The Roadrunner (fastest computer in the USA) is for H-bomb simulations ("stockpile stewardship") and gives some of its time to climate change and magnetically-confined plasma (for fusion power) simulations. (Possibly just for PR.)
Might want to review the top 10 list again. The fastest supercomputer in the USA is Jaguar at ORNL. Much of it's CPU time is dedicated towards energy research -- biofuels, cellulosic ethanol, that sort of thing,. ..
Just because the Chinese popped in there with #1, doesn't mean that we're losing our domination in the industry all of a sudden. Plans are well on the way for the next generation of supercomputers. We're talking about 20 petaflops and up,. ..
Maybe they wouldn't have lost 20% of their profit on that movie if they didn't have to overpay Arnold Schwarzenegger for his 30 second role in the film?
I'm pretty close to said "average age" that the article quotes. I wouldn't consider myself an avid gamer, because working full time and having other obligations doesn't leave as much time for games as I'd like; though I do have Steam installed on my computer, and do enjoy a good game of L4D2 or Civilization, and was introduced to Angry Birds by a woman probably in her early forties. I can also remember back in the 80s, when Pac-Man was all the rage, my father played the game (and mastered it) just as well as us kids,. . . So this whole concept of video games being "for youth" is pretty much ludicrous, and based mostly on false stereotypes.
Actually, in the realm of biomedical supercomputing, "none of the above" has already been done. Check out the Anton supercomputer designed and built by D.E. Shaw Research. The entire supercomputer, right down to all of the processor cores themselves, were specially designed and built specifically for molecular dynamics research. The system has no operating system and, as such, no overhead. Every processor cycle goes straight into the calculations. It is capable of churning out simulations of 150,000+ atom protein complexes on the order of several microseconds long, using wallclock CPU time of a few days.
Not everyone on linkedin is a professional. Just look at this listing, or this one. I'm sure this chick is legit, too,. . . And apparently, Osama bin Laden had an account on Linkedin, too. Once you weed out all the bogus accounts and practical jokes, I wonder how many seriously legitimate accounts are left? It makes one wonder if some of these accounts were deliberative created in secret by the company in order to boost their user numbers?
Actually, the National Institute of Health (NIH) just announced last week that they were going to start using lawyers instead of rats in their experiments. Naturally, the American Bar Association was outraged and filed suit. Yet, the NIH presented some very good reasons for the switch.
The lab assistants were becoming very attached to their little rats. This emotional involvement was interfering with the research being conducted. No such attachment could form for a lawyer.
Lawyers breed faster and are in much greater supply.
Lawyers are much cheaper to care for and the humanitarian societies won't jump all over you no matter what you're studying.
Ten points if you read this post on your second monitor like I did!
Posting this from my second 24" display right now! =P I do molecular modeling and virtual simulations of proteins & macromolecules, so the added visualization space is a huge plus. It's especially nice to be able to view the entire protein one screen, and all of your data and/or literature on the other. It's also nice when running VM or connecting to the Windows Citrix Server on one screen and doing real work in Linux on the other -- it's almost like having two computers.
At home, I run a 22" monitor via DVI and a 40" television primarily used as a monitor connected via HDMI. While it would be nice to run two 40" at home, that could understandably be a tad overkill,. ..
You give them more money, you'll get Sharktopus sequels. Guaranteed.
That's no joke. They recently announced their new season will feature such gems like Jersey Shore Shark Attack and Snowmageddon. Add that to the wresting, and this new cooking show they just added, and yes, it's not too hard to see their death around the corner,. . . Combine that with the fact that most of Sci-Fi's (excuse me, SyFy's) demographic is in the process of ditching cable in favor of internet distribution, and Dr. McCoy will soon be saying, "It's Dead, Jim." Even if they did manage to have live footage of Snooki being devoured by a Great White, that still wouldn't be enough to save the network.
I'd personally rather see Syfy take a riskier approach and get out of the cable distribution arena entirely. Focus on producing good, quality science fiction, and either sell it to other networks to air, or Netflix, or put it on their own website. Without having to waste time on the cruft that the cable industry has forced them to waste time with, they would be able to get back to their original mission.
There's no way in hell that would work in the USA. Nobody here trusts bankers to begin with. If bankers took over the post office, mailboxes would be eliminated. In order to send a letter, you'd have to go to an ATM; and if it wasn't your own bank's ATM, they've charge you a $5 "service fee" on top of postage for mailing your letter. For the poor, or those without bank accounts, you'd have to go to a check-cashing store to mail your letter and pay a $100 "processing fee" on top of a 300% postage rate. Plus, it wouldn't really save us money anyways, since we'd just have to bail out the post office next, since they would become, "too big to fail."
I essentially do the same thing here. I started out scanning everything in to PDF, but it's getting better now that most bills are coming electronically, so the PDF is already there. I still set all the file names to YYYY-MM-DD.pdf and put them in separate directories by vendor/company. No need for separate directories by year since the file system does the sorting automatically based on filename. For more important documents, like birth certificates and leases and the like, I keep those in a small cash box, though I am considering upgrading this to one of those small fireproof boxes with a key, for added security.
Radio's been effectively dead ever since these guys took ownership of the whole damn market back in the mid to late 1990s. As a result, most stations in the country have become watered-down corporate crap that repeats the same top 40 playlist several times per day with little attempt to try and innovate. Satellite radio is trying to get some of these listeners back, but a lot of people just gave up and went to their iPods, where they have full control over their own music.
What about a device kind of like a Bussard Ramjet? Park it out in orbit, or at a Lagrange point, let it collect hydrogen from the solar wind. This could then be compressed and stored, and distributed to whomever stopped by and needed fuel. Or some of it could be used if you needed to make minor course corrections.
Well, there's the best of both worlds -- you could always get into Biophysics. A lot of computational simulations of proteins and nucleic acids are based on it, and there's the potential to get into the fairly new, much talked about, and hopefully lucrative field of bioenergy,. ..
Even the most ultra-hard-core, metric-leaning Slashdotter prefers to measure his hard drive in units of Libraries of Congress,. . . Some things just work better,. . .;-)
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Might want to review the top 10 list again. The fastest supercomputer in the USA is Jaguar at ORNL. Much of it's CPU time is dedicated towards energy research -- biofuels, cellulosic ethanol, that sort of thing,. . .
Just because the Chinese popped in there with #1, doesn't mean that we're losing our domination in the industry all of a sudden. Plans are well on the way for the next generation of supercomputers. We're talking about 20 petaflops and up,. . .
Maybe they wouldn't have lost 20% of their profit on that movie if they didn't have to overpay Arnold Schwarzenegger for his 30 second role in the film?
I'm pretty close to said "average age" that the article quotes. I wouldn't consider myself an avid gamer, because working full time and having other obligations doesn't leave as much time for games as I'd like; though I do have Steam installed on my computer, and do enjoy a good game of L4D2 or Civilization, and was introduced to Angry Birds by a woman probably in her early forties. I can also remember back in the 80s, when Pac-Man was all the rage, my father played the game (and mastered it) just as well as us kids,. . . So this whole concept of video games being "for youth" is pretty much ludicrous, and based mostly on false stereotypes.
They could do another 34 more exabytes easily, but according to Rule 34, you probably will wish it wasn't there,. . . ;-)
Ever hear of ECHELON?
Don't forget to drink your Ovaltine.
Actually, in the realm of biomedical supercomputing, "none of the above" has already been done. Check out the Anton supercomputer designed and built by D.E. Shaw Research. The entire supercomputer, right down to all of the processor cores themselves, were specially designed and built specifically for molecular dynamics research. The system has no operating system and, as such, no overhead. Every processor cycle goes straight into the calculations. It is capable of churning out simulations of 150,000+ atom protein complexes on the order of several microseconds long, using wallclock CPU time of a few days.
Not everyone on linkedin is a professional. Just look at this listing, or this one. I'm sure this chick is legit, too,. . . And apparently, Osama bin Laden had an account on Linkedin, too. Once you weed out all the bogus accounts and practical jokes, I wonder how many seriously legitimate accounts are left? It makes one wonder if some of these accounts were deliberative created in secret by the company in order to boost their user numbers?
That's nothing. You ever seen all the worthless articles about all of the "census designated places" in the US?
Ten points if you read this post on your second monitor like I did!
Posting this from my second 24" display right now! =P I do molecular modeling and virtual simulations of proteins & macromolecules, so the added visualization space is a huge plus. It's especially nice to be able to view the entire protein one screen, and all of your data and/or literature on the other. It's also nice when running VM or connecting to the Windows Citrix Server on one screen and doing real work in Linux on the other -- it's almost like having two computers.
At home, I run a 22" monitor via DVI and a 40" television primarily used as a monitor connected via HDMI. While it would be nice to run two 40" at home, that could understandably be a tad overkill,. . .
That's no joke. They recently announced their new season will feature such gems like Jersey Shore Shark Attack and Snowmageddon . Add that to the wresting, and this new cooking show they just added, and yes, it's not too hard to see their death around the corner,. . . Combine that with the fact that most of Sci-Fi's (excuse me, SyFy's) demographic is in the process of ditching cable in favor of internet distribution, and Dr. McCoy will soon be saying, "It's Dead, Jim." Even if they did manage to have live footage of Snooki being devoured by a Great White, that still wouldn't be enough to save the network.
I'd personally rather see Syfy take a riskier approach and get out of the cable distribution arena entirely. Focus on producing good, quality science fiction, and either sell it to other networks to air, or Netflix, or put it on their own website. Without having to waste time on the cruft that the cable industry has forced them to waste time with, they would be able to get back to their original mission.
Too bad most Congressmen have apparently already been bought out by Comcast,. . . Good luck with that plan!
There's no way in hell that would work in the USA. Nobody here trusts bankers to begin with. If bankers took over the post office, mailboxes would be eliminated. In order to send a letter, you'd have to go to an ATM; and if it wasn't your own bank's ATM, they've charge you a $5 "service fee" on top of postage for mailing your letter. For the poor, or those without bank accounts, you'd have to go to a check-cashing store to mail your letter and pay a $100 "processing fee" on top of a 300% postage rate. Plus, it wouldn't really save us money anyways, since we'd just have to bail out the post office next, since they would become, "too big to fail."
I essentially do the same thing here. I started out scanning everything in to PDF, but it's getting better now that most bills are coming electronically, so the PDF is already there. I still set all the file names to YYYY-MM-DD.pdf and put them in separate directories by vendor/company. No need for separate directories by year since the file system does the sorting automatically based on filename. For more important documents, like birth certificates and leases and the like, I keep those in a small cash box, though I am considering upgrading this to one of those small fireproof boxes with a key, for added security.
Radio's been effectively dead ever since these guys took ownership of the whole damn market back in the mid to late 1990s. As a result, most stations in the country have become watered-down corporate crap that repeats the same top 40 playlist several times per day with little attempt to try and innovate. Satellite radio is trying to get some of these listeners back, but a lot of people just gave up and went to their iPods, where they have full control over their own music.
What about a device kind of like a Bussard Ramjet? Park it out in orbit, or at a Lagrange point, let it collect hydrogen from the solar wind. This could then be compressed and stored, and distributed to whomever stopped by and needed fuel. Or some of it could be used if you needed to make minor course corrections.
Well, there's the best of both worlds -- you could always get into Biophysics. A lot of computational simulations of proteins and nucleic acids are based on it, and there's the potential to get into the fairly new, much talked about, and hopefully lucrative field of bioenergy,. . .
Even the most ultra-hard-core, metric-leaning Slashdotter prefers to measure his hard drive in units of Libraries of Congress,. . . Some things just work better,. . . ;-)
Requiring everyone to purchase either a new TV or a digital converter box was a great idea to help stimulate the economy . . . of China!
I'm surprised that the Tea Party hasn't decreed the Metric System as some Socialist Plot out to destroy America yet? You know that's coming,. . .
That's good, because Bill Gates still believes that 640 pixels ought to be enough for anybody!
E-books read YOU!
Showtime never should have canceled Dead Like Me. Dumbest move ever second only to Fox canceling Firefly.