August 2006, Steve Chen and a chinese company Galactic have built 4 Tflop/s systems with high efficiency (85%). Probably we can scale up to 100 Tflop/s with high efficiency using the current set of components. 2007 we expect to achieve 250 Tflop/s with high efficiency. They are building systems with one Tflop/s in a rack …
The Typhoon box packs up to five two-socket server boards in a 21 inch x 14 inch x 28 inch wheelable case. 20 cores worth of Intel’s Woodcrest chips or 40 cores worth of the four-core Clovertown chip. A Typhoon 600 Series box should reach 256 gigaflops, while eating only 1,400 watts. A Woodcrest version …
Supercomputer systems discussed at conference including petaflop supercomputer projects. Makoto Taiji, RIKEN of Japan, discussed the current MDGrape3 system (1.4 Petaflop), the 2008 GRAPE-DR project (2 Petaflop), and the 2012 NexGen project (10 Petafop). Zeng Yu said the current Dawning 5000A system scales to 100 TF peak performance and Dawning plans a petascale computer. Chinese …
Ars technica points out the need for the FCC to encourage more competition with broadband The best options being requiring sharing of the telephone lines for different DSL providers and to encourage and support cities and towns with municiple broadband rollouts. Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular Science blogger with …
Some South Korean cable Internet subscribers are now able to get 100Mbps connections thanks to deployment of pre-DOCSIS 3.0 hardware by cable operator ARRIS. With pre-DOCSIS 3.0 hardware reliably delivering speeds in excess of 100Mbps, it bodes well for the introduction of fully-compliant hardware in the latter part of 2007. Once the hardware becomes widely …
Defence tech provides the latest on Deep digger and arrays of Deep diggers that can reach hardened bunkers down to 300 feet The latest information is that Deep Digger as being able to dig down to 150 feet, which is deeper than the best brute force approach. (Blu-113 a 4600 lb missile that is optimized …
Human DNA can have up to 10% variation based upon the number of duplicated sequences. The finding that questions the idea that everyone on Earth is 99.9 percent identical genetically. Instead of showing single variations in human DNA that make people unique, the map looks at differences in duplications and deletions of large DNA segments …
This is a pdf article about how a county in the Washington DC area became the richest in the USA. Basically the slimming down of the fed gov’t gave a bunch of opportunities for those with outsourced businesses to cash in. Plus the fairly well off lobbyists who get $400K-3M+/year. What is interesting is the …
The New Scientist reports that heart stem cells have been discovered by three different groups This will be good news for those with heart and vascular disease when it works its way through further research, development, testing and regulatory approvals. Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular Science blogger with 1 …
Danny Hillis talks about Artificial intelligence, supercomputers and his company Thinking Machines Supercomputer software markets have too few customers. AI are many tough problems. Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular Science blogger with 1 million readers per month. His blog Nextbigfuture.com is ranked #1 Science News Blog. It covers many …
Near infrared spectroscopy can also be used to remotely detect uranium Using a fibre optic probe and the near infrared spectroscopy technique uranium minerals can be detected in soil. Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular Science blogger with 1 million readers per month. His blog Nextbigfuture.com is ranked #1 Science …