You're absolutely right. French -> english very faulty translation module.
Oui.
My point is that it's a very _big_ number for beowulf clusters. The biggest one have 8192 processors
Hmmm...I thought that Beowulf referred to separate computers and not processors. So five computers linked together are a Beowulf cluster of five while a single computer with five processors is not a Beowulf cluster of anything but simply a multiprocessor computer, or is this a incorrect interpretation?
As for the number of processors, I'm sure that they had to make up for the lack of processor speed with sheer numbers. Yuck!
The accomplishment is also a dramatic statement of contrasting scientific and technology priorities in the United States and Japan. The Japanese machine was built to analyze climate change, including global warming, as well as weather and earthquake patterns. The United States has predominantly focused its efforts on building powerful computers for simulating weapons.
Not surprising. Not in the least. Of course, the United States government is going to be spending its cash on simulating nuclear weapons. They have to. They have nuclear weapons. The Japanese, as far as I know, don't. Japan was stripped of a military after World War II probably because the U.S. feared that the same thing would happen to Japan that happened to Germany after WWI, that is, that Japan would get strong again and attack. That is probably why they don't have a military (I think they now have a token military but not a real one) and have no need to simulate nuclear weapons.
As for being the fastest. IBM's Blue Gene will outstrip this Japanese model in two or three years. That's the downside. It will be two or three years from now. Oh well, it will run at One-Petaflop.
Your idea makes a lot of sense. It's totally conceivable that 900 years from now the world would just be getting out of a some sort of dark ages.
The Roman Empire lasted for over a thousand years and they created or used ingenious technology (like the arch, concrete, etc.) but some of that technology disappeared after the Empire collapsed a little over a thousand years ago.
The Greeks also had discovered a lot of science that was only preserved by the people of the Middle East.
The great library at Alexandria was sacked and I think burned to the ground several thousand years ago.
Who knows what gems of knowledge were destroyed in that great library that have taken thousands of years to rediscover.
Maybe we should bury a Cray supercomputer endowed with AI in an underground bunker ala the old Star Trek episode where Kirk was known as Keerock!
To everyone else, it captures the imagination with the tantalizing possibility of time travel. The only problem is that Mallett's time machine would work only from the time that it is actually plugged in and turned on. That means it could never take you back to the Stone Age or the Roman Empire.
And that means, despite all Mallett's work, he will never be able to go back and save his father.
So his time machine only works from the moment you turn it on. Interesting.
When I read the statement 'Gravity has NOTHING to do with mass' I was totally aghast that someone would claim this especially someone claiming that anyone who took high school physics should know this! Obviously this poster doesn't know his physics very well.
As previous posters have noted mass and gravity are intimately related.
I honestly don't believe that Feynman was ever worried about offending anybody.
You're right on this note. IIRC, he talked about supporting a local strip bar that was going to be shut down or something. He didn't seem to care what people might think of him supporting such an establishment.
In a cold dark room inside of a stone castle on an island off the coast of Sweden in the North Sea sit a group of Finns, Swedes and Norwegians. A man sitting at the head of the table, wearing an embroidered Viking hat, pounds his fist onto the table.
"I want one-trillion dollars. One-trillion!" commands Galvar. "No more, no less. We will rule the world!"
Certainly going to Mars may not be popular with Congress or with the President but think about it in other terms. Putting an American on Mars could be a way to show the world and especially terrorists that America isn't going to sit on its laurels, that it will continue to innovate and explore.
We need something to cheer for or at least a place other than Earth to escape to.
Sending DNA in a spacecraft to another planet. No worries about keeping the people on an Ark alive, happy and healthy because there aren't any people...just DNA and the machinery to produce humans at the destination.
This would probably make the cost of sending humanity to another solar system much cheaper although you would have to overcome the difficulties of feeding, educating, nourishing the culture of these new human beings.
This would take a lot of AI and advanced molecular biology techniques.
Funny how/. posters are poo-pooing the alleged robot. Since no one knows what it looks like and what its technical specifications are then it just seems a little strange to make all of these criticisms.
It's probably not the ideal tool but wouldn't it make sense to let this thing loose on a strip of land to search for mines before real humans try to search the same strip. After all, people may be cheap in some parts of the world but they're never disposable.
Seems like it could be a security nightmare...
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If it was improperly done. I've read that there are a lot of 802.11 networks that have no security implemented, of course, Intel will have security implemented since it would be brain dead to not have it. AMD and others would probably love to hook into Intel's wireless network, in a passing car, if they could!
"There is a strong focus on networking and more specifically wireless
networking at Intel. Intel's campus alone is entirely wired for wireless
internet access for their employees."
At a Planetary Society meeting in 1981, his speech eventually had to use the word "billions" (just once), and giggling broke out in the audience, and then he just glared.
He should have just said "one-thousand million..." and he could have avoided saying billion!
I think he only said "Billions..." and people just tacked on the extra billions, of course, him saying that he never said that means he actually said it!;)
Basically, a theorem is always true if the axioms of your theory are true.
Sorry, I should've probably said that I understand Mathematics and the basis of axioms.
What I was actually referring to was the premise of using combinatorics to prove that Thermodynamics is sitting on a solid (or semi-solid) foundation. Can you tell me more about that?
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Oui.
My point is that it's a very _big_ number for beowulf clusters. The biggest one have 8192 processors
Hmmm...I thought that Beowulf referred to separate computers and not processors. So five computers linked together are a Beowulf cluster of five while a single computer with five processors is not a Beowulf cluster of anything but simply a multiprocessor computer, or is this a incorrect interpretation?
As for the number of processors, I'm sure that they had to make up for the lack of processor speed with sheer numbers. Yuck!
Yes but the U.S. Military is investigating on how to generate weather on demand. To own the sky as it were.
And on June 6th at 06:06 pm Pacific Standard Time it became self-aware.
Ahem, I think you meant to say 3.2 Million processors. Not Trillion unless the math from your Universe is different than the math from my Universe.
Not surprising. Not in the least. Of course, the United States government is going to be spending its cash on simulating nuclear weapons. They have to. They have nuclear weapons. The Japanese, as far as I know, don't. Japan was stripped of a military after World War II probably because the U.S. feared that the same thing would happen to Japan that happened to Germany after WWI, that is, that Japan would get strong again and attack. That is probably why they don't have a military (I think they now have a token military but not a real one) and have no need to simulate nuclear weapons.
As for being the fastest. IBM's Blue Gene will outstrip this Japanese model in two or three years. That's the downside. It will be two or three years from now. Oh well, it will run at One-Petaflop.
Yeah 3" is huge! Imagine a group of them!?! Yikes!
The Roman Empire lasted for over a thousand years and they created or used ingenious technology (like the arch, concrete, etc.) but some of that technology disappeared after the Empire collapsed a little over a thousand years ago.
The Greeks also had discovered a lot of science that was only preserved by the people of the Middle East.
The great library at Alexandria was sacked and I think burned to the ground several thousand years ago.
Who knows what gems of knowledge were destroyed in that great library that have taken thousands of years to rediscover.
Maybe we should bury a Cray supercomputer endowed with AI in an underground bunker ala the old Star Trek episode where Kirk was known as Keerock!
To everyone else, it captures the imagination with the tantalizing possibility of time travel. The only problem is that Mallett's time machine would work only from the time that it is actually plugged in and turned on. That means it could never take you back to the Stone Age or the Roman Empire. And that means, despite all Mallett's work, he will never be able to go back and save his father.
So his time machine only works from the moment you turn it on. Interesting.
Slightly off-topic but Sony Electronics seems to have tried to patent zero-click shopping.
or so he says. Plus I believe that he wrote some cheesy script for one of Roger Corman's movies back in the 60's. He certainly has a history!
As previous posters have noted mass and gravity are intimately related.
You're right on this note. IIRC, he talked about supporting a local strip bar that was going to be shut down or something. He didn't seem to care what people might think of him supporting such an establishment.
"I want one-trillion dollars. One-trillion!" commands Galvar. "No more, no less. We will rule the world!"
Btw, it was a pretty good movie too!
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We need something to cheer for or at least a place other than Earth to escape to.
Let's Explore Mars.
This would probably make the cost of sending humanity to another solar system much cheaper although you would have to overcome the difficulties of feeding, educating, nourishing the culture of these new human beings.
This would take a lot of AI and advanced molecular biology techniques.
It's probably not the ideal tool but wouldn't it make sense to let this thing loose on a strip of land to search for mines before real humans try to search the same strip. After all, people may be cheap in some parts of the world but they're never disposable.
"There is a strong focus on networking and more specifically wireless
networking at Intel. Intel's campus alone is entirely wired for wireless
internet access for their employees."
See the perl golf tournament on the base 36 problem at perlmonks.org.
He should have just said "one-thousand million..." and he could have avoided saying billion!
I think he only said "Billions..." and people just tacked on the extra billions, of course, him saying that he never said that means he actually said it! ;)
Austin Powers: You Only Shag Twice!
Sorry, I should've probably said that I understand Mathematics and the basis of axioms.
What I was actually referring to was the premise of using combinatorics to prove that Thermodynamics is sitting on a solid (or semi-solid) foundation. Can you tell me more about that?
"but it is also a mathematical theorem (such as, say, "a + b = b + a")."
I'm guessing he probably proved this idea - no?