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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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In this hand-processed black-and-white photograph, an IBM Blue Gene/Q compute node on the left dwarfs its predecessor, an IBM Blue Gene/P compute node. Argonne’s new IBM Blue Gene/Q supercomputer, Mira, contains 49,152 individual nodes and can perform 10 quadrillion calculations per second.
Researcher: Ed Holohan
Argonne Leadership Computing Facility
9 September 2013, Brussels
Through years of steady investment and research, high performance computing in Europe has started paying returns to many parts of the economy - aerospace, pharmaceuticals, energy, automotive, the environment and climate research. But the best could be yet to come, as computing powers worldwide jump upwards and HPC becomes an essential tool for competitiveness across the European economy. In short, supercomputers will be for all, no longer a few.
Knox College students talking with computer science faculty David Bunde (left), in daily meeting about Bunde's research project, developing software for parallel processing supercomputers.
Detail of One of the racks of the "Albert" supercomputer, installed at the Sauber windtunnel in Hinwill.
See the blog post for more info: Tour of NASA Ames Research Center
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CDC 7600 (serial number 1), Control Data Corporation, 1971
Memory: 512K (60-bit) Core
Speed: 36 MFLOPS
Cost: $5,000,000
“The CDC7600 was the follow on to the 6600, designed by Seymour Cray. About five times faster than the CDC 6600, scientific and government institutions primarily used both machines to execute large mathematical programs written in FORTRAN. Scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory used this machine to design nuclear weapons and, like most CDC customers, wrote much of their own software. A very large machine, the 7600 had over 120 miles of hand-wired interconnections. It was Freon cooled.”
Computer History Museum
Mountain View, CA
(7035)
Here, here they are all the catalogues (WorldCat and its 1 billion registries) and all the information of OCLC: isn't it amazing?
Hopper is a supercomputer housed at NERSC. The front panels of its racks are painted with a picture of Grace Hopper.
This is a derivative work of the image painted on the case, used without permission, and as such cannot be freely licensed.
August 03, 2012-Rochester: Governor Cuomo and local officials cut the ribbon to unveil one of the world’s most powerful supercomputers for health research, which will be housed at the Health Sciences Center for Computational Innovation (HSCCI) in Rochester. The HSCCI is a $100 million partnership with the University of Rochester and IBM dedicated to applying high performance computing solutions to the nation’s health challenges. Last year, the Finger Lakes Regional Economic Development Council chose the HSCCI as one of its priority projects and received $5 million in state funds for its completion.
TNT staff, overseen by IBM, move the second rack of BlueGene/Q into the VLSCI Peak Computing Facility.
This is 512 bytes from a CDC 6600, a supercomputer designed by Semour Cray (ca. 1963).
Purchased for $7 at the Computer Museum in when it was in Boston.
Using supercomputers and data mining, a team led by engineers at UC San Diego has discovered and developed a new phosphor to make LEDs with excellent color quality. Under UV light, the phosphor emits either green-yellow or blue light depending on the chemical activator that is mixed in.
Researchers published the new phosphor on Feb. 19 in the journal Joule.
Press release: jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_releases/release.sfe?id=2476
Photos by David Baillot/UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering
Cray X-MP (1991-93), 235 Mflop/s.
Museo de equipos antiguos del CESCA.
Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya
Centro de Servicios Científicos y Académicos de Cataluña.
I asked Seymour Cray, one of the key figures in the history of computing, to autograph this poster for me the summer of '96. I shook his hand, and saw the shimmer in his eyes when he smiled. As far as I know, I'm the only person that ever asked him for his autograph. He was in the building for a meeting, and I couldn't let the chance go by. Sadly, he died in October from a car crash before I got a chance to work with him or know him better. Here's a wikipedia link to more about him: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seymour_Cray . Other photos @flickr tagged: cray
The latest chapter in the story of NCAR computing begins in the fall of 2012, as the NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputing Center opens for business.
Seymour Cray's famed design, cylindrical to reduce wire lenghts. At the London Science Museum. || taken January 17, 2017 with Canon EOS 5D Mark II and EF17-40mm f/4L USM at 17, ⅕ sec at f/5.6 with 0 EV, ISO 1600 || Copyright 2010 Stephen T. Shankland
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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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!).
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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One of the guys from the install team from Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin installing the Cray XMP 24.
Cray Reseach X-MP install at GM Research, 1986
Data Center - Bull Systems.
The Diefenbunker is a four-story, 100,000 square foot underground bunker, built between 1959 and 1961. During the Cold War it was intended to house 535 Canadian government officials and military officers in the event of a nuclear war. It served as Canadian Forces Station Carp until 1994.
For years it protected us from 75 feet underground and we knew virtually nothing about it. Today, it operates as a not-for-profit, charitable museum and boasts award winning tours and programs.
25 years of turning data to discovery
Design: Benjamin Tolo, editor: Warren Froelich.
Source: San Diego Supercomputer Center, UC San Diego
A Knox College student talking with other students and computer science faculty David Bunde, in daily meeting about Bunde's research project, developing software for parallel processing supercomputers.
One of nine rows of machine cabinets for the Lemieux supercomputer at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center.
Maeslantkering storm surge barrier is a huge gate in 360-metre (nearly quarter of a mile) wide waterway controlled by a supercomputer that automatically closes when Rotterdam is threatened by floods. It is one of largest moving structures on Earth, rivaling the Green Bank Telescope in the United States and the Bagger 288 excavator in Germany.
Each of the two gates measure 22-metre high 210- metre long (72 by 690 ft) and weigh 6,800 tonnes each. They are hinged on largest ball shaped joints in the world, each with a diameter of 10 metres (33ft), and weighing 680 tonnes.
(Wikipedia: Maeslantkering [May 2019])