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Cray Y-MP.
Museo de equipos antiguos del CESCA.
Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya
Centro de Servicios Científicos y Académicos de Cataluña.
Participants in the "Press Conference: Swiss Supercomputer for the SDGs" session at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2024 in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland, 17 January. Congress Centre - Briefing Center Room. Copyright: World Economic Forum/Jakob Polacsek
The sign says this weighs 3400 lbs per wing. I don’t know what constitutes one wing, but The Internet says the whole machine weighs more than 10,000 lbs.
This particular one (CDC 6500) was in operation at Purdue from 1967-1989. It was too heavy for the elevator. They had to break an outside wall and dig a pit: www.southbendtribune.com/news/local/museum-restoring-purd...
Participants in the "Press Conference: Swiss Supercomputer for the SDGs" session at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2024 in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland, 17 January. Congress Centre - Briefing Center Room. Copyright: World Economic Forum/Jakob Polacsek
Students from the High School Carmela Carvajal, visited CMM, where they attended a talk from the Laboratory of Mathomics and found out the secrets of the supercomputer Leftraru.
#757Live The Tianhe-2, which means Milky Way-2, knocks the US Energy Department's Titan machine off the No. 1 spot. It achieved 17.59 petaflops per second.
The 4 Cray J932SE computer systems in Virginia Beach, after their trip from Pittsburgh. I still have one of them, and now have the OS for it, but with the office / clubhouse / geek space gone (and no desire to pay for a new one), it sits in storage. Someday I will get it online. That is about 10,000 pounds of computer.
Diversas placas del Convex C2.
Museo de equipos antiguos del CESCA.
Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya
Centro de Servicios Científicos y Académicos de Cataluña.
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FORTUNE Brainstorm Tech
December 1st, 2021
Half Moon Bay, CA
2:50 PM
BEYOND THE SUPERCOMPUTER
Classical computing has changed the world with multiple revolutions in cloud, AI and Machine learning. But believe it or not, it’s reaching its peak. And so, the promise of Quantum technology is that it has the potential to truly help solve some of our greatest challenges - climate, supply chain shortages and inefficiencies, food insecurity, cyber vulnerabilities, and destabilization of economies. What will it take to really get there and how far are we anyway?
Speaker:
Pete Shadbolt, Co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer, PsiQuantum
Tony Uttley, President, Quantum Solutions, Honeywell
Moderator: Verne Kopytoff, FORTUNE
Photograph by Nick Otto for FORTUNE BRAINSTORM TECH
14/01/2024. The Minister for AI and Digital Government, Feryal Clark MP, visited the University of Cambridge on the day the Government announced their new AI Action Plan. On the visit, she spoke with senior stakeholders at the University, and saw the Dawn Supercomputer and Wolfson Brain Imaging Centre. Picture by Benjamin Britworth Collier / DSIT
Ragnar, Mox, and ace make it back to "The Resistance" HQ and enters LeCroix's garage. They head to his supercomputer and sees a file unopened on it. Ragnar Opens the file and LeCroix Appears on the screen.
LeCroix: If you are viewing this video, then it means I'm dead. I Recorded this message, in the event of my death. I have something important to say. Just because I'm dead, doesn't mean that "The Resistance" is screwed. I happen to know for a fact, that you all will be ok and our mission isn't over. I have something that will help each of you. Firstly, Ragnar, I have finished a car for you. It has an EMP built into it, and an instruction manual in the glove box. The keys are on the seat and it's unlocked, but it's downstairs in my sub garage and hidden. Secondly, Ace, I have gotten you a new bike. The bike is also in my sub garage. Also, I grant you admin privileges to all my computers. Thirdly, Mox, I give you full access to my workshop and infirmary.
Vex: *walks in*
LeCroix: And Finally Vex, I made you a unique weapon and give you the flying car. The Weapon is in a crate in my main garage, along with the car. *The video ends*
Vex: Nice to meet you two. Ragnar, I thought id come and tell you that I'm leaving "The Resistance".
Ragnar: Ok, well I'm off to look for my new car. *walks to the sub garage*
Ace: *follows Ragnar* I'm coming to check out the bike.
Simulation frames from this NASA Goddard neutron star merger animation: bit.ly/1jolBYY
Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
This supercomputer simulation shows one of the most violent events in the universe: a pair of neutron stars colliding, merging and forming a black hole. A neutron star is the compressed core left behind when a star born with between eight and 30 times the sun's mass explodes as a supernova. Neutron stars pack about 1.5 times the mass of the sun — equivalent to about half a million Earths — into a ball just 12 miles (20 km) across.
As the simulation begins, we view an unequally matched pair of neutron stars weighing 1.4 and 1.7 solar masses. They are separated by only about 11 miles, slightly less distance than their own diameters. Redder colors show regions of progressively lower density.
As the stars spiral toward each other, intense tides begin to deform them, possibly cracking their crusts. Neutron stars possess incredible density, but their surfaces are comparatively thin, with densities about a million times greater than gold. Their interiors crush matter to a much greater degree densities rise by 100 million times in their centers. To begin to imagine such mind-boggling densities, consider that a cubic centimeter of neutron star matter outweighs Mount Everest.
By 7 milliseconds, tidal forces overwhelm and shatter the lesser star. Its superdense contents erupt into the system and curl a spiral arm of incredibly hot material. At 13 milliseconds, the more massive star has accumulated too much mass to support it against gravity and collapses, and a new black hole is born. The black hole's event horizon — its point of no return — is shown by the gray sphere. While most of the matter from both neutron stars will fall into the black hole, some of the less dense, faster moving matter manages to orbit around it, quickly forming a large and rapidly rotating torus. This torus extends for about 124 miles (200 km) and contains the equivalent of 1/5th the mass of our sun.
Scientists think neutron star mergers like this produce short gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). Short GRBs last less than two seconds yet unleash as much energy as all the stars in our galaxy produce over one year.
The rapidly fading afterglow of these explosions presents a challenge to astronomers. A key element in understanding GRBs is getting instruments on large ground-based telescopes to capture afterglows as soon as possible after the burst. The rapid notification and accurate positions provided by NASA's Swift mission creates a vibrant synergy with ground-based observatories that has led to dramatically improved understanding of GRBs, especially for short bursts.
This video is public domain and can be downloaded at: svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a011500/a011530/index.html
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center enables NASA’s mission through four scientific endeavors: Earth Science, Heliophysics, Solar System Exploration, and Astrophysics. Goddard plays a leading role in NASA’s accomplishments by contributing compelling scientific knowledge to advance the Agency’s mission.
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045
FORTUNE Brainstorm Tech
December 1st, 2021
Half Moon Bay, CA
2:50 PM
BEYOND THE SUPERCOMPUTER
Classical computing has changed the world with multiple revolutions in cloud, AI and Machine learning. But believe it or not, it’s reaching its peak. And so, the promise of Quantum technology is that it has the potential to truly help solve some of our greatest challenges - climate, supply chain shortages and inefficiencies, food insecurity, cyber vulnerabilities, and destabilization of economies. What will it take to really get there and how far are we anyway?
Speaker:
Pete Shadbolt, Co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer, PsiQuantum
Tony Uttley, President, Quantum Solutions, Honeywell
Moderator: Verne Kopytoff, FORTUNE
Photograph by Nick Otto for FORTUNE BRAINSTORM TECH
Dad's new video card arrived today.
It's actually a lot more than a video card. It's a supercomputer!
Actually, his old GeForce 8800 GT was a supercomputer, so this one must be a superdupercomputer!
A few factoids just to give you an idea:
The original Cray-1 supercomputer sold for $9 million in 1976 and did 250 megaflops (million floating-point operations per second).
The Cray-YMP, from around 1988, was the last commercially successful Cray supercomputer. It could do some 2.4 gigaflops (billion floating-point operations per second). Dad says he actually programmed for one of those oh so long ago, and at the time (it would have been around 1997) he thought it was like the coolest thing you could do before you die!
A current, top-notch 8-core PC can do about 40 gigaflops.
Dad's old NVIDIA 8800 GT would do some 250 gigaflops for about 200 €.
This baby here, an NVIDIA GTX 285 assembled by Asus, does 500 gigaflops for 300 €... That's about 200 times faster than the Cray YMP, right inside your PC!!!
Give it to me, baby!!! :o)