And yet you need an ever increasing super computer to track and simulate them???
In the old days, we just detonated a bomb or two if we needed experimental data. Since the test-ban treaty, however, numerical simulations have been used in lieu of physical experiments. I suspect that the accuracy of numerical simulations is a closely guarded secret, and the DOE hasn't yet decided that the present state of the art can't be improved upon.
There is a rival benchmark, Graph 500 Roadrunner isn't on it. Neither is Cielo.
But, it's intended to simulate a different sort of problem set.
And yet another perspective comes from Intel’s John Gustafson, a Director at Intel Labs in Santa Clara, CA, “The answer is simple: Graph 500 stresses the performance bottleneck for modern supercomputers. The Top 500 stresses double precision floating-point, which vendors have made so fast that it has become almost completely irrelevant at predicting performance for the full range of applications. Graph 500 is communication-intensive, which is exactly what we need to improve the most. Make it a benchmark to win, and vendors will work harder at relieving the bottleneck of communication.”
H.P.’s two largest shareholders are Dodge & Cox, a large mutual fund company in San Francisco, and Vanguard, one of the largest asset managers, which offers a range of mutual funds and index funds. Index funds have no choice but to own H.P. shares, since the funds mirror indexes and H.P. makes up a significant part of the Dow Jones industrial average and the S.& P. 500.
Vanguard wouldn’t say how it voted its H.P. shares, and Dodge & Cox didn’t respond to my inquiries. But a source with knowledge of the voting, who asked not to be identified because he isn’t authorized to disclose the results, said both Dodge & Cox and Vanguard voted in favor of the full H.P. slate of directors. (Both companies will eventually have to disclose their votes, but not until September.)
for a little safety deserve neither. Without the hope of emancipation from the state, bitcoin is morally useless. Instead, the users of bitcoin should seek to to destabilize the enemies of freedom and move towards a post-regulatory society.
Bad directors get fired all the time. Alan Smithee is a voluntary attempt on the part of a director to disown a film.
The Directors Guild of America believes in the auteur theory. Every film must have a director. But occasionally, the producers interfere with a director's creative control of a film to such a degree that the only honest option is for the director to disown the film. "Alan Smithee" allowed aggrieved directors to remove their name from the credits while preserving the formal conceit that the film was directed by someone
The two longest-serving directors, John Hammergren and Kennedy Thompson, were rebuked for a series of missteps including the ousting of two chief executives in as many years, with 46% and 45% of votes cast against their re-election.
Normally what one does when confronted with bad corporate governance is to disinvest. But Hewlett Packard is in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, so "index funds", which are popular because they extract minimal fees, are obligated to invest in HP. Activism, it seems, is not in an index funds nature, and so the proxies are routinely signed, keeping bad board members on the job.
Mr. Kamphuis’s current nemesis is Spamhaus, a group based in Geneva that fights Internet spam by publishing blacklists of alleged offenders. Clients of Spamhaus use the information to block annoying e-mails offering discount Viagra or financial windfalls. But Mr. Kamphuis and other critics call Spamhaus a censor that judges what is or isn’t spam. Spamhaus acted, he wrote, “without any court verdict, just by blackmail of suppliers and Jew lies.”
Why would this weaken K Street? The average member of Congress doesn't spend much time in DC as it is. It would weaken the Houses as deliberative bodies, and I'm sure that lobbyists will find ways to exploit that.
Many problems in number theory and the computational and physical sciences, espe- cially in recent times, require more floating point precision than is commonly available in fundamental computer hardware. For example, the new science of “experimental mathematics,” whereby algebraic truths are foreshadowed, even discovered numerically, requires much more than single (32-bit) or double (64-bit) precision.
Swimming to the bottom, touching your elbows to a fresh fuel canister, and immediately swimming back up would probably be enough to kill you. Yet outside the outer boundary, you could swim around as long as you wanted—the dose from the core would be less than the normal background dose you get walking around. In fact, as long as you were underwater, you would be shielded from most of that normal background dose. You may actually receive a lower dose of radiation treading water in a spent fuel pool than walking around on the street.
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And yet you need an ever increasing super computer to track and simulate them???
In the old days, we just detonated a bomb or two if we needed experimental data. Since the test-ban treaty, however, numerical simulations have been used in lieu of physical experiments. I suspect that the accuracy of numerical simulations is a closely guarded secret, and the DOE hasn't yet decided that the present state of the art can't be improved upon.
There is a rival benchmark, Graph 500 Roadrunner isn't on it. Neither is Cielo.
But, it's intended to simulate a different sort of problem set.
And yet another perspective comes from Intel’s John Gustafson, a Director at Intel Labs in Santa Clara, CA, “The answer is simple: Graph 500 stresses the performance bottleneck for modern supercomputers. The Top 500 stresses double precision floating-point, which vendors have made so fast that it has become almost completely irrelevant at predicting performance for the full range of applications. Graph 500 is communication-intensive, which is exactly what we need to improve the most. Make it a benchmark to win, and vendors will work harder at relieving the bottleneck of communication.”
The Case for the Graph 500 – Really Fast or Really Productive? Pick One
Vanguard was mentioned, as was Dodge&Cox.
H.P.’s two largest shareholders are Dodge & Cox, a large mutual fund company in San Francisco, and Vanguard, one of the largest asset managers, which offers a range of mutual funds and index funds. Index funds have no choice but to own H.P. shares, since the funds mirror indexes and H.P. makes up a significant part of the Dow Jones industrial average and the S.& P. 500.
Vanguard wouldn’t say how it voted its H.P. shares, and Dodge & Cox didn’t respond to my inquiries. But a source with knowledge of the voting, who asked not to be identified because he isn’t authorized to disclose the results, said both Dodge & Cox and Vanguard voted in favor of the full H.P. slate of directors. (Both companies will eventually have to disclose their votes, but not until September.)
Juvenile misunderstanding?
It is a young avnt-garde understanding, prior to the corrupting cynicism that enables the tyrannies of conventionality.
for a little safety deserve neither. Without the hope of emancipation from the state, bitcoin is morally useless. Instead, the users of bitcoin should seek to to destabilize the enemies of freedom and move towards a post-regulatory society.
... they're just credited as 'Alan Smithee.'
Bad directors get fired all the time. Alan Smithee is a voluntary attempt on the part of a director to disown a film.
The Directors Guild of America believes in the auteur theory. Every film must have a director. But occasionally, the producers interfere with a director's creative control of a film to such a degree that the only honest option is for the director to disown the film. "Alan Smithee" allowed aggrieved directors to remove their name from the credits while preserving the formal conceit that the film was directed by someone
The two longest-serving directors, John Hammergren and Kennedy Thompson, were rebuked for a series of missteps including the ousting of two chief executives in as many years, with 46% and 45% of votes cast against their re-election.
Sounds like a fairly comfortable margin to me.
The Underwear Bomber? this guy? Why is he still in prison?
Normally what one does when confronted with bad corporate governance is to disinvest. But Hewlett Packard is in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, so "index funds", which are popular because they extract minimal fees, are obligated to invest in HP.
Activism, it seems, is not in an index funds nature, and so the proxies are routinely signed, keeping bad board members on the job.
Mr. Kamphuis’s current nemesis is Spamhaus, a group based in Geneva that fights Internet spam by publishing blacklists of alleged offenders. Clients of Spamhaus use the information to block annoying e-mails offering discount Viagra or financial windfalls. But Mr. Kamphuis and other critics call Spamhaus a censor that judges what is or isn’t spam. Spamhaus acted, he wrote, “without any court verdict, just by blackmail of suppliers and Jew lies.”
Lower resolution would disable Snap, a feature that allows Windows 8 users to view two apps next to one another.
People only need to do one thing at a time. The iPad, with its silly single tasking interface, proves that.
Peer reviewed original research?
Interesting reading material?
Something to put on your CV?
Sometimes a text has to be long to be good. Those who shy away from reading will end up missing out.
Assassination Politics., but does bitcoin have the necessary infrastructure?
Why would this weaken K Street? The average member of Congress doesn't spend much time in DC as it is. It would weaken the Houses as deliberative bodies, and I'm sure that lobbyists will find ways to exploit that.
Isn't teleconferencing all about speaking in front of a camera?
deadly neurotoxin? Posh posh. People willingly inject far more dangerous neurotoxins all the time.
cold pills? I thought Heisenberg made biker meth with phenyl acetone. I haven't seen the latest season, though
The AppleTV adds MPEG-4 artifacts. Even the HDMI cable adds MPEG-4 artifacts.
here's an old paper describing octuple precision on the PowerPC G4
Many problems in number theory and the computational and physical sciences, espe- cially in recent times, require more floating point precision than is commonly available in fundamental computer hardware. For example, the new science of “experimental mathematics,” whereby algebraic truths are foreshadowed, even discovered numerically, requires much more than single (32-bit) or double (64-bit) precision.
That paper references Bailey's 2000 paper on Quad double algorithms, which alludes to "pure mathematics, study of mathematical constants, cryptography, and computational geometry
You really need to start reading What if?.
Swimming to the bottom, touching your elbows to a fresh fuel canister, and immediately swimming back up would probably be enough to kill you.
Yet outside the outer boundary, you could swim around as long as you wanted—the dose from the core would be less than the normal background dose you get walking around. In fact, as long as you were underwater, you would be shielded from most of that normal background dose. You may actually receive a lower dose of radiation treading water in a spent fuel pool than walking around on the street.
Kava? Bush beer?
Arts and rafts of the Cook Islands
Name one.
Probably a few kegs of beer.
Agriculture may have given us civilization but beer gave us agriculture.
The Rolling Stones SACDs were quite reasonable.