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Arsenal (Vienna)

The Vienna Arsenal, object 1

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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.

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Rick Stevens, Associate Laboratory Director for Computing, Environment and Life Science (CELS), reveals details on two Argonne projects that are 'Drivers of Many Core' at the Intel Xeon Phi User's Group (IXPUG) annual meeting at Argonne.

2004: Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility

 

DOE’s High-End Computing Revitalization Act of 2004 authorizes America’s Leadership Computing Facilities. The Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) is the first, established at ORNL with the mission of building a supercomputer 100 times more powerful than leading systems. DOE announces in May 2004 that the OLCF will lead the project to build the world’s most powerful supercomputer. Read more...

 

Panel discussion on 'Early Experiences with Intel's Knights Landing' processor at the Intel Xeon Phi User's Group (IXPUG) annual meeting at Argonne.

 

(from left) Lars Koesterke (Texas Advanced Computing Center), Jack Deslippe (National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center) and Tim Williams (Argonne Leadership Computing Facility).

Intel Xeon Phi User's Group (IXPUG) annual meeting at Argonne. attendee.

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).

Roll number 01150.

 

1985 supercomputer. Only 30 Cray-2 were produced.

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Musée des arts et métiers, Paris:

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JAGUAR SUPERCOMPUTER AT OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY, IS THE WORLD'S FIRST PETAFLOPS DEDICATED TO OPEN RESEARCH.

 

The new petaflops machine makes it possible to address some of the challenging scientist's problems in areas such as climate modeling, renewable energy, materials science, fusion and combustion. 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. Jaguar is a partnership with DOE, ORNL and Cray that has pushed the computing capability at a rapid pace.

 

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Pavan Balaji, computer scientist within Argonne's Mathematics and Computer Science division, presents on 'Advance MPI programing' at the Intel Xeon Phi User's Group (IXPUG) annual meeting at Argonne.

Verónica Vergara Larrea isn’t new to troubleshooting, but a task as big as a supercomputer takes a plan and a team. Her team just completed acceptance of approximately 25 percent of the final system.

 

This is a schematic showing coarse-grained (purple) and fine-grained particles, representing the chains of hemoglobin molecules that form in sickle red blood cells. (Image credit: Brown University)

 

Read more: www.olcf.ornl.gov/2018/01/17/faces-of-summit-putting-the-...

 

Image credit: Jason Richards/ORNL

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.

 

The Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility hosted Women in Computing's "Introduce Your Daughter to Code" for the second time on June 16, giving daughters of staff members at ORNL a chance to engage in fun programming activities and code on the Cray XK7 Titan supercomputer. This year, 25 girls ages 10 to 18 participated in the labwide event.

 

OLCF User Support Specialist Suzanne Parete-Koon kicked off the event with an introduction to parallel computing and Titan before ORNL intern Dasha Herrmannova and ORNL postdoctoral research associate Anne Berres walked the girls through the basics of coding in Python.

 

Katie Schuman, a Liane Russell Distinguished Early Career Fellow, helped the girls use a program called fractalName to generate colored fractals—repeating patterns that form shapes—based on their names and ages. The fractals were displayed on the visualization wall in the Exploratory Visualization Environment for Research in Science and Technology, or EVEREST. The girls also used Schuman's Birthday Pi code to find their birthdays in the first 100,000 digits of the number pi.

 

"It was really exciting to see the girls' enthusiasm and curiosity when they were coding," Katie says. "Seeing them already thinking creatively about the code is the most rewarding thing to me."

 

After they coded on the leadership-class machine, the girls explored the interactive Tiny Titan, which features eight Raspberry Pi processors and provides a visual simulation of a liquid in space. Tiny Titan demonstrates how additional nodes in a compute system can increase the speed of a simulation.

 

Katie says the feedback WiC continues to receive about the event will inform future coding activities. "Some of the parents have already said the girls wanted to download everything and keep playing with the code when they got home," she says. "There is already a desire for the next phase. We will definitely continue running the same curriculum and possibly expand it in the future."

 

The following staff members contributed to "Introduce Your Daughter to Code:" Berres, Harken, Herrmannova, Parete-Koon, Schuman, Megan Bradley, Kate Carter, Amy Coen, Katherine Engstrom, Megan Fielden, Shang Gao and Ashley Nguyen.

 

Image credit: Genevieve Martin/ORNL

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s Vulcan supercomputer is now available for collaborative work with industry and research universities. Operating at 5 petaflops (quadrillion floating point operations per second), Vulcan raises the amount of computing at LLNL available for external collaborations by an order of magnitude.

 

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2012: Titan, world's most powerful supercomputer

 

The Titan supercomputer replaces the Jaguar supercomputer at ORNL. For a time, it ranks first on the TOP500 as the world's fastest supercomputer and consistently ranks as America's fastest supercomputer. Titan features a unique hybrid architecture with central processing units, or CPUs, and graphics processing units, or GPUs. Read more...

 

To develop a model of a gene transcription preinitiation complex, researchers combined data from cryo-electron microscopy (CryoEM)—a structural biology method that uses an electron beam to study cryogenically frozen protein samples—and large-scale molecular dynamics simulations on the OLCF’s Summit supercomputer.

 

The team created a new visualization that shows a new structure of the human preinitiation complex. The spheres correspond to the positions of patient-derived mutations color-coded by disease phenotype. Credit: Ivaylo Ivanov, Georgia State University

 

Read more: www.olcf.ornl.gov/2019/05/20/summit-charts-a-course-to-un...

22/01/2026. Bristol . The Prince and Princess of Wales Visits Bristol, UK. The Prince of Wales visits the University of Bristol’s Isambard-AI supercomputer at the National Composites Centre. His Royal Highness met scientists exploring how the technology could support drug discovery and help predict extreme weather events. Isambard-AI has been designed with sustainability at its core, using energy-efficient systems to reduce environmental impact. While at NCC, His Royal Highness also saw a paracanoe seat developed for Paralympic champion Emma Wiggs MBE. Picture by Andrew Parsons / Kensington Palace

Auburn University’s new $1 million supercomputer will enhance research across campus, from microscopic gene sequencing to huge engineering tasks. Pictured is just a portion of the supercomputer.

THIS TERAFLOPS COMPUTER AT DOE'S PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY IS THE FASTEST UNCLASSIFIED SUPERCOMPUTER IN THE UNITED STATES.

 

LOCATED AT PNNL'S WILLIAM R. WILEY ENVIRONMENTAL MOLECULAR SCIENCES LAB, THIS 11.8 TERAFLOPS INDUSTRY STANDARD HP INTEGRITY SYSTEM IS THE FIFTH FASTEST SYSTEM IN THE WORLD AND THE FASTEST UNCLASSIFIED COMPUTER IN THE U.S. THE ADDITIONAL POWER AND SPEED WILL ENABLE NOVEL STUDIES IN ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY, CLIMATE AND SUBSURFACE CHEMISTRY, SYSTEMS BIOLOGY, CATALYSIS AND MATERIALS SCIENCE.

  

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Synopsis

-(MCMLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday.

-Apple Computer Company is formed by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak.

-Logan's Run Directed by Michael Anderson is released.

-Cray-1, the first commercially developed supercomputer, invented by Seymour Cray

-The first commercial Concorde flight takes off.

-Paris Wine Tasting of 1976 revolutionizes world of wine.

-Colin Farrell, Irish actor, is born.

This simulation, with over 1 billion dark matter and star particles, uses a flux-limited diffusion solver to explore the radiation hydrodynamics of early galaxies, in particular, the ionizing radiation created by Population III stars.

 

Science:

Robert Harkness, San Diego Supercomputer Center

Daniel R. Reynolds, Southern Methodist University

Michael L. Norman, San Diego Supercomputer Center

Rick Wagner, San Diego Supercomputer Center

 

Visualization:

Mark Hereld (MCS)

Joseph A. Insley (MCS)

Eric C. Olson, University of Chicago

Michael E. Papka (CELS)

Venkatram Vishwanath (MCS)

Intel Xeon Phi User's Group (IXPUG) annual meeting at Argonne. attendee.

The Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility hosted Women in Computing's "Introduce Your Daughter to Code" for the second time on June 16, giving daughters of staff members at ORNL a chance to engage in fun programming activities and code on the Cray XK7 Titan supercomputer. This year, 25 girls ages 10 to 18 participated in the labwide event.

 

OLCF User Support Specialist Suzanne Parete-Koon kicked off the event with an introduction to parallel computing and Titan before ORNL intern Dasha Herrmannova and ORNL postdoctoral research associate Anne Berres walked the girls through the basics of coding in Python.

 

Katie Schuman, a Liane Russell Distinguished Early Career Fellow, helped the girls use a program called fractalName to generate colored fractals—repeating patterns that form shapes—based on their names and ages. The fractals were displayed on the visualization wall in the Exploratory Visualization Environment for Research in Science and Technology, or EVEREST. The girls also used Schuman's Birthday Pi code to find their birthdays in the first 100,000 digits of the number pi.

 

"It was really exciting to see the girls' enthusiasm and curiosity when they were coding," Katie says. "Seeing them already thinking creatively about the code is the most rewarding thing to me."

 

After they coded on the leadership-class machine, the girls explored the interactive Tiny Titan, which features eight Raspberry Pi processors and provides a visual simulation of a liquid in space. Tiny Titan demonstrates how additional nodes in a compute system can increase the speed of a simulation.

 

Katie says the feedback WiC continues to receive about the event will inform future coding activities. "Some of the parents have already said the girls wanted to download everything and keep playing with the code when they got home," she says. "There is already a desire for the next phase. We will definitely continue running the same curriculum and possibly expand it in the future."

 

The following staff members contributed to "Introduce Your Daughter to Code:" Berres, Harken, Herrmannova, Parete-Koon, Schuman, Megan Bradley, Kate Carter, Amy Coen, Katherine Engstrom, Megan Fielden, Shang Gao and Ashley Nguyen.

To get a molecular-level understanding of nanobubble collapse near a solid surface, Priya Vashishta and his colleagues at the University of Southern California used Argonne's supercomputers to simulate and unravel the complex mechanochemistry problem. The goal of this nanobubble collapse simulation, which was run on 163,840 cores, was to improve both the safety and longevity of nuclear reactors.

 

Science contributors:

Priya Vashishta, University of Southern California

Ken-ichi Nomura, University of Southern California

Adarsh Shekhar, University of Southern California

 

Visualization contributor:

Joseph A. Insley, Argonne

 

Tutorials at ISC 2017 in Frankfurt, Germany (copyright: Philip Loeper)

Olivetti Philos 44

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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.

 

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Mosaic, the first popular graphical browser for the world wide web, was created by Marc L. Andreesen and Eric J. Bina at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA). Upon its 1993 release to the public, Mosaic gave Internet users easy access to Multimedia sources of information. Web browsers have transformed the exchange of information.

34 million computing hours a year. That's the processing power of the powerful high-performing supercomputer that was inaugurated on September 24 in Trieste, as an anticipation of Trieste Next. The project was developed by SISSA within an agreement with ICTP, and the machine is housed at the “old” SISSA headquarters in via Beirut 2-4. The inauguration provides an occasion to illustrate some applications of supercomputing in industry and science, and to present the new Master's in High Performance Computing, MHPC.

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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At the home of America’s most powerful supercomputer, the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF), researchers often simulate millions or billions of dynamic atoms to study complex problems in science and energy.

 

Finding fast, user-friendly ways to organize and analyze all this data is the job of the OLCF Advanced Data and Workflow Group and computer scientists like Benjamín Hernández, who developed a new visualization tool called SIGHT for OLCF users.

 

This SIGHT visualization is from a project led by University of Virginia’s Leonid Zhigilei to explore how lasers transform a metal surface.

 

Read more: www.olcf.ornl.gov/2018/02/07/new-discoveries-within-sight/

 

See the blog post for more info: Tour of NASA Ames Research Center

 

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Yet another OLD photo no one has seen...biding time until a new supercomputer finally arrives.

 

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.

Mike Papka, Deputy Associate Laboratory Director for the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF) presents on the facility's status and future plans at the Intel Xeon Phi User's Group (IXPUG) annual meeting at Argonne.

See the blog post for more info: Tour of NASA Ames Research Center

 

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(Sigh. You never learn, do you, Andy? Have them tilt the circuit board a little so that it isn't completely blown out by the flash.)

 

I say this completely without sarcasm or a trace of self-consciousness: I think circuit boards from big old computers are legitimately beautiful. Provenance on this one is uncertain. I believe it's a controller board from a CDC 6600. If it is, it's a historically cool item: the 6600 was designed by Seymore Cray himself and is considered to be possibly the world's first supercomputer.

 

If not, it was definitely the first influential one. Cray set up something like a "skunk works" operation at Control Data and a small team of a few dozen engineers knocked the whole thing out. It was a revolutionary approach to computing and was several times faster than the next most powerful thing on the market.

 

So. Yes, I came home with this. I held it in my hands lovingly, appraising its form and lines like a work of art.

 

Very cool sellers, incidentally: they were big wheels at both DEC and the Computer Museum. I think if I hadn't shown up so early -- this was taken a few minutes before the Flea opened -- I would have missed out completely. They had already sold most of their cool stuff by the time I'd come along.

 

(When someone at the Flea has core memory for sale...that information does not stay private for very long.)

 

The board is now sitting on my mantlepiece while I ponder a more permanent location and system of hanging. It might just stay where it is.

The first Cray 1-A supercomputer ever sold. The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) purchased it in 1977 for $8 million. It was retired in 1989.

Entry in category 1. Object of study; Copyright CC-BY-NC-ND: Rossinelli Diego

 

The subarachnoid space of the optic nerve features trabeculae that bridges the meningeal layers. The function of such structures remains poorly understood and is thought to play a central role in the physiology and pathophysiology of the eye. Synchrotron-radiation micro-computed tomography at PSI, together with the most accurate computational schemes running on the supercomputer at EPFL, hold the promise of shedding light on the mystery concealed by this tract of the white matter.

 

PI: Christos Frouzakis, Swiss Fed. Inst. Tech.

 

Volume renderings of instantaneous mixture fraction, temperature and hydroperoxy (HO_2) radical concentration (left to right) of an autoigniting hydrogen jet in a coflowing stream of turbulent heated air.

 

The images were created by Stefan Kerkemeier on the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility's visualization system, Eureka.

Yes, I'm a nerd and took a picture of a computer. But it is a really sweet computer.

One of the most iconic designs of all computers has to be the round cray-1 supercomputer with the usefull seating around the computer

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