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LEGO 71012 The Disney Series Minifigures
This set was released in 2016.
Stitch
Stitch, an alien, is the only creature of his kind in existence. He is the result of an illegal genetic experiment by the mad scientist, Jumba, who simply refers to him as “Experiment 626.” Although Stitch appears to be harmless-small, furry and six-legged, his very existence is an abomination to all that’s decent in the galaxy. Jumba engineered Stitch as the ultimate fighting machine. He is abnormally strong, virtually indestructible, smarter than a supercomputer…and very mischievous. He feels compelled to destroy everything in his path and cannot resist his programming…that is, until he finds the one thing that he has never known before: what it feels like to be a part of a family.
[text from LEGO.com]
Arsenal (Vienna)
The Vienna Arsenal, object 1
(Pictures you can see by clicking on the link at the end of page!)
The Arsenal in Vienna is a former military complex in the southeast of the city, located
in the 3rd district of Vienna. The mighty, consisting of several brick buildings facility is located on a rectangular plan on a hill south of the Country Road Belt (Landstraßer Gürtel).
Meaning
The Arsenal is the most important secular assembly of Romantic Historicism in Vienna and was conducted in Italian-Medieval and Byzantine-Moorish forms. Essentially the complex is preserved in its original forms; only the former workshop buildings within the bounding, from the the outside visible wings were replaced by new constructions.
History to 1945
Bird's eye view of the complex, arsenal, lithography Alexander Kaiser, 1855
Vienna Arsenal (Museum of Military History)
Arsenal, with HGM (Heeresgeschichtliches Museum) from the East
The complex, with a total of 31 "objects" (buildings) was built from 1849 to 1856 on the occasion of the March Revolution of 1848 and was the first building of the fortress triangle, replacing the old Vienna's city walls, with the Rossauer Barracks and the now-defunct Franz Joseph barracks at Stubenring. These buildings should not serve to deter foreign enemies from the city, but to secure state power in the event of revolutionary upheavals in Vienna. The decision to build the Arsenal, it came from the 19-year-old Emperor Franz Joseph I who on 2 December 1848 had come to the throne.
The design for the Imperial Artillery Arsenal came from General Artillery Director Vincenz Freiherr von Augustin, to which, subsequently, the site management had been transferred. Under his leadership, the buildings under assignment of sectors have been planned of the architects Carl Roesner, Antonius Pius de Riegel, August Sicard von Sicardsburg, Eduard van der Nüll, Theophil von Hansen and Ludwig Förster and built by the company of the architect Leopold Mayr.
From 1853 to 1856, Arsenal church was built by the architect Carl Roesner. The K.K. Court Weapon Museum, later K.K. Army Museum, now Museum of Military History, housed in a separate representative free-standing wing, was completed structurally in 1856, but was only in 1869 for the first time accessible.
For the construction of the Arsenal 177 million bricks were used. Construction costs totaled $ 8.5 million guilders. In the following years, there have been extensions. During the two world wars, the complex served as a weapons factory and arsenal, especially as barracks.
The record number of employees in Arsenal was reached in the First World War, with around 20,000 staffers. After 1918, the military-industrial operation with own steel mill was transformed into a public service institution with the name "Austrian Factories Arsenal". However, there were almost insoluble conversion problems in the transition to peacetime production, the product range was too great and the mismanagement considerable. The number of employees declined steadily, and the company became one of the great economic scandals of the First Republic.
By the fall of 1938, the area belonged to the 10th District Favoriten. However, as was established during the "Third Reich" the Reich District of Greater Vienna, became the arsenal complex and the south-east of it lying areas in the wake of district boundary changes parts of the 3rd District.
During the Second World War, in the Arsenal tank repair workshops of the Waffen-SS were set up. In the last two years of the war several buildings were severely damaged by bombing. During the Battle of Vienna, in the days of 7 to 9 April 1945, was the arsenal, defended by the 3rd SS Panzer Division "Totenkopf", focus of the fighting, the Red Army before its victory facing heavy losses.
History since 1945
Ruins of the object 15 after the air raids 1944
Deposits at the Arsenal Street
After heavy bomb damages during the Second World War, the buildings of the Arsenal were largely restored to their original forms.
In the southern part and in the former courtyard of the arsenal several new buildings were added, among them 1959-1963 the decoration workshops of the Federal Theatre designed by the architects Erich Boltenstern and Robert Weinlich. From 1961 to 1963, the telecommunications central office was built by the architect Fritz Pfeffer. From 1973 to 1975 were built operation and office building of the Post and Telephone Head Office for Vienna, Lower Austria and Burgenland (now Technology Centre Arsenal of Telekom Austria) with the 150-meter high radio tower in Vienna Arsenal according to the plans of architect Kurt Eckel. In the 1990s, a rehearsal stage of the Castle Theater (Burgtheater) was built according to plans by Gustav Peichl.
Also the Austrian Research and Testing Centre Arsenal, now Arsenal Research, which has made itself wordwide a celebrity by one of the largest air chambers (now moved to Floridsdorf - 21st District), was housed in the complex. A smaller part of the complex is still used by the Austrian army as a barracks. Furthermore, the Central Institute for Disinfection of the City of Vienna and the Central Chemical Laboratory of the Federal Monuments Office are housed in the arsenal. The Military History Museum uses multiple objects as depots.
In one part of the area residential buildings were erected. The Arsenal is forming an own, two census tracts encompassing census district, which according to the census in 2001 had 2.058 inhabitants.
End of 2003, the arsenal in connection with other properties of the Federal Property Society (BIG - Bundesimmobiliengesellschaft) was sold to a private investor group. Since early 2006, the lawyer of Baden (Lower Austria, not far away from Vienna) Rudolf Fries and industrialist Walter Scherb are majority owners of the 72,000 m2 historic site that they want to refurbish and according to possibility rent new. Fries also plans to enlarge the existing living space by more than a half (about 40,000 m2).
An architectural design competition, whose jury on 28 and 29 in June 2007 met, provided proposals amounting to substantial structural changes in the complex. Such designed competition winner Hohensinn a futuristic clouds clip modeled after El Lissitzky's cloud bracket, a multi-level horizontal structure on slender stilts over the old stock on the outskirts of the Swiss Garden. The realization of these plans is considered unlikely.
Some objects are since 2013 adapted for use by the Technical University of Vienna: Object 227, the so-called "Panzerhalle" will house laboratories of the Institute for Powertrains and Automotive Technology. In object 221, the "Siemens hall", laboratories of the Institute for Energy Technology and Thermodynamics as well as of the Institute for Manufacturing Technology and High Power Laser Technology are built. In object 214 is besides the Technical Testing and Research Institute (TVFA) also the second expansion stage of the "Vienna Scientific Cluster" housed, of a supercomputer, which was built jointly by the Vienna University of Technology, the University of Vienna and the University of Agricultural Sciences.
Accessibility
The arsenal was historically especially over the Landstraßer Gürtel developed. Today passes southeast in the immediate proximity the Südosttangente called motorway A23 with it connection Gürtel/Landstraßer Hauptstrasse. Southwest of the site runs the Eastern Railway, the new Vienna Central Station closes to the west of the arsenal. Two new bridges over the Eastern Railway, the Arsenal Stay Bridge and the Southern Railway bridge and an underpass as part of Ghegastraße and Alfred- Adler-Straße establish a connection to the on the other side of the railway facilities located Sonnwendviertel in the 10th District, which is being built on the former site of the freight train station Vienna South Station.
On the center side is between Arsenal and Landstraßer Gürtel the former Maria Josefa Park located, now known as Swiss Garden. Here stands at the Arsenal street the 21er Haus, a branch of the Austrian Gallery Belvedere, on the center-side edge of the Swiss Garden has the busy suburban main railway route the stop Vienna Quartier Belvedere, next to it the Wiener Linien D (tram) and 69A (bus) run.
The Cray XT Jaguar features more than 224,000 processing cores, each with 2 gigabytes of local memory.
Marta Garcia Martinez, computational scientist at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility, explained a visualization of a hybrid diesel-gasoline engine experiment conducted on Argonne supercomputer Mira.
31102D, Aurora Press Conference with ANL, Intel, and Cray
Photographer: Mark Lopez
First time in a Caribou Coffee, and I get what everyone had told me. Impressive!
I caught up with my friend, Bob, who works at NASA. If you've ever ordered a photo from NASA, chances are Bob is the guy who got it for you. He is responsible for scanning and compiling all of the shots that come in from satellites, the Hubble Telescope, Mars landers - you name it.
I went down and had lunch with him a while ago, and he took me on a personal tour. It was a few years ago, and the still had a room full of Cray supercomputers. It was pretty wild seeing them!
He also showed me the vault, where all of the archived film is kept. It was pretty amazing to be able to touch the film canisters that held the movies from the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo space missions. I was right there, in a small way, with history.
Bob is a guy that's been in my life since 2000, and he went out of his way - in every way - to be a friend to me and my family. He set me up with my first Mac, and iBook G3, and stuck his neck waaaaaay out to back my plays when I was trying some risky stuff to connect with the community that a lot of other people weren't seeing the value of doing.
He moved to southern Delaware a few years ago - I tried to selfishly (I admit it!) talk him out of it, but it definitely ended up being a great move for him, and he plugged in right away and started backing another guy who was taking risks down there.
He has a killer commute from there to Greenbelt where NASA is, and he's pared it down so he doesn't have to come over every day. He made the trip Wednesday all the way over here to catch lunch and have coffee with me!
You know how you hear about people who have people in their lives that they would literally trust with their lives, and the lives of their family members? Here's one of the very few of mine.
I hope you have a Bob in your life - and that you're a Bob for someone else, too. Cheers, with my Dragonfire green tea!
Caribou Coffee, Rt 3, The Village at Waugh Chapel near Crofton, Maryland
Arsenal (Vienna)
The Vienna Arsenal, object 1
(Pictures you can see by clicking on the link at the end of page!)
The Arsenal in Vienna is a former military complex in the southeast of the city, in the 3rd District of Vienna located. The mighty, consisting of several brick buildings facility is located on a rectangular plan on a hill south of the country Strasser belt (Landstraßer Gürtel).
Meaning
The Arsenal is the most important secular assembly of Romantic Historicism in Vienna and was conducted in Italian-Medieval and Byzantine-Moorish forms. Essentially the system is preserved in its original forms; only the former workshop buildings within the bounding, from the the outside visible wings were replaced by new constructions.
History to 1945
Bird's eye view of the complex, arsenal, lithography Alexander Kaiser, 1855
Vienna Arsenal (Museum of Military History)
Arsenal, with HGM (Heeresgeschichtliches Museum) from the East
The plant, with a total of 31 "objects" (buildings) was built from 1849 to 1856 on the occasion of the March Revolution of 1848 and was the first building of the fortress triangle, the old Vienna's city walls replacing, with the Rossauerstrasse Barracks and the now-defunct Franz Joseph barracks at Stubenring. These buildings should not serve to deter foreign enemies from the city, but to secure state power in the event of revolutionary upheavals in Vienna. The decision to build the Arsenal, it came from the 19-year-old Emperor Franz Joseph I who on 2 December 1848 had come to the throne.
The design for the Imperial Artillery Arsenal came from General Artillery Director Vincenz Freiherr von Augustin, which, subsequently, the site management had been transferred. Under his leadership, the buildings under allocation of sectors have been planned of the architects Carl Roesner, Antonius Pius de Riegel, August Sicard von Sicardsburg, Eduard van der Nüll, Theophil von Hansen and Ludwig Förster and built by the company of the architect Leopold Mayr.
From 1853 to 1856, Arsenal church was built by the architect Carl Roesner. The K.K. Court Weapon Museum, later K.K. Army Museum, now Museum of Military History, housed in a separate representative free-standing wing, was completed structurally in 1856, but was only in 1869 for the first time accessible.
For the construction of the Arsenal 177 million bricks were used. Construction costs totaled $ 8.5 million guilders. In the following years, there have been extensions. During the two world wars, the complex served as a weapons factory and arsenal, especially as barracks.
The record number of employees in Arsenal was reached in the First World War, with around 20,000 staffers. After 1918, the military-industrial operation with own steel mill was transformed into a public service institution with the name "Austrian art arsenal". However, there were almost insoluble conversion problems in the transition to peacetime production, the product range was too great and the mismanagement considerable. The number of employees declined steadily, and the company became one of the great economic scandals of the First Republic.
By the fall of 1938, the area belonged to the 10th District Favoriten. However, as was established during the "Third Reich" the Reich District of Greater Vienna the arsenal complex and the south-east of it lying areas in the wake of district boundary changes became parts of the 3rd District.
During the Second World War, in the Arsenal tank repair workshops of the Waffen-SS were set up. In the last two years of the war several buildings were severely damaged by bombing. During the Battle of Vienna, in the days of 7 to 9 April 1945, was the arsenal, defended by the 3rd SS Panzer Division "Totenkopf", focus of the fighting, the Red Army before their victory recording heavy losses.
History since 1945
Ruins of the object 15 after the air raids 1944
Deposits at the Arsenal Street
After heavy bomb damages during the Second World War, the buildings of the Arsenal were largely restored to their original forms.
In the southern part and in the former courtyard of the arsenal several new buildings were added, among them 1959-1963 the decoration workshops of the Federal Theatre designed by the architects Erich Boltenstern and Robert Weinlich. From 1961 to 1963, the telecommunications central office was built by the architect Fritz Pfeffer. From 1973 to 1975 were built plant and office building of the Post and Telephone Head Office for Vienna, Lower Austria and Burgenland (now Technology Centre Arsenal of Telekom Austria) with the 150-foot radio tower in Vienna Arsenal according to the plans of architect Kurt Eckel. In the 1990s, a rehearsal stage of the castle theater (Burgtheater) was built according to plans by Gustav Peichl.
Also the Austrian Research and Testing Centre Arsenal, now Arsenal Research, which has made itself wordwide a celebrity by one of the largest air chambers (now moved to Floridsdorf - 21st District ), was housed in the complex. A smaller part of the system is still used by the Austrian army as a barracks. Furthermore, the Central Institute for Disinfection of the City of Vienna and the Central Chemical Laboratory of the Federal Monuments Office are housed in the arsenal. The Military History Museum uses multiple objects as depots.
In one part of the area residential buildings were erected. The Arsenal is forming an own, two census tracts encompassing census district, which according to the census in 2001 2.058 inhabitants had.
End of 2003, the arsenal in connection with other properties of the Federal Property Society (BIG - Bundesimmobiliengesellschaft) was sold to a private investor group. Since early 2006, the lawyer of Baden (Lower Austria, not far away from Vienna) Rudolf Fries and industrialist Walter Scherb are majority owners of the 72,000 m2 historic site that they want to refurbish and according to possibility rent new. Fries also plans to enlarge the existing living space by more than half (about 40,000 m2).
An architectural design competition, whose jury on 28 and 29 in June 2007 met, provided proposals amounting to substantial structural changes in the system. Such designed competition winner Hohensinn a futuristic clouds clip modeled after El Lissitzky's cloud bracket, a multi-level horizontal structure on slender stilts over the old stock on the outskirts of the Swiss Garden. The realization of these plans is considered unlikely.
Some objects are since 2013 adapted for use by the Technical University of Vienna: Object 227, the so-called "Panzerhalle" will house laboratories of the Institute for Powertrains and Automotive Technology. In object 221, the "Siemens hall", laboratories of the Institute for Energy Technology and Thermodynamics as well as of the Institute for Manufacturing Technology and High Power Laser Technology are built. In object 214 is besides the Technical Testing and Research Institute (TVFA) also the second expansion stage of the "Vienna Scientific Cluster" housed, of a supercomputer, which was built jointly by the Vienna University of Technology, the University of Vienna and the University of Agricultural Sciences.
Accessibility
The arsenal was historically especially over the Landstraßer Gürtel developed. Today passes southeast in the immediate proximity the Südosttangente called motorway A23 with it connection Gürtel/Landstraßer Hauptstrasse. Southwest of the site runs the Eastern Railway, the new Vienna Central Station closes to the west of the arsenal. Two new bridges over the Eastern Railway, the Arsenal Stay Bridge and the Southern Railway bridge and an underpass as part of Ghegastraße and Alfred- Adler-Straße establish a connection to the on the other side of the railway facilities located Sonnwendviertel in the 10th District, which is being built on the former site of the freight train station Vienna South Station.
On the center side is between Arsenal and Landstraßer Gürtel the former Maria Josefa Park located, now known as Swiss Garden. Here stands at the Arsenalstraße the 21er Haus, a branch of the Austrian Gallery Belvedere, on the center-side edge of the Swiss Garden has the busy suburban main railway route the stop Vienna Quartier Belvedere, next to it the Wiener Linien D (tram) and 69A (bus) run.
Science is progress.
The morphing projects of Micha Klein show that if you keep on blending 'beautiful' people, you end up with people without flaws and without personality. Plastic people.
This image belongs to a tryptich which also consists of clone army and Someday supercomputers will decipher how genes work
Argonne principal mechanical engineer Sibendu Som (left) and computational scientist Raymond Bair discuss combustion engine simulations conducted by the Virtual Engine Research Institute and Fuels Initiative (VERIFI). The initiative will be running massive simulations on Argonne’s Mira supercomputer to gain further insight into the inner workings of combustion engines.
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PI: George Karniadakis, Brown University
Brain vasculature, coupled continuum-atomistic simulation: Platelets aggregation on the wall of aneurysm where yellow particles are active platelets, red particles are inactive platelets. Streamlines depict instantaneous velocity field. (i) Onset of clot formation; (ii) Clot formation progresses in time and space, detachment of small platelet clusters due to shear-flow is observed.
Credits: Leopold Grinberg, George Em. Karniadakis, Brown University; Vitali Morozov, Joseph A. Insley, Michael E. Papka, Kalyan Kumaran; Argonne National Laboratory; Dmitry A Fedosov, Forschungszentrum Juelich
One of the first Cray supercomputers to achieve 1 petaflops (1,000,000,000,000,000 operations per second)
(left) Aaron Knoll, research scientist within the SCI Institute at the University of Utah, and (right) Silvio Rizzi, assistant computer scientist at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF) answer participants questions after 'Visualization with v13. Now on the CPU' presentation at the Intel Xeon Phi User's Group (IXPUG) annual meeting at Argonne.
Deep in space, giant galaxy clusters filled with vast clouds of hot, X-ray producing gas are assembled through supersonic collisions over billions of years. In order to better understand these astrophysical phenomena, called galaxy cluster mergers, scientists visualize them using supercomputers—resulting in this beautiful image.
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Dark matter makes up the majority of the cluster material, up to 90% by mass, and the gravitational force of the dark matter dominates the physics of the merger. Most of the ordinary matter is in the form of a hot, diffuse plasma known as the intra-cluster medium. These gases interact directly, unlike the dark matter particles, whose motion is thought to be collisionless. However the mixing of the gas is completely driven by the violent orbital motion of the dark matter cores. Shown here are volume renderings of the gases (in blue and yellow) and trajectories of some of the dark matter particles from each cluster.
Researchers: John Zuhone, Harvard-Smithsonian CfA; Donald Q. Lamb, University of Chicago
Visualization: Brad Gallagher, University of Chicago
Research supported by:
DOE/NNSA ASC Alliance Flash Center, DOE/Office of Science INCITE Program
Mike Papka, division director of the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF) and the deputy associate laboratory director for Computing, Environment, and Life Sciences (CELS) holds up his Reddit verification ahead of his Ask Me Anything (AMA) appearance the next day.
Check out the AMA on the Aurora announcement HERE »
Photographer: Mark Lopez
This fine example of mid-1970s computing muscle is on display in the Science Museum in London. The Cray-1 was launched in 1976, and at the time was one of the world's most powerful computers.
From what I recall, the Nokia N95 I took this photo with (and uploaded it to Flickr from), packs more computing power than this baby, but the Cray just looks so cool (and you can't sit on an N95, or if you did, you'd probably break something).
Does someone build a PC case that looks like this?
- Camera phone upload powered by ShoZu
The Cray XT5 Kraken, managed by the University of Tennessee and funded by the National Science Foundation, is the world’s fastest academic supercomputer. The Kraken features more than 99,000 processing cores, each with more than 1 gigabyte of local memory.
Learn about the power of today’s supercomputers and how they are used to solve many of the biggest scientific challenges facing researchers. Use your imagination as you enter the mirrored “infinity room” to answer the question, “What would you do if there were more of you?” Learn the basics of parallel computing by taking a virtual walk through Titan, the nation’s most powerful supercomputer. While inside Titan, you will see how parallel computing is like building a house—to get a job done efficiently, workers must carry out different tasks at the same time. Today’s supercomputers provide solutions to the world’s biggest challenges! Photo credit/Genevieve Martin/ORNL
On April 9, 2015, the Department of Energy announced a $200 million investment to deliver a next-generation supercomputer, known as Aurora, to the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility. When commissioned in 2018, this supercomputer will be open to all scientific users – drawing America’s top researchers to Argonne.
ABOVE: Argonne computational scientist Marta Garcia Martinez explains supercomputer modeling to press conference attendees.
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Argonne director Peter Littlewood speaks alongside members of Congress and industry at the announcement of DOE's award of $200 million to Argonne in order to build the world's next supercomputer, Aurora.
"By investing in large computing resources like Aurora, the scientific community actually ends up realizing large saving in experiments - the ability to make virtual models means researchers have fewer costly experimental runs and can produce and analyze new data and new conclusion much more cheaply and quickly."
31102D, Aurora Press Conference with ANL, Intel, and Cray
Photographer: Mark Lopez
Susan Coghlan, Argonne Leadership Computing Facility Deputy Division Director and project director for the large supercomputing systems holds up her Reddit verification ahead of her Ask Me Anything (AMA) appearance.
Check out the AMA on the Aurora announcement HERE »
Photographer: Mark Lopez
2013. Deputy Division Director Susan Coghlan works with Mira, the fifth-fastest supercomputer in the world, at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility.
The Modeling, Experimentation and Validation, or MeV, Summer School is an annual 10-day program that provides early-career nuclear engineers with advanced studies in modeling, experimentation and validation of nuclear reactor design. Read more »
ABOVE: Jini Ramprakash, with the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility, shows MeV students the Mira supercomputer on a tour.
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Arsenal (Vienna)
The Vienna Arsenal, object 1
(Pictures you can see by clicking on the link at the end of page!)
The Arsenal in Vienna is a former military complex in the southeast of the city, located in the 3rd district of Vienna. The mighty, consisting of several brick buildings facility is located on a rectangular plan on a hill south of the Country Road Belt (Landstraßer Gürtel).
Meaning
The Arsenal is the most important secular assembly of Romantic Historicism in Vienna and was conducted in Italian-Medieval and Byzantine-Moorish forms. Essentially the complex is preserved in its original forms; only the former workshop buildings within the bounding, from the the outside visible wings were replaced by new constructions.
History to 1945
Bird's eye view of the complex, arsenal, lithography Alexander Kaiser, 1855
Vienna Arsenal (Museum of Military History)
Arsenal, with HGM (Heeresgeschichtliches Museum) from the East
The complex, with a total of 31 "objects" (buildings) was built from 1849 to 1856 on the occasion of the March Revolution of 1848 and was the first building of the fortress triangle, replacing the old Vienna's city walls, with the Rossauer Barracks and the now-defunct Franz Joseph barracks at Stubenring. These buildings should not serve to deter foreign enemies from the city, but to secure state power in the event of revolutionary upheavals in Vienna. The decision to build the Arsenal, it came from the 19-year-old Emperor Franz Joseph I who on 2 December 1848 had come to the throne.
The design for the Imperial Artillery Arsenal came from General Artillery Director Vincenz Freiherr von Augustin, to which, subsequently, the site management had been transferred. Under his leadership, the buildings under assignment of sectors have been planned of the architects Carl Roesner, Antonius Pius de Riegel, August Sicard von Sicardsburg, Eduard van der Nüll, Theophil von Hansen and Ludwig Förster and built by the company of the architect Leopold Mayr.
From 1853 to 1856, Arsenal church was built by the architect Carl Roesner. The K.K. Court Weapon Museum, later K.K. Army Museum, now Museum of Military History, housed in a separate representative free-standing wing, was completed structurally in 1856, but was only in 1869 for the first time accessible.
For the construction of the Arsenal 177 million bricks were used. Construction costs totaled $ 8.5 million guilders. In the following years, there have been extensions. During the two world wars, the complex served as a weapons factory and arsenal, especially as barracks.
The record number of employees in Arsenal was reached in the First World War, with around 20,000 staffers. After 1918, the military-industrial operation with own steel mill was transformed into a public service institution with the name "Austrian Factories Arsenal". However, there were almost insoluble conversion problems in the transition to peacetime production, the product range was too great and the mismanagement considerable. The number of employees declined steadily, and the company became one of the great economic scandals of the First Republic.
By the fall of 1938, the area belonged to the 10th District Favoriten. However, as was established during the "Third Reich" the Reich District of Greater Vienna, became the arsenal complex and the south-east of it lying areas in the wake of district boundary changes parts of the 3rd District.
During the Second World War, in the Arsenal tank repair workshops of the Waffen-SS were set up. In the last two years of the war several buildings were severely damaged by bombing. During the Battle of Vienna, in the days of 7 to 9 April 1945, was the arsenal, defended by the 3rd SS Panzer Division "Totenkopf", focus of the fighting, the Red Army before its victory facing heavy losses.
History since 1945
Ruins of the object 15 after the air raids 1944
Deposits at the Arsenal Street
After heavy bomb damages during the Second World War, the buildings of the Arsenal were largely restored to their original forms.
In the southern part and in the former courtyard of the arsenal several new buildings were added, among them 1959-1963 the decoration workshops of the Federal Theatre designed by the architects Erich Boltenstern and Robert Weinlich. From 1961 to 1963, the telecommunications central office was built by the architect Fritz Pfeffer. From 1973 to 1975 were built operation and office building of the Post and Telephone Head Office for Vienna, Lower Austria and Burgenland (now Technology Centre Arsenal of Telekom Austria) with the 150-meter high radio tower in Vienna Arsenal according to the plans of architect Kurt Eckel. In the 1990s, a rehearsal stage of the Castle Theater (Burgtheater) was built according to plans by Gustav Peichl.
Also the Austrian Research and Testing Centre Arsenal, now Arsenal Research, which has made itself wordwide a celebrity by one of the largest air chambers (now moved to Floridsdorf - 21st District), was housed in the complex. A smaller part of the complex is still used by the Austrian army as a barracks. Furthermore, the Central Institute for Disinfection of the City of Vienna and the Central Chemical Laboratory of the Federal Monuments Office are housed in the arsenal. The Military History Museum uses multiple objects as depots.
In one part of the area residential buildings were erected. The Arsenal is forming an own, two census tracts encompassing census district, which according to the census in 2001 had 2.058 inhabitants.
End of 2003, the arsenal in connection with other properties of the Federal Property Society (BIG - Bundesimmobiliengesellschaft) was sold to a private investor group. Since early 2006, the lawyer of Baden (Lower Austria, not far away from Vienna) Rudolf Fries and industrialist Walter Scherb are majority owners of the 72,000 m2 historic site that they want to refurbish and according to possibility rent new. Fries also plans to enlarge the existing living space by more than a half (about 40,000 m2).
An architectural design competition, whose jury on 28 and 29 in June 2007 met, provided proposals amounting to substantial structural changes in the complex. Such designed competition winner Hohensinn a futuristic clouds clip modeled after El Lissitzky's cloud bracket, a multi-level horizontal structure on slender stilts over the old stock on the outskirts of the Swiss Garden. The realization of these plans is considered unlikely.
Some objects are since 2013 adapted for use by the Technical University of Vienna: Object 227, the so-called "Panzerhalle" will house laboratories of the Institute for Powertrains and Automotive Technology. In object 221, the "Siemens hall", laboratories of the Institute for Energy Technology and Thermodynamics as well as of the Institute for Manufacturing Technology and High Power Laser Technology are built. In object 214 is besides the Technical Testing and Research Institute (TVFA) also the second expansion stage of the "Vienna Scientific Cluster" housed, of a supercomputer, which was built jointly by the Vienna University of Technology, the University of Vienna and the University of Agricultural Sciences.
Accessibility
The arsenal was historically especially over the Landstraßer Gürtel developed. Today passes southeast in the immediate proximity the Südosttangente called motorway A23 with it connection Gürtel/Landstraßer Hauptstrasse. Southwest of the site runs the Eastern Railway, the new Vienna Central Station closes to the west of the arsenal. Two new bridges over the Eastern Railway, the Arsenal Stay Bridge and the Southern Railway bridge and an underpass as part of Ghegastraße and Alfred- Adler-Straße establish a connection to the on the other side of the railway facilities located Sonnwendviertel in the 10th District, which is being built on the former site of the freight train station Vienna South Station.
On the center side is between Arsenal and Landstraßer Gürtel the former Maria Josefa Park located, now known as Swiss Garden. Here stands at the Arsenal street the 21er Haus, a branch of the Austrian Gallery Belvedere, on the center-side edge of the Swiss Garden has the busy suburban main railway route the stop Vienna Quartier Belvedere, next to it the Wiener Linien D (tram) and 69A (bus) run.
Kevin Regimbal, director of the PNNL Institutional Computing program, stands next to PNNL’s Olympus supercomputer.
Olympus, the new theoretical 162-Teraflop peak supercomputer PNNL, is helping scientists do more complex, advanced research in areas such as climate science and smart grid development.
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A Dell Inspiron 9300 showing a Cray 2 supercomputer (by Cray Research, Inc). Like the earlier photo - Old and New Monitor Setup - this photo is of a computer showing a photo of a computer.
In this case, though, it isn't of an earlier version of itself . . . just of another computer.
Chose the Cray, as I worked for them and always felt the Cray 2 was an awesome computer! After all how many computers are there where one could have gold fish swimming inside the computer. Of course, it would end real quick after a fish touched one of the boards and I'm sure the fish food and droppings wouldn't go over, either. Yet the idea was cool . . . have visitors walk into a company and see a computer with its boards submerged in fluid along with fish swimming through it.
As I understood it come of the guys in Chippewa Falls did actually put fish inside to prove it could work, but the fish touched the boards and . .
My manager sent me for a tour of the Chippewa Falls facility and to do a presentation. During the tour I got to see a rat put into the fluid, it walked around, even played, and be very alive (wet, but alive) after draining the fluid from his lungs.
The Academic Relations team has unleashed M45, a 4,000-processor cluster supercomputer that runs Hadoop and other open-source distributed computing software. Iit’s one of the fifty most powerful computers in the world. We've made it available to the academic research community, kicking off a relationship with Carnegie Mellon Univ.
Read more here: yodel.yahoo.com/2007/11/12/the-skys-the-limit/
The NASA Center for Climate Simulation (NCCS) Discover supercomputer at Goddard Space Flight Center gets bigger as NCCS and SGI staff place new racks. Adding more than 18,000 new processor cores will enable higher-fidelity simulations, spanning time scales from days to centuries, for applications from weather predictions to climate change projections. www.nccs.nasa.gov
Image credit: NASA GSFC/Jarrett Cohen
Argonne principal mechanical engineer Sibendu Som (left) and computational scientist Raymond Bair discuss combustion engine simulations conducted by the Virtual Engine Research Institute and Fuels Initiative (VERIFI). The initiative will be running massive simulations on Argonne’s Mira supercomputer to gain further insight into the inner workings of combustion engines.
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Peter Littlewood, Argonne National Laboratory Director, speaks with the press.
31102D, Aurora Press Conference with ANL, Intel, and Cray
Photographer: Mark Lopez
This family of Canada geese, resting outside the Terascale Simulation Facility at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory illustrates why sometimes they deserve to be considered pests. Sure, you can clean up the mess, but they'll be back with more deposits a short while later. It's a good thing this building, which houses some of the world's fastest supercomputers, has two entrances. Photo by Ross Gaunt/LLNL
This week, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) opened the Energy Systems Integration Facility, a new research center in Golden, Colorado, that will help boost the integration of clean energy technologies into the electricity grid. In the photo, NREL scientists Michael Crowley and Antti-Pekka Hynninen display some of the formulas they developed to speed calculations done by the software tool CHARMM by several orders of magnitude. Using NREL's new petascale supercomputer housed in the Energy Systems Integration Facility, they can simulate the motions of thousands of atoms, leading to greater understanding of how molecular models work. | Photo by Dennis Schroeder, NREL.
1.usa.gov/16mc5RX — in Golden, CO.
The Cray XT5 Kraken, managed by the University of Tennessee and funded by the National Science Foundation, is the world’s fastest academic supercomputer. The Kraken features more than 99,000 processing cores, each with more than 1 gigabyte of local memory.
Intel V.P. Dave Patterson speaks with Rick Stevens, Argonne's Associate Laboratory Director for Computing, Environment and Life Sciences.
31102D, Aurora Press Conference with ANL, Intel, and Cray
Photographer: Mark Lopez
Learn about the power of today’s supercomputers and how they are used to solve many of the biggest scientific challenges facing researchers. Use your imagination as you enter the mirrored “infinity room” to answer the question, “What would you do if there were more of you?” Learn the basics of parallel computing by taking a virtual walk through Titan, the nation’s most powerful supercomputer. While inside Titan, you will see how parallel computing is like building a house—to get a job done efficiently, workers must carry out different tasks at the same time. Today’s supercomputers provide solutions to the world’s biggest challenges! Photo credit/Genevieve Martin/ORNL
Arsenal (Vienna)
The Vienna Arsenal, object 1
(Pictures you can see by clicking on the link at the end of page!)
The Arsenal in Vienna is a former military complex in the southeast of the city, located in the 3rd district of Vienna. The mighty, consisting of several brick buildings facility is located on a rectangular plan on a hill south of the Country Road Belt (Landstraßer Gürtel).
Meaning
The Arsenal is the most important secular assembly of Romantic Historicism in Vienna and was conducted in Italian-Medieval and Byzantine-Moorish forms. Essentially the complex is preserved in its original forms; only the former workshop buildings within the bounding, from the the outside visible wings were replaced by new constructions.
History to 1945
Bird's eye view of the complex, arsenal, lithography Alexander Kaiser, 1855
Vienna Arsenal (Museum of Military History)
Arsenal, with HGM (Heeresgeschichtliches Museum) from the East
The complex, with a total of 31 "objects" (buildings) was built from 1849 to 1856 on the occasion of the March Revolution of 1848 and was the first building of the fortress triangle, replacing the old Vienna's city walls, with the Rossauer Barracks and the now-defunct Franz Joseph barracks at Stubenring. These buildings should not serve to deter foreign enemies from the city, but to secure state power in the event of revolutionary upheavals in Vienna. The decision to build the Arsenal, it came from the 19-year-old Emperor Franz Joseph I who on 2 December 1848 had come to the throne.
The design for the Imperial Artillery Arsenal came from General Artillery Director Vincenz Freiherr von Augustin, to which, subsequently, the site management had been transferred. Under his leadership, the buildings under assignment of sectors have been planned of the architects Carl Roesner, Antonius Pius de Riegel, August Sicard von Sicardsburg, Eduard van der Nüll, Theophil von Hansen and Ludwig Förster and built by the company of the architect Leopold Mayr.
From 1853 to 1856, Arsenal church was built by the architect Carl Roesner. The K.K. Court Weapon Museum, later K.K. Army Museum, now Museum of Military History, housed in a separate representative free-standing wing, was completed structurally in 1856, but was only in 1869 for the first time accessible.
For the construction of the Arsenal 177 million bricks were used. Construction costs totaled $ 8.5 million guilders. In the following years, there have been extensions. During the two world wars, the complex served as a weapons factory and arsenal, especially as barracks.
The record number of employees in Arsenal was reached in the First World War, with around 20,000 staffers. After 1918, the military-industrial operation with own steel mill was transformed into a public service institution with the name "Austrian Factories Arsenal". However, there were almost insoluble conversion problems in the transition to peacetime production, the product range was too great and the mismanagement considerable. The number of employees declined steadily, and the company became one of the great economic scandals of the First Republic.
By the fall of 1938, the area belonged to the 10th District Favoriten. However, as was established during the "Third Reich" the Reich District of Greater Vienna, became the arsenal complex and the south-east of it lying areas in the wake of district boundary changes parts of the 3rd District.
During the Second World War, in the Arsenal tank repair workshops of the Waffen-SS were set up. In the last two years of the war several buildings were severely damaged by bombing. During the Battle of Vienna, in the days of 7 to 9 April 1945, was the arsenal, defended by the 3rd SS Panzer Division "Totenkopf", focus of the fighting, the Red Army before its victory facing heavy losses.
History since 1945
Ruins of the object 15 after the air raids 1944
Deposits at the Arsenal Street
After heavy bomb damages during the Second World War, the buildings of the Arsenal were largely restored to their original forms.
In the southern part and in the former courtyard of the arsenal several new buildings were added, among them 1959-1963 the decoration workshops of the Federal Theatre designed by the architects Erich Boltenstern and Robert Weinlich. From 1961 to 1963, the telecommunications central office was built by the architect Fritz Pfeffer. From 1973 to 1975 were built operation and office building of the Post and Telephone Head Office for Vienna, Lower Austria and Burgenland (now Technology Centre Arsenal of Telekom Austria) with the 150-meter high radio tower in Vienna Arsenal according to the plans of architect Kurt Eckel. In the 1990s, a rehearsal stage of the Castle Theater (Burgtheater) was built according to plans by Gustav Peichl.
Also the Austrian Research and Testing Centre Arsenal, now Arsenal Research, which has made itself wordwide a celebrity by one of the largest air chambers (now moved to Floridsdorf - 21st District), was housed in the complex. A smaller part of the complex is still used by the Austrian army as a barracks. Furthermore, the Central Institute for Disinfection of the City of Vienna and the Central Chemical Laboratory of the Federal Monuments Office are housed in the arsenal. The Military History Museum uses multiple objects as depots.
In one part of the area residential buildings were erected. The Arsenal is forming an own, two census tracts encompassing census district, which according to the census in 2001 had 2.058 inhabitants.
End of 2003, the arsenal in connection with other properties of the Federal Property Society (BIG - Bundesimmobiliengesellschaft) was sold to a private investor group. Since early 2006, the lawyer of Baden (Lower Austria, not far away from Vienna) Rudolf Fries and industrialist Walter Scherb are majority owners of the 72,000 m2 historic site that they want to refurbish and according to possibility rent new. Fries also plans to enlarge the existing living space by more than a half (about 40,000 m2).
An architectural design competition, whose jury on 28 and 29 in June 2007 met, provided proposals amounting to substantial structural changes in the complex. Such designed competition winner Hohensinn a futuristic clouds clip modeled after El Lissitzky's cloud bracket, a multi-level horizontal structure on slender stilts over the old stock on the outskirts of the Swiss Garden. The realization of these plans is considered unlikely.
Some objects are since 2013 adapted for use by the Technical University of Vienna: Object 227, the so-called "Panzerhalle" will house laboratories of the Institute for Powertrains and Automotive Technology. In object 221, the "Siemens hall", laboratories of the Institute for Energy Technology and Thermodynamics as well as of the Institute for Manufacturing Technology and High Power Laser Technology are built. In object 214 is besides the Technical Testing and Research Institute (TVFA) also the second expansion stage of the "Vienna Scientific Cluster" housed, of a supercomputer, which was built jointly by the Vienna University of Technology, the University of Vienna and the University of Agricultural Sciences.
Accessibility
The arsenal was historically especially over the Landstraßer Gürtel developed. Today passes southeast in the immediate proximity the Südosttangente called motorway A23 with it connection Gürtel/Landstraßer Hauptstrasse. Southwest of the site runs the Eastern Railway, the new Vienna Central Station closes to the west of the arsenal. Two new bridges over the Eastern Railway, the Arsenal Stay Bridge and the Southern Railway bridge and an underpass as part of Ghegastraße and Alfred- Adler-Straße establish a connection to the on the other side of the railway facilities located Sonnwendviertel in the 10th District, which is being built on the former site of the freight train station Vienna South Station.
On the center side is between Arsenal and Landstraßer Gürtel the former Maria Josefa Park located, now known as Swiss Garden. Here stands at the Arsenal street the 21er Haus, a branch of the Austrian Gallery Belvedere, on the center-side edge of the Swiss Garden has the busy suburban main railway route the stop Vienna Quartier Belvedere, next to it the Wiener Linien D (tram) and 69A (bus) run.
Quoting from the caption on this artifact, and also the British Museum's Making the Modern World site:
Seymour Cray was the founder of the high-performance computer industry. In 1960 Cray helped to create the Control Data Corporation and designed CDC 1604, the first fully transistorised, large, scientific computer. In 1972 he started his own company, Cray Research, at Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, USA, and created the Cray-1A, the first in a series of groundbreaking supercomputers.
The computer mainframe consists of 12 wedge-shaped columns placed in an arc. This cylindrical shape was chosen in order to keep the wiring distances short and to reduce the time it took signals to pass along the wires. It also has a Freon cooling system and an early form of vector processing that allowed the computer to achieve then-unrivalled operating speeds.
Cray's designs embodied innovative technology and a great aesthetic sense, but he liked to work with simple tools - often a pencil and paper. It is said that when he was told Apple had bought a Cray to simulate their next desktop machine he remarked: 'Funny, I am using an Apple to simulate the Cray-3'.
The machine here cost £8 million in 1979 and was installed at Aldermaston Atomic Weapons Establishment in England, where it remained in use until July 1990 - the last operating Cray-1A in the world.
The light from early galaxies had a dramatic impact on the gases filling the universe. The stars in these galaxies gave off radiation that ionized the gas (stripping away an electron). This is a supercomputer simulation of this event, called the “epoch of reionization.” The coral-like blobs are created by comparing the gas density in this simulation to one without the light from early stars.
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This visualization highlights the spatial structure of the effect of the light from early galaxies, by comparing the density field from two simulations: one with a self-consistent radiation field (radiative), and one without (non-radiative). The coral-like blobs are regions where light has radiated out, heating the gas, and raising the pressure. The red regions show where the density is much higher in the radiative simulation, while the yellow regions are where the non-radiative has more density. This is the first known visualization of a process known as Jeans smoothing.
Visualization:
Mark Hereld, Joseph A. Insley, Michael E. Papka, Thomas Uram, Venkatram Vishwanath
Argonne National Laboratory
Science:
Robert Harkness, Michael L. Norman, Rick Wagner
San Diego Supercomputer Center
Daniel R. Reynolds,
Southern Methodist University
Stranger #42/100 - Fabian (Blackbeards)
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This picture is #042 in my 100 strangers project. Find out more about the project and see pictures taken by other photographers at the 100 Strangers Flickr Group page
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Usually I'm not a friend of "Magic Numbers", but everyone who has read Douglas Adams' Book will know the special meaning of the number 42: It was the "Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything" calculated by the supercomputer "deep thought" [en.wikipedia.org/wiki/42_(number)].
Therefore I wanted a very special person as my "Stranger #42" and I think Fabian is a perfect impersonation - and he knows the meaning of this number (!).
I met him at the "Stijl"-Event in Munich in a crowded gangway and felt immediately a strong photographic impulse, triggered by an impressive beard with a clothes pin hanging at the end. I asked him for a photo and introduced the project "100 strangers" in an abbreviated form.
Fabian agreed without hesitation to participate and told me that they were presenting some products for shaving and beard care at their booth at the end of the event area, where he would work for blackbeards, an online shop specialized to this market sector. He is also acting as a model for this brand and therefore you can find his face not only on the website but also on printed flyers and in social networks like "Facebook" as a representative for blackbeards.
Though I had finished my "bearded phase" a few weeks ago I decided to visit their representation and realized this shortly before closing time of the event.
The first photo was taken at the place of the first encounter among the visitors, the others were made at the exhibition stand with some marketing elements in the background.
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Normalerweise gebe ich nichts auf "Zahlenmystik", aber wer das Buch von Douglas Adams kennt, wird mit der Zahl 42 eine besondere Bedeutung verbinden: Es war die Antwort des Supercomputers "deep thought" auf die ultimative Frage nach "dem Leben, dem Universum und dem ganzen Rest“ (engl. “life, the universe and everything"), die dieser nach endlosen Berechnungen mit dieser Zahl quittierte. [de.wikipedia.org/wiki/42_(Antwort)]
Ich hatte deshalb die Absicht, für meinen Stranger #42 eine besondere Person zu finden. Mit Fabian ist mir das gelungen - und er kennt diese Bedeutung der Zahl 42 :-).
Er lief mir im Gedränge auf der "Stijl"-Veranstaltung in München über den Weg und löste sofort einen fotografischen Impuls aus, weil er einen stattlichen Bart trug, an dem eine Wäscheklammer mit der Aufschrift "blackbeards" hing.
Ich sprach ihn an und es stellte sich heraus, dass er als Aussteller auf der Messe mit einem Stand vertreten war, wo Produkte "rund um den Bart" präsentiert wurden.
Nachdem ich ihm das Projekt "100 Strangers" kurz vorgestellt hatte, erklärte er sich ohne Zögern bereit mitzumachen. Als Werbeträger für die Marke blackbeards verfügt er bereits über Erfahrungen als Modell und sein Gesicht erscheint nicht nur auf der Website des Online-Shops, sondern auch auf gedruckten Broschüren und in sozialen Netzwerken wie "Facebook". Ich nahm mir deshalb vor, später seinen Stand zu besuchen, auch wenn ich meine eigenen Ambitionen als Träger eines Vollbarts mittlerweile aufgegeben habe (zuviele graue Haare :-).
In der Zwischenzeit bummelte ich durch die Räume, stöberte im vielfältigen Angebot und lernte ein paar nette Leute kennen, von denen einige ebenfalls als Motiv für mein Fotoprojekt in Frage gekommen wären. Unter anderem ergab sich aus einer weiteren Begegnung auf dieser Veranstaltung mein [Stranger #43 - Aline].
Kurz vor Ende des Events fand ich dann die Präsentation der Blackbeards-Vertreter, die erwartungsgemäß alle eindrucksvolle Bärte besitzen, zumindest die Männer. Dort versuchte ich noch ein paar Porträts von Fabian, die ihn zusammen mit Werbeelementen der Marke zeigen. Eine der letzten Aufnahmen, die alle ohne zusätzliche Aufhellung bei den gegebenen Lichtverhältnissen entstanden, habe ich für das Projekt ausgewählt. Bei der Nachbearbeitung fiel mir dann auf, dass der rote Stoff an seiner Cap zu einer leichten Farbverfälschung auf dem Gesicht führte, was ich nicht vollständig beseitigen konnte (eine wichtige Erfahrung für die technischen Aspekte der Porträtfotografie!).
Eine ausnahmsweise zusätzlich erstellte Schwarz-Weiss-Variante kaschiert dieses Problem und steht deshalb zu Vergleichszwecken hier zur Verfügung.
Bei Fabian möchte ich mich an dieser Stelle für die Bereitschaft zur Teilnahme und für die Geduld bei der kurzen zusätzlichen Aufnahmesession bedanken!
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Available light with no additional light source.
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The Cray XT Jaguar features more than 224,000 processing cores, each with 2 gigabytes of local memory.
"Design a building that captures the essence of creative engagement, which could possibly be built. "
In this case my Patron build with a full revision thanks to the kindness of a friend ~coughsCucoughs~ to give me both a smack on the back of the head to pursue this opportunity AND the SIM space ( clean palatte ) to drag it too while I picked it to death and redesigned, reviewed & refined. Also credit to Jayjay Zifanwe for the invitation & believing my design was credible enough to be a contender at all. This is huge for me and nothing I had sought nor considered. I'm in the company of some astounding talent in this Design Challenge.
Not shown in this image is the amazing art I've been gifted, trusted & permitted to drag in there , Art that's the life blood of the build to me. Contributors include Joshua Morane , Stephen Venkman, Bark Aabye, Keith Extraordinaire, Cariad Morgath, Bluu Jatho , Raul Crimson and myself.
Open Day viewing to be notified soon.
"This is tomorrow! AXS/lab will be an interdisciplinary, experimental collaboration between art, architecture and science. It will provide insights into the world we are shaping by putting a microscope on the research undertaken across the University of Western Australia. It will provide a showcase for the work of SymbioticA for the architects and designers from the Faculty of Architecture, Landscape & Visual Arts, the Western Australian Supercomputer Program (WASP) in Physics, Computer Science students and others on campus who are exploring new possibilities for themselves and their communities and for those working with new and emerging technologies to shape our future.
AXS/lab will incorporate a cinematheque, a black box performance / installation space, a science/art gallery, wet-labs, offices and teaching and presentation spaces for a range of activities across campus.
It will also provide a hub for the Creative Industries Innovation Centre (CIIC), of which UWA is a partner. "