Japan's TSUBAME (see the system at http://www.gsic.titech.ac.jp/) is made up of both x4500 and x4600 systems. I've been in the Thumper room - it's loud as a jet engine in there and cooling is an issue, but only because the room is old. It's an impressive set-up, and made to be upgraded. They've got 1.1 Petabytes of storage now.
Oki Data is late to the biometrics party in Japan (IRTA). This topic is late to the party (Anyone remember March 3rd, 2005 Slashdot Post "Face Recognition Comes to Cameraphones")...
Move along, nothing for your cell phone to see here.
Good point, but these guys really did pioneer a huge field... quantum chromodynamics. Which is not interior design for quantum physicists by the way, but how quarks join together to create the particle zoo we have. As good as CERN or SLAC is, for example, without these three guys, the accelerators at those labs would have nothing to do. Many of my friends in high energy physics work at experiments specifically designed to probe the QCD effects that David Gross, David Politzer and Frank Wilczek theorized. So... should we give the award to the numerous validators or to the first pioneers. I go for the first pioneers. But hey, I am a theorist.
I used to be a resident of the UT system and heard all about the tunnels - even got to pass through one between ENS and RLM on a tour once. Would have loved to have gotten a big map of the tunnels to overlay the standard UT map just to see how quickly I COULD get from RLM to anywhere else but never thought to file a FOIA request... Duh!
But.. not surprised the SS got involved... Y'all know one of the Bush twins attends UT right... The SS has been all over UT since summer of 2000. They're discrete but not exactly in hiding.
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Japan's TSUBAME (see the system at http://www.gsic.titech.ac.jp/) is made up of both x4500 and x4600 systems. I've been in the Thumper room - it's loud as a jet engine in there and cooling is an issue, but only because the room is old. It's an impressive set-up, and made to be upgraded. They've got 1.1 Petabytes of storage now.
Oki Data is late to the biometrics party in Japan (IRTA). This topic is late to the party (Anyone remember March 3rd, 2005 Slashdot Post "Face Recognition Comes to Cameraphones")... Move along, nothing for your cell phone to see here.
Man this is bad but when I read the header to this article, the first thing that came to mind was Warrant ...
Good point, but these guys really did pioneer a huge field ... quantum chromodynamics. Which is not interior design for quantum physicists by the way, but how quarks join together to create the particle zoo we have. As good as CERN or SLAC is, for example, without these three guys, the accelerators at those labs would have nothing to do. Many of my friends in high energy physics work at experiments specifically designed to probe the QCD effects that David Gross, David Politzer and Frank Wilczek theorized. So ... should we give the award to the numerous validators or to the first pioneers. I go for the first pioneers. But hey, I am a theorist.
I used to be a resident of the UT system and heard all about the tunnels - even got to pass through one between ENS and RLM on a tour once. Would have loved to have gotten a big map of the tunnels to overlay the standard UT map just to see how quickly I COULD get from RLM to anywhere else but never thought to file a FOIA request ... Duh!
.. not surprised the SS got involved ... Y'all know one of the Bush twins attends UT right ... The SS has been all over UT since summer of 2000. They're discrete but not exactly in hiding.
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