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The Aberdeen Proving Ground (APG) Centennial Gala, held Friday, October 20, in Aberdeen was the culminating event of a year-long celebration of APG’s 100th Anniversary. Approximately 780 people attended the Cabaret-themed event, which featured live music, a casino, dancing, comedy, fireworks, acrobats and other performers, and an After-Party at the Speakeasy. Merritt Property, which manages the Aberdeen Corporate Park on route 22 next to the Target store, donated the use of the 90,000-square foot building for the event. U.S. Congressman Dutch Ruppersberger, MG Randy Taylor, local and state elected officials, and senior Army officials were in attendance, as were hundreds of members of the Harford and Cecil County communities.
The Gala was hosted by the APG Centennial Celebration Association, which is working to establish the APG Discovery Center in Aberdeen. This facility will house an interactive STEM educational space for learners of all ages to experience science and technology through hands-on exhibits and demonstrations.
During 2017, the APG community hosted over 150 events during 2017 to commemorative APG’s 100-year history. The Live Fire, the APG Memorial dedication, the Rosie the Riveters movie, exhibits at the college and libraries, historical talks and presentations, and Science Cafes.
Bravura Information Technologies was the presenting sponsor of the event. Additional funding was provided by Harford County Office of Economic Development, APG Federal Credit Union, SURVICE Engineering, Harford Community College, AFCEA, IRA, Association of Old Crows, Tenax Technologies, Northeastern Maryland Technology Council, Veteran Corps of America, Profile Partners, Leidos, Cray Supercomputers, CACI, ManTech, Jacobs, Adams Communication, Booz Allen, Camber, Jones Junction Greater Harford Committee, Signatech, Cecil College and many more businesses.
Latest upgrade -Cray XT Jaguar supercomputer at ORNL has increased the computer power to a petaflops -quadrillion mathematical calculations per second, Jaguar - worlds first petaflops dedicated to open research.
The new petaflops machine will make it possible to address some of the challenging scientist's problems in areas such as climate modeling, renewable energy, materials science, fusion and combustion. Jaguar is a partnership with DOE, ORNL and Cray that has pushed the computing capability at a rapid pace. The current upgrade is the result of an addition of 200 cabinets of Cray XT5 to the existing 84 cabinets of the XT4 Jaguar system.
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Se trata del superordenador más importante de España y uno de los más potentes del mundo que utiliza Iberdrola junto al Barcelona Supercomputing Center - Centro Nacional de Supercomputación para diseñar sus instalaciones eólicas con condiciones orográficas complejas, tanto terrestres como marinas (offshore) / This is the most imporant supercomputer in Spain and one of the most powerful in the world used by Iberdrola and Barcelona Supercomputing Center – Centro Nacional de Supercomputación (BSC-CNS) to design their wind infrastructures with complex orographic conditions, both onshore and offshore
Voigtländer BESSA-R, serial number 00117316.
Voigtländer Ultron 35mm f/1.7 aspherical, serial numer 9961666.
Kentmere 400.
Processing and scan by Nation Photo (forgotten roll. processed 2 years after exposure).
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1985 supercomputer. Only 30 Cray-2 were produced.
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Chip dilemma will buy Beijing precious time
The latest U.S. trade rules effectively make ultra-high-performance microprocessors used in supercomputers off limits to Chinese buyers; as are software and equipment required to make semiconductors above certain technological thresholds, including high-end memory chips from China’s YMTC.
Last year, Chinese imports of integrated circuits and related equipment topped $466 billion.
The outlook for China-dependent players in South Korea, Japan and the Netherlands is more uncertain. Memory giants Samsung Electronics (005930.KS) and SK Hynix (000660.KS) have factories inside the People's Republic and won’t be able to maintain them without a U.S. licence. Both have secured a one-year waiver from the restrictions, but what happens afterwards is unclear.
Washington policymakers are pressuring their Dutch and Japanese counterparts to also ban less sophisticated tools from ASML and Japanese peers. Both governments have agreed in principle to adopt “at least some” of the U.S restrictions, Bloomberg reported on Dec. 12. But the devil is in the details. Dutch Trade Minister Liesje Schreinemacher already said in November her government "will not copy the American measures one-to-one".
Curbs would be painful for the Veldhoven-based company: 2.7 billion euros, or 15% of total revenue, came from the People's Republic in 2021. Rival Nikon (7731.T) made sales of over 153 billion yen ($1.1 billion) in China, some 28% of total.
Slowing demand is another worry: Total chip sales will shrink 4% to $557 billion in 2023, a sharp reversal from the 26% growth in 2021, according to World Semiconductor Trade Statistics.
That will probably make companies wary of quickly and fully embracing Washington's requests. The hesitancy will play in China’s favour. It will buy it time to stockpile on foreign components and tools and help President Xi Jinping court trade partners. As Beijing knows, wars are seldom fought and won unilaterally.
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Biden’s China tech crackdown leaves Xi with few ways to hit back
The U.S. has sharpened its assault on China’s technology industry with a flurry of export bans and stifling restrictions on companies, an escalation that leaves Beijing with few options to retaliate.
Washington’s moves are part of a longer-term strategy to prevent China from dominating the industries of the future and arming its military with advanced weaponry, while also securing its tech supply chain by enticing chipmakers to set up shop in the U.S..
President Joe Biden’s administration this week escalated those efforts to hobble its main geopolitical competitor, blacklisting dozens of Chinese tech firms, while signs emerged Japan and the Netherlands are aligning with U.S. restrictions on selling crucial chipmaking equipment to China, a major blow to Beijing’s ambitions to produce advanced semiconductors.
In response, China has accused the U.S. of protectionism, lodged a complaint with the World Trade Organization and courted chip-making powerhouse South Korea, a key U.S. ally. Beijing is also reportedly preparing a multibillion-dollar aid package for its semiconductor industry, a crucial sector for the global economy given the widespread use of chips in everything from cars and mobile phones to guided missiles.
But China doesn’t have many options, or incentives, to go further.
Similar to Beijing’s actions during the trade war with former President Donald Trump’s administration — when it failed to follow through on threats to add U.S. companies to a so-called unreliable entities list — any moves to block American investment threatens an economy already reeling from President Xi Jinping’s zero-tolerance COVID-19 policies, which are only now being rolled back.
"China’s lack of good options is precisely why the U.S. is striking hard and fast now with export controls,” said Reva Goujon, a director at the Rhodium Group who advises corporate clients on U.S.-China relations and industrial policies.
The tech battle comes as U.S.-China relations have eased since hitting a low point earlier this year following a visit to Taiwan by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. After Biden and Xi met at the Group of 20 summit in Bali last month, the U.S. watered down a legislative proposal that would’ve named Taiwan a "major non-NATO ally,” a sign that Washington is trying to avoid another showdown that risks derailing the relationship.
The U.S. has "abused” export controls and import restrictions, while the new sanctions on Chinese companies "violate the commitment” that Biden made to Xi in Bali, Liu Pengyu, the spokesman for China’s embassy in Washington, said in a Friday briefing.
"From the U.S. side, they are now building walls and barriers, pushing for decoupling and severing supply chains,” Liu told reporters. "We call on the U.S. side to stop disrupting the trade of high-tech products and maintain normal China-U.S. economic and trade exchanges.”
Yet Beijing’s response to the recent U.S. moves on semiconductors has been "very reserved,” according to Henry Wang Huiyao, founder of the Center for China and Globalization, a policy research group in Beijing. The Biden-Xi talks and an upcoming visit to China by U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken have laid the groundwork for more understanding and hopefully some relaxation of sanctions, Wang added.
‘Major blow’
The new actions unveiled this week — which follow export controls announced in October aimed at preventing China’s access to machines and know-how to make high-end chips — placed a number of Chinese companies on a so-called entity list, requiring suppliers to get difficult-to-obtain U.S. government licenses.
Among the most notable firms on that list is emerging chip equipment-maker Shanghai Micro Electronics Equipment Group (SMEE), which could stifle Beijing’s efforts to create next-generation semiconductors. The machines that make semiconductors are among the most complicated devices produced by humans and defy reverse engineering, making it difficult for China to develop its own domestic capabilities if it can’t get the equipment elsewhere.
"Having SMEE on the entity list is a major blow for China’s chip sector,” said Martijn Rasser, a former analyst at the Central Intelligence Agency who’s now a senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security think tank.
"It’s the one company that Beijing saw as having potential to produce advanced chipmaking machines, which is essential for China to be a competitive force in the global semiconductor ecosystem,” he said. "Those hopes are now greatly diminished, if not dashed altogether.”
Courting allies
Under the Biden restrictions, China is severely limited in its ability to buy those chipmaking machines from abroad. The critical American gearmakers Applied Materials, Lam Research and KLA can no longer sell their advanced equipment to Chinese customers. But a complete blockade requires cooperation from Japan’s Tokyo Electron and Dutch lithography specialist ASML Holding.
Those U.S. efforts gathered momentum this week with Japan and the Netherlands nearing an agreement to join Washington in tightening controls over the export of up-to-date chipmaking machinery to China. The two governments are considering a ban on the sale of machinery capable of fabricating chips that are at least three generations behind the latest advances available on the market, in line with the rules Washington set out in October.
Also on the blacklist is China’s leading memory chipmaker, Yangtze Memory Technologies, which was once close to a deal to supply Apple, and is a competitor to Samsung Electronics and Micron Technology for mobile phone and personal computer components.
China response
Even if China wins the WTO case, the U.S. can veto any ruling by bringing it to the trade organization’s appellate body, which the Trump administration paralyzed in 2019.
China’s best option may be to pour money into developing its own high-tech chips. Beijing is preparing to unleash a $143 billion aid package for its chip industry, according to Reuters. But it’s not clear how much impact this will have, given the mixed results from the tens of billions that China has already funneled into the sector.
"They can invest more, but the issues right now are not really a lack of resources,” Adam Segal, chair in emerging technologies and national security at the Council on Foreign Relations. "It’s these technological chokepoints they are still vulnerable to.”
There’s a risk that unilateral actions could eventually alienate key U.S. partners, said Jon Bateman, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. As well, Beijing hasn’t yet shown a willingness to leverage its dominance of rare earth minerals or its role as a manufacturing hub because it "has more to lose than to gain,” he said, but that could change.
"China has a lot of capability to retaliate but very limited willingness to do so thus far,” he said. "We may be surprised when that finally happens.”
The IBM Blue Gene Supercomputer was named New York Blue and is located at Brookhaven National Laboratory.
New York Blue is the centerpiece of the New York Center for Computational Sciences (NYCCS). It is a cooperative effort between Stony Brook University and BNL. New York Blue has an 18-rack configuration, at total of 36,864 processors and 18.4 TB of memory. It is the world's fastest supercomputer for general users and is expected to rank among the top ten fastest computers in the world.
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The Aberdeen Proving Ground (APG) Centennial Gala, held Friday, October 20, in Aberdeen was the culminating event of a year-long celebration of APG’s 100th Anniversary. Approximately 780 people attended the Cabaret-themed event, which featured live music, a casino, dancing, comedy, fireworks, acrobats and other performers, and an After-Party at the Speakeasy. Merritt Property, which manages the Aberdeen Corporate Park on route 22 next to the Target store, donated the use of the 90,000-square foot building for the event. U.S. Congressman Dutch Ruppersberger, MG Randy Taylor, local and state elected officials, and senior Army officials were in attendance, as were hundreds of members of the Harford and Cecil County communities.
The Gala was hosted by the APG Centennial Celebration Association, which is working to establish the APG Discovery Center in Aberdeen. This facility will house an interactive STEM educational space for learners of all ages to experience science and technology through hands-on exhibits and demonstrations.
During 2017, the APG community hosted over 150 events during 2017 to commemorative APG’s 100-year history. The Live Fire, the APG Memorial dedication, the Rosie the Riveters movie, exhibits at the college and libraries, historical talks and presentations, and Science Cafes.
Bravura Information Technologies was the presenting sponsor of the event. Additional funding was provided by Harford County Office of Economic Development, APG Federal Credit Union, SURVICE Engineering, Harford Community College, AFCEA, IRA, Association of Old Crows, Tenax Technologies, Northeastern Maryland Technology Council, Veteran Corps of America, Profile Partners, Leidos, Cray Supercomputers, CACI, ManTech, Jacobs, Adams Communication, Booz Allen, Camber, Jones Junction Greater Harford Committee, Signatech, Cecil College and many more businesses.
ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. (Oct. 16, 2015) -- The U.S. Army introduced its newest supercomputer, Excalibur, which will help to ensure Soldiers have the technological advantage on the battlefield, officials said.
The Excalibur is the 19th most powerful computer in the world. About 50 officials gathered for a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory Department of Defense Supercomputing Resource Center.
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A TECHNICIAN WORKS ON THE RED STORM SUPERCOMPUTER AT SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORY.
Red Storm has two first place benchmarks measure the efficiency of keeping track of data (called random access memory), and of communicating data between processors. An unusual feature of Red Storm's architecture is that the computer can do both classified work with the throw of a few switches. The architecture was design by Sandia. The lab has partnered with Cray, Inc to sell 15 copies of supercomputer in various sizes to U.S. government agencies and universities, and customers in Canada, England, Switzerland, and Japan
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The Aberdeen Proving Ground (APG) Centennial Gala, held Friday, October 20, in Aberdeen was the culminating event of a year-long celebration of APG’s 100th Anniversary. Approximately 780 people attended the Cabaret-themed event, which featured live music, a casino, dancing, comedy, fireworks, acrobats and other performers, and an After-Party at the Speakeasy. Merritt Property, which manages the Aberdeen Corporate Park on route 22 next to the Target store, donated the use of the 90,000-square foot building for the event. U.S. Congressman Dutch Ruppersberger, MG Randy Taylor, local and state elected officials, and senior Army officials were in attendance, as were hundreds of members of the Harford and Cecil County communities.
The Gala was hosted by the APG Centennial Celebration Association, which is working to establish the APG Discovery Center in Aberdeen. This facility will house an interactive STEM educational space for learners of all ages to experience science and technology through hands-on exhibits and demonstrations.
During 2017, the APG community hosted over 150 events during 2017 to commemorative APG’s 100-year history. The Live Fire, the APG Memorial dedication, the Rosie the Riveters movie, exhibits at the college and libraries, historical talks and presentations, and Science Cafes.
Bravura Information Technologies was the presenting sponsor of the event. Additional funding was provided by Harford County Office of Economic Development, APG Federal Credit Union, SURVICE Engineering, Harford Community College, AFCEA, IRA, Association of Old Crows, Tenax Technologies, Northeastern Maryland Technology Council, Veteran Corps of America, Profile Partners, Leidos, Cray Supercomputers, CACI, ManTech, Jacobs, Adams Communication, Booz Allen, Camber, Jones Junction Greater Harford Committee, Signatech, Cecil College and many more businesses.
Chinook is a high performance computer that has been tailored to meet the current and future operational needs of Department of Energy EMSL users and can perform more than 160 trillion calculations per second.
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based on what i learned in engineering school, i can report with all certainty that these things are definitely real, accurate, computerish devices, which can definitely predict your relationship success based on a simple handwriting sample!!!
Mike Papka, Deputy Associate Laboratory Director for the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF) explains how the User Facility has been used to simulate phenomena from bird flu to the Deep Horizon oil spill at the Intel Xeon Phi User's Group (IXPUG) annual meeting at Argonne.
Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) is home to TITAN, the world's most powerful supercomputer for open science with a theoretical peak performance exceeding 20 petaflops (quadrillion calculations per second).
Titan will be 10 times more powerful than ORNL's last world-leading system, Jaguar, while overcoming power and space limitations inherent in the previous generation of high-performance computers. It will provide unprecedented computing power for research in energy, climate change, efficient engines, materials and other disciplines and pave the way for a range of achievements in sciences and technology.
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Latest upgrade -Cray XT Jaguar supercomputer at ORNL has increased the computer power to a petaflops -quadrillion mathematical calculations per second, Jaguar - worlds first petaflops dedicated to open research.
The new petaflops machine will make it possible to address some of the challenging scientist's problems in areas such as climate modeling, renewable energy, materials science, fusion and combustion. Jaguar is a partnership with DOE, ORNL and Cray that has pushed the computing capability at a rapid pace. The current upgrade is the result of an addition of 200 cabinets of Cray XT5 to the existing 84 cabinets of the XT4 Jaguar system.
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The Trinity supercomputer is designed to provide increased computational capability for the NNSA Nuclear Security Enterprise in support of ever-demanding workloads, e.g., increasing geometric and physics fidelities while maintaining expectations for total time to solution.
The capabilities of Trinity are required for supporting the NNSA Stockpile Stewardship program's certification and assessments to ensure that the nation's nuclear stockpile is safe, reliable, and secure.
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Retrocomputing (a portmanteau of retro and computing) is the use of early computer hardware and software today. Retrocomputing is usually classed as a hobby and recreation rather than a practical application of technology; enthusiasts often collect rare and valuable hardware and software for sentimental reasons. However some do make use of it.[1] Retrocomputing often gets its start when a computer user realizes that expensive fantasy systems like IBM Mainframes, DEC Superminis, SGI workstations and Cray Supercomputers have become affordable on the used computer market, usually in a relatively short time after the computers' era of use.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retrocomputing
Con il termine retrocomputing si indica una attività di "archeologia informatica" che consiste nel reperire, specialmente a costi minimi, computer di vecchie generazioni, che hanno rappresentato fasi importanti dell'evoluzione tecnologica, ripararli se sono danneggiati, metterli nuovamente in funzione e preservarli.
I manage a theoretical physics computing center for a living... This is a shot of part of the supercomputer, or 'compute cluster'. Canon AE-1 Program. Kodak HD 400.
Though very orange-like in appearance, a “dopplergram” image of the Sun measures millions of subtle motions on the Sun’s surface that helps us learn about movement and structure inside the Sun. It takes supercomputers to handle the calculations.
SEQUOIA EARNED THE NUMBER ONE RANKING ON THE INDUSTRY STANDARD TOP500 LIST OF THE WORLD'S FASTEST SUPERCOMPUTERS RELEASED ON JUNE 18, 2012.
Sequoia is dedicated to NNSA's Advanced Simulation and Computing program for stewardship of the nation's nuclear weapons stockpile, a joint effort from LLNL, Los Alamos and Sandia National laboratories. It is primary water cooled and consists of 96 racks; 98,304 compute nodes; 1.6 million cores; and 1.6 petabytes of memory. Sequoia was built for NNSA by IBM. It is scheduled for deployment in fall 2012.
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AT LLNL, THE SIERRA SUPERCOMPUTER WILL BE A 125-petaFLOPS (FLOATING POINT OPERATION PER SECOND) PEAK PERFORMANCE MACHINE, PROJECTED TO PROVIDE FOUR TO SIX SUSTAINED PERFORMANCE OF THE LAB’S CURRENT WORKHORSE SYSTEM SEQUOIA.
IT ROSE OUT OF DOE’S COLLABORATION OF OAK RIDGE, ARGONNE, AND LIVERMORE (CORAL) PARTNERSHIP, WHICH IS CULMINATING IN THE DELIVERY OF LARGE- SCALE, HIGH PERFORMANCE SUPERCOMPUTERS AT EACH OF THE THREE NATIONAL LABORATORIES. IT WILL FEATURE TWO IBM POWER 9 PROCESSORS AND 4 NVIDIA VOLTA GPUs PER NODE. POWER 9s WILL PROVIDE A LARGE AMOUNT OF MEMORY BANDWIDTH FROM THE CHIPS TO SIERRA’S DDR4 MAIN MEMORY AND THE LAB’S WORKLOAD WILL BENEFIT FROM THE USE OF SECOND-GENERATION NVLINK, FORMING A HIGH-SPEED CONNECTION BETWEEN THE CPUs AND GPUs.
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The Aberdeen Proving Ground (APG) Centennial Gala, held Friday, October 20, in Aberdeen was the culminating event of a year-long celebration of APG’s 100th Anniversary. Approximately 780 people attended the Cabaret-themed event, which featured live music, a casino, dancing, comedy, fireworks, acrobats and other performers, and an After-Party at the Speakeasy. Merritt Property, which manages the Aberdeen Corporate Park on route 22 next to the Target store, donated the use of the 90,000-square foot building for the event. U.S. Congressman Dutch Ruppersberger, MG Randy Taylor, local and state elected officials, and senior Army officials were in attendance, as were hundreds of members of the Harford and Cecil County communities.
The Gala was hosted by the APG Centennial Celebration Association, which is working to establish the APG Discovery Center in Aberdeen. This facility will house an interactive STEM educational space for learners of all ages to experience science and technology through hands-on exhibits and demonstrations.
During 2017, the APG community hosted over 150 events during 2017 to commemorative APG’s 100-year history. The Live Fire, the APG Memorial dedication, the Rosie the Riveters movie, exhibits at the college and libraries, historical talks and presentations, and Science Cafes.
Bravura Information Technologies was the presenting sponsor of the event. Additional funding was provided by Harford County Office of Economic Development, APG Federal Credit Union, SURVICE Engineering, Harford Community College, AFCEA, IRA, Association of Old Crows, Tenax Technologies, Northeastern Maryland Technology Council, Veteran Corps of America, Profile Partners, Leidos, Cray Supercomputers, CACI, ManTech, Jacobs, Adams Communication, Booz Allen, Camber, Jones Junction Greater Harford Committee, Signatech, Cecil College and many more businesses.
As part of the lab's new outreach initiative NERSC has started a partnership program with Oakland Technical High School's Computer Science and Technology Academy, a small academy within the larger Oakland Tech High School. On Thursday afternoon June 3rd, 12 students from Oakland Tech and their teacher Emmanuel Onyeador visited the NERSC Oakland Scientific Facility for an introduction to computational science, supercomputer architecture, and a tour of the NERSC machine room. Katie Antypas, a High Performance Computing consultant gave an overview of NERSC Center and an introduction to parallel programming explaining why science problems require such huge computers. Dave Paul, a systems engineer brought out computer nodes and parts from NERSC's older systems and demonstrated how the components have become both more dense and more power efficient as the technology has evolved over time. Each student was able to take home a piece of Seaborg, a Power3 system NERSC decommissioned a few years ago. Finally David Stewart, a network engineer, led the students on a dynamic tour of the machine room, showing not only the computational systems but lifting floor tiles to display the vast networking, cabling and piping infrastructure underneath the floor required to run a center like NERSC.
credit: Lawrence Berkeley Nat'l Lab - Roy Kaltschmidt, photographer
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Joe Curley, Sr. Director for Platform & Ecosystem Enabling at Intel presents on the 'Road to Many Core Computing' and the value of the user community at the Intel Xeon Phi User's Group (IXPUG) annual meeting at Argonne.
Jack Deslippe, acting group leader at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) covers Optimizing Codes Using the Roofline Model at the Intel Xeon Phi User's Group (IXPUG) annual meeting at Argonne.
At Argonne National Laboratory, staff works on MIRA's stacks.
An engineering marvel, the 10-petaflops machine is a capable of carrying out 10 quadrillion calculations per second. The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility is committed to delivering 786 million core scientists each year.
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Retrocomputing (a portmanteau of retro and computing) is the use of early computer hardware and software today. Retrocomputing is usually classed as a hobby and recreation rather than a practical application of technology; enthusiasts often collect rare and valuable hardware and software for sentimental reasons. However some do make use of it.[1] Retrocomputing often gets its start when a computer user realizes that expensive fantasy systems like IBM Mainframes, DEC Superminis, SGI workstations and Cray Supercomputers have become affordable on the used computer market, usually in a relatively short time after the computers' era of use.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retrocomputing
Con il termine retrocomputing si indica una attività di "archeologia informatica" che consiste nel reperire, specialmente a costi minimi, computer di vecchie generazioni, che hanno rappresentato fasi importanti dell'evoluzione tecnologica, ripararli se sono danneggiati, metterli nuovamente in funzione e preservarli.
Sebastian Buckup, Shinpei Kato, Nikolaus Lang, Angela Wang Nan speaking in the Supercomputers on Wheels session at the Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2023 in Tianjin, People's Republic of China, 28 June 2023. Tianjin Meijiang Convention Center - Room: Hub A. Copyright: World Economic Forum/Benedikt von Loebell
Retrocomputing (a portmanteau of retro and computing) is the use of early computer hardware and software today. Retrocomputing is usually classed as a hobby and recreation rather than a practical application of technology; enthusiasts often collect rare and valuable hardware and software for sentimental reasons. However some do make use of it.[1] Retrocomputing often gets its start when a computer user realizes that expensive fantasy systems like IBM Mainframes, DEC Superminis, SGI workstations and Cray Supercomputers have become affordable on the used computer market, usually in a relatively short time after the computers' era of use.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retrocomputing
Con il termine retrocomputing si indica una attività di "archeologia informatica" che consiste nel reperire, specialmente a costi minimi, computer di vecchie generazioni, che hanno rappresentato fasi importanti dell'evoluzione tecnologica, ripararli se sono danneggiati, metterli nuovamente in funzione e preservarli.
Sebastian Buckup, Shinpei Kato, Nikolaus Lang, Angela Wang Nan speaking in the Supercomputers on Wheels session at the Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2023 in Tianjin, People's Republic of China, 28 June 2023. Tianjin Meijiang Convention Center - Room: Hub A. Copyright: World Economic Forum/Benedikt von Loebell
Thomas, Grace and Wilmet (from left to right) play Foldit at the 2012 Argonne Energy Showcase to learn about folding proteins. Foldit is a revolutionary new computer game that lets players contribute to important scientific research.
Foldit was developed by the Baker Laboratory, whose Rosetta protein folding code runs on Intrepid, the IBM Blue Gene/P supercomputer at the Argonne Leadership Computing facility (ALCF).