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Comment by doone on April 24, 2013 at 12:18pm

That is pretty good! 

Comment by Michel on April 24, 2013 at 12:16pm

Techno: Computer simulation of water - stupendous realism!

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Comment by doone on April 12, 2013 at 5:21pm

How Google Glass Goes

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Shooting Mosquitos With Lasers

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Comment by Michel on April 6, 2013 at 11:16am

Boston Dynamics, the creators of the famous running dog robot have upped the ante with perhaps their creepiest machine yet: a humanoid!

 

Comment by doone on April 5, 2013 at 2:05pm

No cubicle will ever be as cool.

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Because this cubicle has a drawbridge.

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My God...

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If you had an office castle this could be your daily life:

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Comment by Michel on April 1, 2013 at 12:53pm

@Davy - Of course we have lost tons of information - I have a crate full of old floppy disks both 5.2" and 3.5" as well as Zip disks, various carts and a couple of orphaned hard drives full of data that I won't ever be able to retrieve.

But compared to the astronomical quantities of info we've gathered since then, the lost stuff is a drop in the ocean.

Comment by Michel on April 1, 2013 at 12:48pm

Obsolescence: How Fast? Really Fast!

World’s first petaflop supercomputer obsolete after 5 years, to be decommissioned

Five years ago it was the world’s fastest computer, running over a million billion calculations per second, but today Los Alamos Lab’s Roadrunner supercomputer is being decommissioned.

Just like your old desktop machine.

Roadrunner came online in 2008 to help nuclear scientists model and understand how nuclear weapons age and degrade. It occupied 6,000 square feet, cost $125 million to build, and reached a top speed of 1.45 petaflops with a hybrid processor model that combined 6,563 modified Playstation 3  processors with the same number of AMD Opteron CPUs.

One of the reasons it’s being shut down? While it’s still a fast computer — globally ranked at number 22 last year — Roadrunner is an energy hog, consuming 2.3 megawatts to reach peak operating speeds. That’s as much as a large house consumes in a month. The super-computer that is replacing Roadrunner cost $54 million, takes up much less space, and uses less energy.

“Future supercomputers will need to improve on Roadrunner’s energy efficiency to make the power bill affordable,” Los Alamos National Laboratory said in a statement.

While Roadrunner’s primary job was nuclear physics, scientists also used the supercomputer to investigate nanowire material, lasers, HIV genetics, and a complete simulation of the universe — at a 70-billion particle scale.

And there’s still a little more work for the shut-down supercomputer:

“Even in death, we are trying to learn from Roadrunner,” said Gary Grider of the Laboratory’s High Performance Computing Division.

Scientists will be studying memory compression techniques as well as optimized data routings for another month before dismantling the computer.

Anyone looking for some heavily used Opteron and Playstation 3 chips, cheap?

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Comment by Davy on March 30, 2013 at 10:58am

And in the intervening period from then to now! How Much information has actually been lost? 

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