CPUs, RAMs, Mobos

• The Ultra Battle: 7 Intel CULV Notebooks Fight it Out! at Hardwarezone.com
• ASRock ION 330HT NetTop HTPC Review at Futurelooks
• Intel Core i5 661 Dual Core LGA 1156 Processor Review at ThinkComputers.org

Video Cards

• ASUS ENGT240 Review at OCC
• EVGA Geforce GTX275 CO-OP Video Card at Benchmark Reviews

Cases, PSUs, Coolers

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• Spire TherMax Pro CPU Cooler Review at Tech-Reviews.co.uk
• NZXT Beta Evo Midi-Tower Review at Technic3D
• Antec Nine Hundred Two Ultimate Gaming Case Review at Legit Reviews
• Noctua NF-P14 FLX Case Fan Review at Verdis Reviews
• Ultra X4 1050 Watt Power Supply at TechwareLabs
• Ultra X4 1600 Watt Full Modular Power at Tweaktown
• Arctic Cooling Accelero XTREME 4870X2 VGA Cooler at PCShopTalk

Peripherals

• QNAP NMP-1000 Network Media Player at techPowerUp
• Seagate Constellation ES - Review at UMLan
• Windows 7: SSD Optimization (German) at PC-Experience.de
• Dynatron Azenx P-Secure Secure HDD Enclosure at Pro-Clockers
• Team Group Xtreem-G1 120GB Solid State Disk at Tweaktown
• Scosche solCHAT II – Solar Powered Bluetooth Speakerphone at TestFreaks
• Samsung PN58B850 58 inch Plasma TV Review at Tweaknews
• Boogie Bug AimBPad Gaming Surface Video Review at eTeknix.com

Misc

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• Win an NVIDIA 3D Vision Bundle! at Techgage.com
• 6 days left to win a XFX Radeon HD 5770 1GB Graphics Card at eTeknix.com

The university was selected for its pioneering use of GPU computing and the CUDA programming model across research and teaching efforts within multiple science and engineering departments.

CUDA(TM) is NVIDIA's computing architecture that enables its GPUs to be programmed using industry standard programming languages and APIs, opening up their massive parallel processing power to a broad range of applications beyond graphics.

Other CUDA Centers of Excellence in the U.S. and abroad include Cambridge University, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Harvard University, National Taiwan University, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tsinghua University, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University of Tennessee and University of Utah. More than 300 universities worldwide teach the CUDA(TM) programming model within their curriculum.

"Maryland was one of the first universities to start integrating the use of GPUs and the CUDA architecture into our courses and research," said Amitabh Varshney, Professor of Computer Science at University of Maryland. "The CUDA programming model is an extremely effective educational tool for students learning parallel programming and no other technology available today provides as powerful and affordable platform for our research as the GPU."

Researchers at the University of Maryland have been exploring the use of GPUs for general-purpose computing for the past five years, when they have demonstrated how to map a number of problems in science, engineering, and medicine to GPUs. Maryland researchers have also published papers that use the CUDA(TM) architecture of NVIDIA(R) GPUs to enable entirely new computational techniques in these disparate fields, ranging from the astrophysical simulation of colliding black holes to the real-time analysis of the acoustic properties of concert halls.

The CUDA Center of Excellence at University of Maryland will support several new projects that make extensive use of GPUs such as DNA sequencing. There has been a dramatic increase in the volume of sequence data that can be analyzed, thanks to GPUs, and sequence alignment programs such as MUMmer, a system developed by University of Maryland with the support of the National Institute of Health, have proven essential to this process. By structuring the required processing in parallel on a GPU, MUMmerGPU achieves more than a 10-fold speedup over a serial CPU version of the sequence alignment kernel. MUMmer GPU is available today through NVIDIA's Tesla Bio Workbench initiative.

CPUs, RAMs, Mobos

• The Budget P55 - Jetway Kuroshio BI-700 at Hardwarezone.com

Cases, PSUs, Coolers

• Thermaltake Element V at PureOverclock
• NZXT Hades Case Review at Overclockersonline.net

Peripherals

• USB 3.0 and SATA 6Gbps Tested On Gigabyte P55A-UD6 at Madshrimps
• Microsoft Explorer Wireless Rechargeable Mouse Review at Tweaknews
• Travel Stix - Pet Care and Travel for Dogs USB Flash Drive Review at Legit Reviews

Misc

• BIOS Option Of The Week - Anti-Virus Protection at Tech ARP
• A Guide To Watercooling at Techarkade

CPUs, RAMs, Mobos

• G.Skill Pi Series DDR3-2200 and Eco DDR3-1600 Review at HardwareHeaven.com
• ASUS M4A785G HTPC/RC Motherboard at iXBT Labs
• AMD Athlon II X4 635 at Rbmods

Video Cards

• Sapphire Radeon HD 5450 Video Card Review at Motherboards.org

Cases, PSUs, Coolers

• Thermaltake SpinQ VT CPU Cooler Review at Hardware Secrets
• NZXT Hades Case ReviewNZXT Hades Case Review at Overclockersonline
• Travel Stix - Pet Care and Travel for Dogs USB Flash Drive Review at Legit Reviews

Peripherals

• BlackBerry Presenter Review at Digital Trends
• Best Digital Cameras of 2010 at Digital Trends

Misc

• Star Trek: Generations HD Movie Review at Tweaktown
• x264 HD Benchmark 3.12 at Tech ARP
• Aliph Jawbone Icon Review at Digital Trends
• HWM+HardwareZone.com Tech Awards 2010 & Reader's Choice Results at Hardwarezone.com
• I Heart Jonas DVD Review at Ascully.com
• All Atom Models at Hardware Secrets
• XSReviews Giving Away Free Games

CPUs, RAMs, Mobos

• Athlon II X3 440: A Three-Headed Dragon at InsideHW
• A VAIO to Lust For: Sony VAIO Spring Launch! at Hardwarezone.com
• ECS A785GM-AD3 Black Series Motherboard Review at Motherboards.org
• Gigabyte GA-P55A-UD4P Motherboard Review at PCSTATS.com
• Kingston HyperX 1600MHz 12GB Triple Channel (KHX1600C9D3K6/12G) at TestFreaks

Video Cards

• PowerColor Radeon HD 5750 Review at OCC
• MSI Radeon HD 5770 HAWK 1GB Video Card at Tweaktown

Cases, PSUs, Coolers

• AZZA Solano 1000R Full-Tower Computer Case at Benchmark Reviews
• SilverStone Grandia GD05 HTPC Case Review at OCIA.net
• XClio Nighthawk Case at Rbmods
• 64 GB Solid State Drive Round-Up at Hardware Secrets
• Cooler Master ATCS 840 Case at TechwareLabs

Peripherals

• OtterBox 3500 Series Review at TechwareLabs
• GIGABYTE SATA 6G Update - RAID 0 Just How We Like It at Tweaktown
• Canon Selphy CP790 at Hardwarezone.com
• Pinnacle Studio HD Ultimate Collection V14 Reviewed at Futurelooks
• Kingston MobileLite G2 USB Card Reader Review at Legit Reviews
• Mini-Box.com M350 Universal Mini-ITX Enclosure Review at Bigbruin.com
• Silverstone DS221 Dual HDD Raid Enclosure at Pro-Clockers

Misc

• Whiteout Blu-Ray Review at Ascully.com
• Modding A Barracuda 7200.11 Into A VelociRaptor Rev. 1.1 at Tech ARP

New ATI Radeon™ HD 5450 Graphics Card Delivers Enthusiast Video Game Features and HD Multimedia Capabilities[2] at an Entry-Level Price

— Newest addition to the award-winning ATI Radeon™ HD 5000 Series product line-up brings advanced technology at an incredible price point —

SUNNYVALE, Calif. — Feb. 4, 2010 — AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced the introduction of the ATI Radeon™ HD 5450 graphics card, the latest addition to the award-winning line-up of ATI Radeon™ HD 5000 Series graphics cards. The ATI Radeon HD 5450 graphics card delivers a state-of-the-art HD multimedia[3] and game experience at a value price. Sharing the same leading edge features found in the critically-acclaimed ATI Radeon™ HD 5800 Series - support for DirectX®11, ATI Eyefinity multi-display technology[4] and ATI Stream technology[5] - the ATI Radeon™ HD 5450 provides an uncompromising Microsoft Windows® 7 experience[6].