict after we receive a wound to reduce bleeding.
How do the blood vessels know when to dilate and when to constrict? The answer to this question is very important for human life. It is clear that a slight error that may happen at any point in the 100,000-kilometer long network of blood vessels will ineluctably have negative consequences.
Until ten years ago, scientists suspected that some very complex operations occurred in the blood vessels, but they were unable to answer the questions posed above. Research has revealed the existence of a chemical messenger—the nitric oxide molecule. It is this molecule that gives instructions for the blood vessels to dilate.
Now, let us examine more closely the wonderful installations deep in our blood vessels that produce nitric oxide.
With an electron microscope, the blood vessels appear to be huge in reverse proportion to their smallness. For example, ten capillary vessels arranged side by side are only the size of a human hair. The inner walls of these tiny blood vessels are covered with a tissue that is made up of the smooth muscle cells; the dilation and contraction of the blood vessels happens as a result of the movement of this tissue. The muscle cells do not make direct contact with the blood because a membranous layer exists between the blood and the muscle cells—the endothelium.
By aligning themselves side by side like the links of a chain, endothelium cells form the endothelial layer. Until the 1980's, it was believed that these cells had no function worthy of attention other than facilitating blood flow in the vessels. We now understand that one of the many responsibilities of the endothelium cells is the production of the nitric oxide messenger.
The endothelium cells are factories that produce nitric oxide molecules. These factories in the blood vessels are just one millionth of a meter in size. The chemical products of this microscopic factory, nitric oxide messenger molecules, are also just one millionth of a meter in size. To help us imagine this measurement, the magnification required to see a NO molecule as grape-sized with the naked eye would magnify a tennis ball to the same size as the world.80
The Short Life Story of the Messenger NO
Every nitric oxide molecule lasts about 10 seconds. It is designed to communicate its message within this short time to the relevant recipients and do this perfectly without fail. The messenger NO molecules secreted by the endothelium cells are dispersed with great speed in every direction. Those which are directed towards the smooth muscle cells enter the membrane of these cells. The smooth muscle cell membrane acts as a selector giving entry to the NO it recognizes. Without wasting any time, the NO molecule that enters the smooth muscle cells finds a special enzyme called GC and communicates its vitally important message. As a result, a series of complex chemical reactions occur within the cell.
What we have called a messenger is a molecule, 0.000000001 meter in size, containing only two atoms. These tiny molecules act as mail deliverers finding the GC enzyme that is the recipient of the message they carry. There are thousands of different enzymes performing different functions inside cells. Despite this, the message is delivered every time to the right address, that is, to the correct enzyme. Moreover, messenger molecules have a very limited life span, but they never make a mistake in timing. The molecules that carry the messages do not have a compass or similar device to show them the direction, but they never lose their way.
The speed with which the nitric oxide molecule performs its function can be compared to modern communication by e-mail. NO acts just like an electronic postal system, sending many messages at high speed to their destinations.
When GC enzyme in the smooth muscle cells receives the message brought by NO, it begins its activity. The duty of this worker enzyme is to turn the GTP, the energy-carrying molecules, into cGMP. The many reactions that occur between these stages are still unknown.
To put it in most simplest terms, at the end of the activity of the enzymes, the concentration of calcium in the muscle cell diminishes, causing a separation in the fibers and the relaxing of the muscle cells. As a result of this, the vessels dilate. In short, the message carried by the nitric oxide molecule has a vital importance in the adjustment of the pressure in the vessels, and what is explained here is only one of the millions of complex communication operations that go on every moment in our bodies.
How is it that NO molecules that have no intelligence or consciousness know the perfect systems that world-renowned professors can still not fathom? And how is it that they know, to the last second, when they must begin their activity and when they must end it? How is it that, as soon as it is produced, as if it had received a command from somewhere, it is able to deliver high-speed messages to the right address, exactly on time and without fail?
NO cannot perform these wonderful operations by itself. This molecule, like millions of other molecules in nature, is the work of a flawless creation, and it is a demonstration of God's limitless power and knowledge.
The Messenger in Sperm
Another very important function performed on our behalf by this molecule occurs in the first moment of our lives. First, we must notice when we say "the first moment of our lives," we do not mean the moment we were born. The first moment of our lives is the first moment of the one cell that formed us, when the sperm united with the egg.
When the sperm and the egg meet, a number of incredibly complex chemical operations begin, and as a result, an embryo is formed. But, among the many details that are still unknown, there is an important point that can be summarized in the words of Professor David Epel who said, "Since the turn of the century, people have wondered exactly how sperm-egg contact initiates development."81
The research carried out to find the answer to this question has shown that the messenger carried by NO initiates the wonderful process in the mother's womb. Inside the sperm there is an enzyme called Nitric Oxide Synthase (NOS). This enzyme begins to produce NO a few seconds before fertilization with perfect timing. When union occurs, the nitric oxide molecules in the sperm are dispersed within the egg; thirty seconds later, the calcium in the egg is activated and, the multiplication mechanism in the first cell goes into operation. The wonderful organization within this first cell is not yet fully understood. It is interesting for us to notice that, if there were an insufficiency in the nitric oxide molecule, communication between the sperm and the egg would not be established. Science came to understand this fact only in the year 2000; this shows us again that nitric oxide was created by God and appointed by Him to perform its functions.
Face to Face With Bacteria and Viruses
Earlier we mentioned that, although nitric oxide carries vital messages, it is also a poisonous molecule. So, the role of NO in the immune system is related to its poisonous qualities. This molecule is secreted by macrophages, which are important in the body's immune system. Recall that macrophages are microorganisms 0.01 of a millimeter in size. By a process called phagocytosis, they remove (swallow) bacteria and molecules, which are dangerous for our bodies. When a macrophage meets germs or bacteria that cause sickness, it surrounds them; afterwards, the bacteria that are embraced on every side by the macrophages are subjected to a bombardment of nitric oxide. In this way, nitric oxide molecules start a reaction to destroy the bacteria. Certainly, the cooperation between nitric oxide and macrophages is one of the countless proofs of the harmonious creation.
The NO molecules have another interesting role in the immune system. Research has shown that NO renders the "protease" enzyme found in some viruses ineffective. This enzyme breaks down big proteins into small parts that are used in the production of new viruses. NO puts this enzyme out of operation, preventing the virus from multiplying.
Tiny molecules find other molecules in a body that they have never before encountered and know very well how to neutralize their effects. In this way, people can be rescued from great dangers that they were not even aware of. It is very clear that all this order and connection among molecules cannot be the result of chance. God, the Lord of the universe, has given the NO molecules their function and created them with their special qualities.
Research in this field continues, and it is thought that, in the near future, scientists will be able to use nitric oxide in the fight against cancer. Each new bit of information that comes to light will show once again that this molecule is a product of extraordinary design.
Every day, the nitric oxide molecule is subject of new research, and the results of this research amaze even scientists. What is known at this point is that this messenger molecule is produced in various cells throughout our whole body, and that it has important functions in many bodily operations. In order to understand how utterly astonishing the activities of this molecule are, put yourself for a moment in the place of NO and imagine that you are undertaking its duties.
No matter how much of an expert you are, you must confess that you would not be able to do what this molecule does, even with the help of the most advanced computers and laboratories.
Certainly, the nitric oxide messenger molecule has been created by God Who has "created everything and determined it most exactly…" (Qur'an, 25: 2) Although this molecule has no sense organs, intelligence, consciousness, education or technical training, the fact that it can regulate the operations of cells, make and carry out on its own initiative delicate and necessary decisions relative to the human body, comes from God's superior and incomparable design.
All this information has been obtained during the last decade of the twentieth century as a result of intense research by scientists who are considered authorities in this field. Certainly, all the things unknown about NO cannot be brought to light just by the work of individual researchers; there are other factors that must be considered. States and international foundations have spent enormous amounts of money on scientific work in this field and have established laboratories with tools that are the product of the latest technology.
Certainly, the fact that the wonders of creation contained in this messenger molecule have been discovered only after so much work and effort is another demonstration of the superior knowledge of God.
74. D.E. Koshland, "The Molecule of the Year", Science, sayı:258, 18 Aralık 1992, s:1861-1865.
75. The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institute, "Press Release: The 1998 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine", 12 Ekim 1998, http://www.nobel.se/medicine/laureates/1998/press.html.
76. The Nitric Oxide Society, "The Nitric Oxide Home Page", 2000, http://www.apnet.com/no/.
77. R.H. Epstein, "Puff the Magic Gas", Physician's Weekly, sayı:XIII, No:31, 19 Ağustos 1996.
78. J. Cooke, "Magic Molecule", 12 Ekim 1998, http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/science/july-dec98/nobel_10-12.html.
79. M. Encarta Encyclopedia 2000, "Circulatory System".
80. "What is Nanotechnology?", Nano Technology Magazine, 2001, http://nanozine.com/WHATNANO.HTM.
81. D. Epel, "Scientists discover key ingredient in sexual reproduction", Stanford University News Service, 2000, http://www.stanford.edu/dept/news/report/news/august9/sperm-89.html.


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