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August 10, 2012

Podcast: Teraflop GPUs Aplenty; High Frequency Trading Goes Haywire

This week's topics include:

AMD releases new GPUs and APUs for technical apps
NVIDIA adds Kepler K20 to workstation platform
High frequency trading bug costs firm $440 million

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120810_Episode179.mp3 - Running time: 20:07

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