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Nerd Vacation to the Earth Simulator
eecue writes "Earlier this year I went on vacation to japan. At the end of my trip I was lucky enough to receive a tour of the Earth Simulator, which is the world's fastest super computer. I took pictures and wrote about it."
I wonder if we can slashdot the worlds fastest supercomputer? ;-)
If they are going to simulate the earth...then of course as part of the earth, they will have to simulate the EARTH SIMULATOR(1)...which will have to simulate the EARTH SIMULATOR(2) simulating the EARTH SIMULATOR(1) which will have to simulate the EARTH SIMULATOR(3) simulating the EARTH SIMULATOR(2) simulating the EARTH SIMULATOR(1)..etc.etc.etc...and of course that must go on indefinitely! Dont they have better things to spend millions of dollars of processing power on?
Now I changed the password to the final 84 digits of pi. See ya suckers!
Dutch weather unpredictable? I suppose there is such a huge range; everything from rain to torrential downpour.
Boston?! Heh, try Colorado. Today it was sunny and snowing in Fort Collins. Let's see this supercomputer predict that!
muhahaha ..
wait, who slashdots themselves ?
what's a little bandwidth cost in the hopes of looking worldly & possibly attracting the attention of a g33k girl =) mmmmm
- tensions in our lives that are attacking our minds, unite themselves together to make our consciousness blind - op'ivy
So if you are in Japan and you are as nerdy as me, email me and I will give you her contact address.
For the majority of people here, this would be the first female entry in their email client's contact list!
Man is she in for a bad time!
Code, Hardware, stuff like that.
Pls. Don't tell anybody that we geeks travel around the world to look at computers,
If any none nerds find out ! it just confirms the general believe that we are all a group
Of sad persons with no life
I just hate bit SPAM, (www.netnoise.com.kh)
You Yanks no nothing. Trying living on an island with the Atlantic one side, the North Sea the other and France below. You'll understand changable weather then.
This post contains benzene, nitrosamines, formaldehyde and hydrogen cyanide.
most people should start with a visit at the LIFE simulator
Fleur de Sel
You Yanks no nothing. ...
:)
We know something about our language.
As my father lik@(munch munch)...
So, you are a nerd, but you don't have the slightest idea of how light reflects on surfaces like plastic and glass?
Rule of thumb: if flash light falls at a right angle at a glass surface, it will bounce back and you'll have an _ugly_ _bright_ spot in your picture. Use either a circular polarizer filter, don't use flash at all and use better film.
About the composition, no, there's not much you can do about that technic-wise. Just look at your pictures and learn from your mistakes for the next time.
Cheers,
A. "won't open an account" C.
No-one can be told what the Earth Simulator is. You have to see it for yourself.
Unfortunately they may have to pass you up.
Your grandkids' PC will be made out of room temperature superconductors. The "CPU" will be a single chip containing a lattice of 1048576 10 Ghz processors. It will incorporate a quantum co-processor, qubit level hyperthreading, and 1024 Etabytes extratemporal random access storage.
However, due to the processing power required by Windows Authorized Edition (AE), JRE 25.0, and the GPU cycles required to render clippie in holographic hi-res, it will still take about a second between a menu-click and anything useful happening... (RMSLinux, however, will still run on old 486 SX machines...)
Your grandkids' PC will be made out of room temperature superconductors. The "CPU" will be a single chip containing a lattice of 1048576 10 Ghz processors. It will incorporate a quantum co-processor, qubit level hyperthreading, and 1024 Etabytes extratemporal random access storage.
Great! Just in time for Duke Nukem Forever!
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