Obviously you don't know what you are talking about. Why don't you use Titan BlueGene/Q, Tianhe-2 or another top 500 supercomputer for web browsing? Like the life is revolving around a f... web browser. Yeah! All those f... supercomputers are useless until you can have one on your desk to surf porn sites.
The summary is saying it is a quantum computer because it sold these to Lockheed Martin and Google. Please. stop that shit. They are pretty fast computers, however nobody has proven it is quantum computers. Even the CTO at D-Wave is not able to demonstrate it and he just doesn't care saying it is damn fast and that's all matter for him.
Slashdot should stop advertising D-Wave computers as QC until it has been proven.
http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=1400 "Instead, journalists have preferred a paper released this week by Catherine McGeoch and Cong Wang, which reports that quantum annealing running on the D-Wave machine outperformed the CPLEX optimization package running on a classical computer by a factor of ~3600, on Ising spin problems involving 439 bits. Wow! That sounds awesome! But before rushing to press, let’s pause to ask ourselves: how can we reconcile this with the USC group’s result of no speedup?"
The one-Alien-fits-all explanation of everything must be scaled down since we know a journey to Mars will expose prospective candidates to deadly doses of radiations from cosmic rays. It must be understood alien supposedly to travel from another stellar system or even another galaxy have to be exposed to a much more higher dose of radiations at a point even the radiation resistant bacteria http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deinococcus_radiodurans wouldn't survive itself.
They offer the plea only to avoid the trial and the cost of the trial. This kind of tractation is usual and the goal is to close the cases quickly and avoid the extra costs of running a trial when appropriate. You cannot conclude anything beyond this.
The reason behind the embedded cameras on policemen has nothing to do with a better control of their work. It has to do with the fact that in the past months, many embarrassing videos by people using their mobile device to record the scene where released and these videos are not always telling the whole story. So, the policemen themselves prefer to wear and record the scene they are involved in, in case such a video is released they will be able to tell the whole story to the public. Of course, if it is found the policeman himself is not having a proper conduct, it will also be easier to management to assess it and act accordingly. But the main goal is to protect policemen against street videos recorded with mobile device that do not tell the whole story about a particular event.
Who cares? The device must be built and operational well before any asteroid is on reach of it. This device must already be designed for such a scenario.
Your comment is off-topic. Nobody cares about your gaming machine and your desktop. Have you read the article? It is about HPC, you know these machines which are simulating global warming, nuclear weapons, etc. It is talking about entire rooms filled with dense compact racks of CPUs and memory and these are having a super high electricity bill to pay each month and they actually care about energy efficiency which may mean more processing power for the same price. Overclocking your gaming machine isn't HPC.
And even recording with any smartphone today is possible without anyone noticing it. So, what's the big deal with Google glasses? What new threat are they representing any ubiquitious technology available today doesn't already represent?
Anyway, wasted money. This reminds my that movie Saw X where X is the number I don't remember about where the guy was killed slowly as the number of peekers at the website showing the guy dying was increasing. I believe the sellers of this video are having a very bad movie taste. The mutism of the mayor is telling us more than any expertise on the video.
That's the point, you need physical access to the glass to break the code. With a USB key, at some point the USB key must be plugged in and can be copied remotely.
I believe this summary is badly worded letting people think the AMS experiment is even a NASA initiative while it isn't neither. It is a CERN experiment that is taking advantage of the ISS and hence the NASA collaboration. Even other space agencies have contributed in this experiment.
I believe you still miss the point. The performance of the cluster isn't the real issue. The benchmark was run just to show the expected degree of parallelism was actually reached. The benchmark is in no way representative of the user requirements for the cluster itself and the tasks it is needed for. It was just ran as a checkpoint to demonstrate the cluster is working as expected.
Okay, forget the BB gun thing. Just ask yourself about the chemical plant explosion in West, TX. Anyone will be charge with felony for this accident resulting in more than a dozen fatalities? Lack of judgement at teen ages isn't a criminal offense.
Imagine you can plug wirelessly your smartphone to a larger display at home, at work, in coffee shops, etc and get a larger screen real estate. Would you still need a tablet? Would you still think it worth the hassle to carry a tablet vs a smartphone which can be plugged wirelessly or not to a larger display when needed and a display you won't have to carry?
Maybe this is where the market is heading. Cheaper displays available at strategic points and wirelessly available.
If you can predict disasters in order to include their costs into your expense sheet, then you can avoid disasters and don't pay a dime for the expected incured costs. So, I guess this is the very basic reason you cannot make this kind of calculations and why they do not make sense anyway.
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What a stupid name for such an operation!
Clearly 640 KW/person is enough!
No buzzwords, only SI prefixes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SI_prefix zetta and yotta are next levels.
No acronyms here, only SI prefixes well documentated: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SI_prefix and learn now zetta and yotta are the next levels.
Funny!
Obviously you don't know what you are talking about. Why don't you use Titan BlueGene/Q, Tianhe-2 or another top 500 supercomputer for web browsing? Like the life is revolving around a f... web browser. Yeah! All those f... supercomputers are useless until you can have one on your desk to surf porn sites.
The summary is saying it is a quantum computer because it sold these to Lockheed Martin and Google. Please. stop that shit. They are pretty fast computers, however nobody has proven it is quantum computers. Even the CTO at D-Wave is not able to demonstrate it and he just doesn't care saying it is damn fast and that's all matter for him.
Slashdot should stop advertising D-Wave computers as QC until it has been proven.
”What we do is build computers,” Rose says, “and if we can build the fastest computers the world has ever known, you can call them whatever you like, and I’ll be happy.”
"Instead, journalists have preferred a paper released this week by Catherine McGeoch and Cong Wang, which reports that quantum annealing running on the D-Wave machine outperformed the CPLEX optimization package running on a classical computer by a factor of ~3600, on Ising spin problems involving 439 bits. Wow! That sounds awesome! But before rushing to press, let’s pause to ask ourselves: how can we reconcile this with the USC group’s result of no speedup?"
The one-Alien-fits-all explanation of everything must be scaled down since we know a journey to Mars will expose prospective candidates to deadly doses of radiations from cosmic rays. It must be understood alien supposedly to travel from another stellar system or even another galaxy have to be exposed to a much more higher dose of radiations at a point even the radiation resistant bacteria http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deinococcus_radiodurans wouldn't survive itself.
Can you provide more details on this statement? What events are you referring to? What proofs they turn off their cameras do you have?
They offer the plea only to avoid the trial and the cost of the trial. This kind of tractation is usual and the goal is to close the cases quickly and avoid the extra costs of running a trial when appropriate. You cannot conclude anything beyond this.
The reason behind the embedded cameras on policemen has nothing to do with a better control of their work. It has to do with the fact that in the past months, many embarrassing videos by people using their mobile device to record the scene where released and these videos are not always telling the whole story. So, the policemen themselves prefer to wear and record the scene they are involved in, in case such a video is released they will be able to tell the whole story to the public. Of course, if it is found the policeman himself is not having a proper conduct, it will also be easier to management to assess it and act accordingly. But the main goal is to protect policemen against street videos recorded with mobile device that do not tell the whole story about a particular event.
Who cares? The device must be built and operational well before any asteroid is on reach of it. This device must already be designed for such a scenario.
I suggest the community start immediately to build an open source Mt. Everest.
Your comment is off-topic. Nobody cares about your gaming machine and your desktop. Have you read the article? It is about HPC, you know these machines which are simulating global warming, nuclear weapons, etc. It is talking about entire rooms filled with dense compact racks of CPUs and memory and these are having a super high electricity bill to pay each month and they actually care about energy efficiency which may mean more processing power for the same price. Overclocking your gaming machine isn't HPC.
And even recording with any smartphone today is possible without anyone noticing it. So, what's the big deal with Google glasses? What new threat are they representing any ubiquitious technology available today doesn't already represent?
Anyway, wasted money. This reminds my that movie Saw X where X is the number I don't remember about where the guy was killed slowly as the number of peekers at the website showing the guy dying was increasing. I believe the sellers of this video are having a very bad movie taste. The mutism of the mayor is telling us more than any expertise on the video.
That's the point, you need physical access to the glass to break the code. With a USB key, at some point the USB key must be plugged in and can be copied remotely.
For your records: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UxZDJ1HiPE
From the summary: "... reports that NASA's Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer ..."
AMS isn't a NASA experiment, it is an international collaboration and NASA is only one among many other collaborators. Source: http://www.ams02.org/partners/participating-institutions/
I believe this summary is badly worded letting people think the AMS experiment is even a NASA initiative while it isn't neither. It is a CERN experiment that is taking advantage of the ISS and hence the NASA collaboration. Even other space agencies have contributed in this experiment.
I believe you still miss the point. The performance of the cluster isn't the real issue. The benchmark was run just to show the expected degree of parallelism was actually reached. The benchmark is in no way representative of the user requirements for the cluster itself and the tasks it is needed for. It was just ran as a checkpoint to demonstrate the cluster is working as expected.
Okay, forget the BB gun thing. Just ask yourself about the chemical plant explosion in West, TX. Anyone will be charge with felony for this accident resulting in more than a dozen fatalities? Lack of judgement at teen ages isn't a criminal offense.
Imagine you can plug wirelessly your smartphone to a larger display at home, at work, in coffee shops, etc and get a larger screen real estate. Would you still need a tablet? Would you still think it worth the hassle to carry a tablet vs a smartphone which can be plugged wirelessly or not to a larger display when needed and a display you won't have to carry?
Maybe this is where the market is heading. Cheaper displays available at strategic points and wirelessly available.
I cannot imagine what a nightmare it will be to manage weapons access thru fingerprints into a large military unit.
I wasn't aware I was supposed to know everything about everything. Thanks for telling me.
If you can predict disasters in order to include their costs into your expense sheet, then you can avoid disasters and don't pay a dime for the expected incured costs. So, I guess this is the very basic reason you cannot make this kind of calculations and why they do not make sense anyway.