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The Frontier supercomputer at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory earned the top ranking on May 30, 2022, as the world’s fastest on the 59th TOP500 list, with 1.1 exaflops of performance.
The system is the first to achieve the level of computing performance known as exascale, a threshold of a quintillion calculations per second.
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You know the kind of Christmas lights where one burned-out bulb causes the whole strand to go out? This shot of the inside of the CDC 6600 (designed by Seymour Cray) shows what happens when the same design is applied to mid-1960's supercomputers.
This is a CRAY-1, an early example of a class of computers called "supercomputers." It was built by Cray Research, Inc. of Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, and installed at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado. Unlike most computers, it was hand-wired, and its circuits were arranged in a three-quarters circle. Both helped increase the speeds at which signals travel from one part of the computer to another. Hefty power supplies are located below each of the circuit bays, and the padding on them suggests a piece of lounge furniture.
At NCAR, the machine was used between 1977 and 1983, where it performed complex calculations involving the numerical modeling of weather phenomena. As the speeds of ordinary workstations increased over the years, it became obsolete and was donated to the Smithsonian.
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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It's kind of amazing to see everything to do reduced to two racks of machines. Even more so when you know just how much that is they do.
See the blog post for more info: Tour of NASA Ames Research Center
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Short video with customer examples of the highly energy efficient, cooler data center servers. From supercomputers to web and game hosting.
The Cray was a supercomputer designed with functionality in mind: as in, this thing is huge, let's build a bench around it so people can chill out! There's actually machinery underneath the cushion part. Here, I am sitting on it.
Der Zugang zur "Königin"
Supercomputer sind laut, lange sollte man nicht ohne Gehörschutz drinbleiben.
2013. Deputy Division Director Susan Coghlan works with Mira, the fifth-fastest supercomputer in the world, at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility.
Photographing the VLSCI and IBM staff photographing the arrival of the the second rack of VLSCI's new IBM BlueGene/Q supercomputer.
Photographer: Stefano Marzoli
Black and white sockets of the dual power supply of the supercomputer processors in ECMWF's data centre, Italy.
For more information about our supercomputing facilities, see www.ecmwf.int/en/computing/our-facilities.
This simulation shows ice spreading through a water droplet. The image is a real scientific model that’s being developed on Titan, the #1 ranked supercomputer in the U.S. Video credits: Mike Matheson (Oak Ridge National Lab) Read More: www.gereports.com/cool-computing/
Three testbed machine for Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s future exascale El Capitan supercomputer – nicknamed rzVernal, Tioga and Tenaya – all ranked among the top 200 on the latest Top500 List of the world’s most powerful computers, released at the International Supercomputing Conference on May 30, 2022.
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The area behind the racks containing Hopper, a supercomputer at NERSC. Each is labelled with blue tape and a handwritten alphanumeric identifier.
Exploration of sound visualizations at "Stallion", 328 Megapixel Tiled Display System at TACC (Texas Advanced Computer Center).
Video: vimeo.com/100684899
Visuals in Processing using "Massive Pixel Environment", a library for extending Processing sketches to multi-node tiled displays. tacc.github.io/MassivePixelEnvironment/
This library is developed from scratch at the TACC/ACES Visualization Lab with inspiration from Most Pixels Ever, developed by Daniel Shiffman.
Processing project at Github: github.com/visiophone/staliumVizz
Music: Submersible by LordX / Tim Stutts (lordx.bandcamp.com/)
TACC tacc.utexas.edu/resources/visualization
Thanks Rob Turknet (@robturknett ) and the rest of TACC crew for helping me setting up the system and to João Beira (datagrama.webs.com/) for helping with the camera.
This is one of the artifacts found in the Computer History Museum.
This is the Cray supercomputer. Amazing how fast and powerful it was at the time.
When introduced in 1966, the CDC 6600 was the fastest computer in the world. Designed by Seymour Cray, it executed about 3,000,000 instructions per second and remained th fastest machine for five years, until Cray produced his next supercomputer, the 7600.
The elegant architecture of the 6600 included one 60-bit central processor with multiple functional units coupled to ten shared-logic 12-bit peripheral I/O processors. The machine was Freon cooled. Selling for $6 to $10 million each, Contral Data Corporation (CDC) manufactured about 100 machines.
This was a gift of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
An old Cray 2 at museum of Arts and Metiers in Paris. I used to think these things were fast... Now a standard workstation is probably just as fast (if not faster).
In a far away Galaxy, a supremely advanced society has implemented a Quantum Entangled Telescope allowing them to peek across vast distances and relay unfathomable amounts of information instantly.
See the blog post for more info: Tour of NASA Ames Research Center
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Researchers are using computational quantum chemistry and deep learning methods to detect previously unidentified molecules for metabolomics and exposomics research.
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Stranger #42/100 - Fabian (Blackbeards) - Kandidat1
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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!).
Diese zusätzlich erstellte Schwarz-Weiss-Variante kaschiert dieses Problem und steht deshalb hier zum Vergleich mit den farbigen Versionen 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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