Despite using conservative conversions, for the GPU and PS3 clients x86 FLOPS are consistently much greater than their native FLOPS and comprise a large majority of Folding @ home's FLOP performance.

Despite his pledges that ROC would not interfere in secular affairs and would be loyal to the state, the arrests and executions of Orthodox clergy by GPU and later NKVD, destruction of Orthodox cathedrals, churches, icons, seminaries and so on were commonplace throughout the 1920s and 1930s.

Despite having the capability to support sound chips in cartridges, almost no 7800 cartridges feature POKEY hardware for enhanced sound.

Despite the definitions of these new prefixes for binary-based quantities of storage by international standards organizations, memory semiconductor chips are still marketed using the metric prefix names to designate binary multiples.

Despite being renamed to CSG, all chips produced were still stamped with the old " MOS " logo until 1989.

Despite the need for high programming and erasing voltages, virtually all flash chips today require only a single supply voltage, and produce the high voltages via on-chip charge pumps.

Despite the definitions of these new prefixes for binary-based quantities of storage by international standards organizations, memory semiconductor chips are still marketed using the metric prefix names to designate binary multiples.

" Despite rescuing Sky Lynx, the two Autobots ' mission ended in failure, when the pair realized the Mechannibals came by their computer chips by recycling them from other robots they ate.

Despite his tricks and traps, Yugi wins the duel and Mai ’ s chips, re-qualifying her for the tournament.

Despite the considerable investments made by several companies, proteins chips have yet to flood the market.

Despite this, dim sims are primarily found in Chinese takeaway outlets as well as fish and chips shops.

Despite this danger, however, we are informed on every hand that ideas, not machines, are our finest tools ; ;

Despite all this, the idea apparently has captured the imagination of countless youths whose parents are probably more surprised by the response than anybody else.

Despite the sheer beauty and spectacle of numerous documentaries, art films, and travelogues, despite the impressive financial success of such a recent development as Cinerama, the movies are at heart a form of fiction, like the play, the novel, or the short story.

Despite this, the eggs are laid singly, a behaviour not conducive for external fertilisation.

Despite the use of the prefix anti -, the terms Semitic and anti-Semitic are not directly opposed to each other.

* 1388 – Despite being outnumbered 16 to 1, forces of the Old Swiss Confederacy are victorious over the Archduchy of Austria in the Battle of Näfels.

Despite exceptions such as usage in The New York Times, the names of sports teams are usually treated as plurals even if the form of the name is singular.

Despite their avowed claim to appeal to the entire state, in 2009 the Diamondbacks moved their Triple-A Pacific Coast League farm team, the Tucson Sidewinders, to Reno, where they are now known as the Aces.

Despite advances in the protection offered by ballistic armour against projectiles, as the name implies, modern ballistic body armour is much less impervious to stabbing weapons unless they are augmented with anti-knife / anti-stab armour ( usually a form of mail ).

Despite the name, antidepressants are often used to treat other conditions, such as anxiety disorders, obsessive compulsive disorder, eating disorders, chronic pain, and some hormone-mediated disorders such as dysmenorrhea.

Despite this, a small community of enthusiasts are still using it.

Despite having no experience with women, their other signature traits are a shared obsession with sex, and their tendency to chuckle and giggle whenever they hear words or phrases that can even remotely be construed as sexual or scatological.

Despite these constraints especially those deputies that are elected directly normally try to keep close contact with their constituents and to help them with their problems, particularly when they are related to federal policies or agencies.

Despite the fundamental importance and frequent necessity of statistical reasoning, there may nonetheless have been a tendency among biologists to distrust or deprecate results which are not qualitatively apparent.

Despite this, aircraft today are much more extensively used as the primary tools for both army and navy, as evidenced by the prominent use of helicopters to transport and support troops, the use of aerial bombardment as the " first strike " in many engagements, and the replacement of the battleship with the aircraft carrier as the center of most modern navies.

Despite the fact that the housemates are generally isolated, on some occasions some contestants are allowed to exit the house as part of tasks.

Despite everything, however, there are some who support both dates and even some who support dates other than the two major possibilities presented.

Despite his ferocious reputation though, there are no verified accounts of his ever having murdered or harmed those he held captive.

Despite the honey bee's painful sting and the stereotype of insects as pests, bees are generally held in high regard.

Despite the fact that many of Bacardi's offerings are aimed at the lower and middle-part of the price spectrum, Bacardí rums have been entered in a number of international spirit ratings competitions.

Despite their name, comic books are not necessarily humorous in tone ; modern comic books tell stories in a variety of genres.

Despite their confusing English dub names, they are indeed cyborgs.

Despite the Hong Kong laserdisc being NTSC, it has a 4 % faster running time due to its PAL source, and thus also suffers from " frame ghosting ".

Despite its enlarged girth, this star is still spinning with a slightly faster equatorial azimuthal velocity than the Sun, having a projected rotational velocity of 3. 44 km s < sup >− 1 </ sup >.

Despite fulfilling all the necessary railway procedures, the fire trains sometimes arrive at the site faster than the road vehicles, bringing more water supply to tackle the fire.

Despite the ability to fire and reload much faster than the average soldier could manage with a flintlock musket, it failed to attain much interest among the British military or any potential investors.

Despite the harsh economic conditions, a number of companies continued to build larger and faster ships.

Despite the presence of SSTO spacecraft and faster than light starships, soldiers still use chemically-propelled projectile weapons, in many cases bolt action rifles, as they are easier to maintain.

Despite the emulation, the 49g + was still much faster than any older model of HP calculator.

Despite intense user demand for a faster laptop CPU than the G4, Apple never used a G5 series CPU in their PowerBook laptops.

Despite that, Sirtaki incorporates both syrtos ( in its slower part ) and pidikhtós ( in its faster part ) elements.

Despite these tolerances only being intended to allow some leeway for boats built by different builders, this usually results in certain builders boats being perceived as faster due to the way they make use of the tolerances to create a subtly different hull shape.

Despite hopes that the railway would bring further economic development to Rickmansworth and would serve the small factories and warehouses which had developed along the Grand Union Canal, it was Watford which grew at a faster pace and drew business from Rickmansworth.

Despite his collegiate success, MLS teams were skeptical about his ability to adapt to the faster and more physical professional game.

Despite Senna ’ s victory, Mansell proved to be faster during the race, and seemed to be on course for a comfortable victory before his pitstop on lap 71.

Despite both teams running the same fuel strategy, Benetton's stop was much faster than Williams ' stop, and Schumacher left the pitlane in the lead.

Despite Schumacher's victory, Hill proved to be faster during the race, and seemed to be on course for a comfortable victory before his sudden retirement.

Despite managed care's mandate to control costs, U. S. healthcare expenditures has continued to outstrip the overall national income, rising about 2. 4 percentage points faster than the annual GDP since 1970.

Despite spinning in Turn 12 on his out lap, Narain Karthikeyan went 5 seconds faster than the Minardis with his team mate following behind.

Despite this, Car and Driver reported in their testing that the E55 AMG was faster than the SL55 AMG.

Despite being optimized for older PCs, the hardware requirements are similar to Windows XP, although it is faster running on slower clock speeds than Windows XP.

In a 2007 Foreign Policy magazine article, Harvard Business School Professor Pankaj Ghemawat argued that 90 % of the world's phone calls, Web traffic, and investments are local, suggesting that Friedman has grossly exaggerated the significance of the trends he describes: " Despite talk of a new, wired world where information, ideas, money, and people can move around the planet faster than ever before, just a fraction of what we consider globalization actually exists.

Despite standing and weighing 282 pounds to Page's and 205 pounds, McBride was outworked and out punched by his smaller, faster, more aggressive opponent.

Despite the increased length, the fastest time recorded was 32 hours 7 minutes, in the 1983 race, 44 minutes faster than the fastest Cannonball, and the " official " cross-country record until it was broken in 2006.

Despite its extra weight, the S-Type ’ s independent rear suspension allowed it to corner faster than the Mark 2, especially on uneven surfaces.

Despite this, the Navy's Chief of Ordnance noted with approval that the Lee rifle could be fired " with great rapidity ", achieving a rate of fire considerably faster than most existing turn-bolt rifles of the day.