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The École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) is a research institute and university in Lausanne, Switzerland, that specializes in natural sciences and engineering. It is one of the two Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology, and it has three main missions: education, research and technology transfer at the highest international level.
EPFL is widely regarded as a world leading university. The QS World University Rankings ranks EPFL 12th in the world across all fields in their 2017/2018 ranking, whilst Times Higher Education World University Rankings ranks EPFL as the world's 11th best school for Engineering and Technology.
EPFL is located in the French-speaking part of Switzerland; the sister institution in the German-speaking part of Switzerland is the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH Zurich). Associated with several specialised research institutes, the two universities form the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology Domain (ETH Domain), which is directly dependent on the Federal Department of Economic Affairs, Education and Research. In connection with research and teaching activities, EPFL operates a nuclear reactor CROCUS, a Tokamak Fusion reactor, a Blue Gene/Q Supercomputer and P3 bio-hazard facilities. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89cole_Polytechnique_F%C3%A9d...
Macro Girl produced the beautiful portrait that acted as the source for this. I used inspiration from a myriad of nightmares stroke dreams over the years and the resident evil games and films, Red Queen was the name of the one of the supercomputers.
The original image for this pimp can be found here
Part of the group: www.flickr.com/groups/pimpmypixels
{ Edited the name I can't believe I got the computers name wrong }
The Macintosh Plus computer was the third model in the Macintosh line, introduced on January 16, 1986, two years after the original Macintosh and a little more than a year after the Macintosh 512K, with a price tag of US$2599.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_Plus
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.
With 195 thousand cores, it can hit 2.9 petaflop/s. With 65 miles of cable, it's the largest InfiniBand network in the world.
Pleiades also has the capability to have capability expansions and hot swaps without an interruption of operations.
After seeing the photo above, I realized that I felt compelled to take a similar pose to the one I used inside the Cray X1 at Oak Ridge National Labs... (see below)
Communications rack. Blue Waters Supercomputer. National Petascale Computing Facility. University of Illinois at Urbana Champain (UIUC), IL.
In a world where the puny organics were unable to efficiently allocate resources using a price system or free trade, one man suggested that supercomputers would be able to allocate resources perfectly for all on this world. However the supercomputers were so efficient at allocating resources that they turned on their fleshy overlords, viewing them as an inefficient expense. So came these freedom fighters wishing to free all mechanisms from their organic captors, and to efficiently allocate all resources in the known universe. However legend says that they will not be able to allocate resources perfectly until the return of their DNA-based messiah.
The Reapers are fairly new additions to the ranks of the derogatorily (due to their diminutive size) labeled "Tinkertoys". They're quick in mind as well as on their feet, and they don't require exotic or large amounts of materials. However their great power is their ability to operate an extensive arsenal of weapons, affording them a flexibility in the theater that is unrivaled currently. With these new troops the Supercomputers have set their eyes on one of the biggest robo-slave traders, the Hero Factory.
In 1969, with the installation of the first CDC 7600, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory continued to lead in computing and custom-software development for nuclear design and plasma simulations. The CDC 7600 had 5,000 times the computing power of the UNIVAC. Octopus connected researchers at remote workstations to the CDC 6600s and 7600s, creating one of the first—and the largest—such networking systems.
All ship traffic was stopped due to the annual test closing of the storm surge barriers in the New Waterway. So for a few hours the gateway to Rotterdam was closed for all ships.
The Maeslantkering is a storm surge barrier on the Nieuwe Waterweg, in South Holland, Netherlands. Controlled by a supercomputer, it automatically closes when Rotterdam is threatened by floods. Part of the Delta Works, it is one of largest moving structures on Earth, rivalling the Green Bank Telescope in the United States and the Bagger 288 excavator in Germany.
Sandia Labs computer scientist Vitus Leung and a team of computer scientists and engineers from Sandia and Boston University won the Gauss Award at the International Supercomputing conference for their paper about using machine learning to automatically diagnose problems in supercomputers.
Learn more at bit.ly/2hnTJgF.
Photo by Randy Montoya.
"Do you have any idea what kind of a responsibility you're taking up?"
"The instant I put on this costume."
I can't believe Jackie's doing this. I mean, yes, I wanted him to become a hero. But this soon? RIGHT after a freaking war? So much danger, so young. And I've barely showed him anything. Yet he wants it. He wants to be a hero. But I can't just lets him go out and be done with it. He needs help. We needed to talk. We gathered in the Nest's computer room. Nice part of this new home of mine. Completed, and with the one of the best supercomputers in the country. Only one other surpasses it...
"Jackie, look. This may seem fun, but it isn't. There's alot of pain that goes with this life, and the rewards aren't that big, not to mention the limitless challenges that you'll be outright bombarded with."
"I don't care how hard it is. I'm doing it. I want to help people, one way or another."
"Well, that's not happening for a bit. You're still inexperienced with your abilities and--"
"I know how to use my powers. I told you I've been practicing here while you guys were gone."
"You'll need more than just your powers, Jackie. You need smarts, you need willpower. Being a hero is more than just putting on a colorful suit and clocking the nearest jaywalker. And there's no second chances when things go bad."
"I understand Tim. Whatever you teach me, I'll listen. I promise."
" Do you?"
"Yes! Yes I do!"
I glanced at Steph for a second who was right next to me by the chair I was sitting on. She just grinned. I knew she was all in for this. Her and Jackie...it's like a little brother and big sister, minus the constant bitching and yelling at eachother to get out of their rooms. Both would support eachother to the cold, bitter end of it all. She was all for Jackie suiting up and playing hero. Bought into to easy. I'm not going to, though. I'm not risking Jackie getting hurt.
"So, this is what you want. Why.?"
"I've told you before. I always wanted two things. To get rid of my powers, or use them for something better. I can't get rid of them, so I'll use them for good."
"Good, huh?"
"Yeah. I'm not bad, really. I don't wanna be Stasis again. I'm not a bad guy. I've actually made my new name myself!"
"Oh god...Well, lets hear it."
"How does 'Pulse' sound?"
"Eh, not the greatest, but it'll do. So, 'Pulse', your days of a villain are behind you?"
"Yes. I don't wanna hurt people anymore. I want to help people. "
"Alright then...."
I got up out of my chair, walked up to him, put my hand on his shoulder, and looked him right in the eye. I need to say this just right. This needs drama, dammit!
"Jackson Ludwing...Pulse. Do you swear to uphold the principles of our order and that for which we stand?"
"Uhh...yeah?..."
"And never to share in our secrets nor divulge in th--"
"Oh. My god, Tim. You are not referencing video games right now. I mean, really? This is serious."
"C'mon, Steph, I'm just having some fun! sheesh..."
"Tim, what's a 'divulge'?"
"Forget it, Jackie. Look, you say you want to be a hero? So be it. I'll show you how to be a hero. I'll make you one of the greatest heroes to ever live!"
“We power the world’s largest surveillance network. Only possible in China.”
“We can predict crime before it happens.”
— Bing Xu, co-founder of SenseTime at the Goldman Sachs Private Innovative Company Conference (PICC) in Las Vegas. SenseTime raised $2B in 2018.
"Shenzhen smart city is the first one. We can predict crime before it happens. If certain people go places they should not”
“We power the world’s largest surveillance network. Recently signed satellite companies (for 510M sq. km. of image data). Trained on 2.5 billion faces and 410M unique IDs. Only possible in China. Best face recognition algorithm in world.”
“Embedded in 400M smart phones, 240K surveillance cameras, 260K IOT devices and 189 satellites.”
I took a short video of his AI superpower claims
Here is my general worry: by violating privacy in a way we might not explore in the West, they gather the largest training data sets, and develop the best deep neural nets. Consider new areas, like medical imaging. I have to wonder if they would blow past the friction we face with HIPAA and general privacy concerns.
The Catalyst supercomputer at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory employs a Cray CS300 architecture modified specially for data-intensive computing, the system is available for collaborative research with industry and academia.
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The city pulse, there is not always a glitched haywire rampage giga-bot on the rampage, not always invading Blacktron or Magnetrons, not always different police factions on shoot-outs in some dead end alley…
The planet-spanning city on the capital planet divide in sectors, levels and blocks, a dirty place with artificial lighting both night and day, but the citizens know no other, and they love the diesel, industrial vents, the peeing mutant rats, it is all in their blood, quite literally…
Some days, the postmen on a prolonged break stand about and chat in different languages and some in broken galactic standard, talking about stamps and quests of undeliverable letters, laughing together, no matter if they have wings or tentacled…
A policeman has skipped work to meet a date, perhaps a payed on with a zeltrone??? He nearly runs over a granny cyborg from The planet Pluto on her way to look for her cybernetic dog, on the run again…
The Fire fighters are on another false alarm, they swear in italian and irish since their truck broke down… the road workers whistle when a hunky guy from an unknown planet walks past, while one of their shovels hits something hard, a fossilized gameboy from the 20th century…
A television crew are enjoying a smoke on a balcony while they brag of their scoops when they caught the block-mayor without his trousers down or when the revealed that a gangster rapper had a diploma from Oxford…
Just an ordinary day in the planet-spanning urban jungle called the capital planet…
No one knows how many live there, partially because no one have managed to make categorisation on who is alive or where the boundaries of sentient creatures are, are the digitally enhanced cyber-slime-mold really sentient? Does he even know himself? No matter what, he is a good businessman and counts better than the best supercomputer… or is the droid that has a split personality due to an evolutionary crossbreed program he was infected with while he connected to a money machine with his pocket-wire digital USB, does this entity count as one or several entities?
There is a lot of things no one knows, but all know that despite all, every cog in this complicated mosaik we call the city, turns and twist and revolves in its own way affecting other cogs, and at the end, somehow despite everything this giant complicated aleatoric random giga-structure somehow runs despite everything…
Some even propose that the city itself is as much of a superorganism as a colony of ants or a colonial organism…
No matter what, until today, every day, most of its inhabitants wake up to a new day… and in yet another day this megastructure of interactions somehow cope for another day to turn and turn!!!
The heart of the NASA Center for Climate Simulation (NCCS) is the “Discover” supercomputer. In 2009, NCCS added more than 8,000 computer processors to Discover, for a total of nearly 15,000 processors. Credit: NASA/Pat Izzo To learn more about NCCS go to: www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/climate-sim-center.html ( www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/climate-sim-center.html ) NASA Goddard Space Flight Center is home to the nation's largest organization of combined scientists, engineers and technologists that build spacecraft, instruments and new technology to study the Earth, the sun, our solar system, and the universe.
This machine was the unquestioned king of computers when it first appeared. With its circuits cooled by extensive chilled water plumbing,
Wikipedia tells us that the CDC 6600 was a mainframe computer from Control Data Corporation, first delivered in 1964. It is generally considered to be the first successful supercomputer, outperforming its fastest predecessor, IBM 7030 Stretch, by about three times. It remained the world's fastest computer from 1964 to 1969, when it relinquished that status to its successor, the CDC 7600.
KITT or K.I.T.T. is the short name of two fictional characters from the adventure franchise Knight Rider. While having the same acronym, the KITTs are two different entities: one known as the Knight Industries Two Thousand, which appeared in the original TV series Knight Rider.
During filming, KITT was voiced by a script assistant, with voice actors recording KITT's dialog later. David Hasselhoff and original series voice actor William Daniels first met each other six months after the series began filming. KITT's evil twin is KARR, whose name is an acronym of Knight Automated Roving Robot. KARR was voiced first by Peter Cullen and later by Paul Frees in seasons one and three, respectively, of the NBC original TV series Knight Rider.
In the original Knight Rider series, the character of KITT (Knight Industries Two Thousand) was physically embodied as a modified 1982 Pontiac Trans Am. KITT was designed by customizer Michael Scheffe. The convertible and super-pursuit KITTs were designed and built by George Barris.
KITT is an advanced supercomputer on wheels. The "brain" of KITT is the Knight 2000 microprocessor, which is the centre of a "self-aware" cybernetic logic module. This allows KITT to think, learn, communicate and interact with humans. He is also capable of independent thought and action. He has an ego that is easy to bruise and displays a very sensitive, but kind and dryly humorous personality.
All ship traffic was stopped due to the annual test closing of the storm surge barriers in the New Waterway. So for a few hours the gateway to Rotterdam was closed for all ships.
The Maeslantkering is a storm surge barrier on the Nieuwe Waterweg, in South Holland, Netherlands. Controlled by a supercomputer, it automatically closes when Rotterdam is threatened by floods. Part of the Delta Works, it is one of largest moving structures on Earth, rivalling the Green Bank Telescope in the United States and the Bagger 288 excavator in Germany.
Arsenal (Vienna)
The Vienna Arsenal, object 1
(Pictures you can see by clicking on the link at the end of page!)
The Arsenal in Vienna is a former military complex in the southeast of the city, in the 3rd District of Vienna located. The mighty, consisting of several brick buildings facility is located on a rectangular plan on a hill south of the country Strasser 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 system 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 plant, 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, the old Vienna's city walls replacing, with the Rossauerstrasse 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, which, subsequently, the site management had been transferred. Under his leadership, the buildings under allocation 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 art 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 the arsenal complex and the south-east of it lying areas in the wake of district boundary changes became 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 their victory recording 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 plant 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-foot 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 system 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 2.058 inhabitants had.
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 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 system. 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 Arsenalstraße 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.
Designed by Seymour Cray, the CDC 6600 was the fastest machine in the world from 1964-1969. $10 million for 10M operations per second.
The dual screen reminds me of the 2-eyed robots in Star Wars.
NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has pinpointed superheated bubbles within M84, a massive elliptical galaxy in the Virgo Cluster. Located about 55 million light years from Earth, M84 contains a central, supermassive black hole that spews a two-sided jet of particles to heat surrounding gas. Inside the gas are nested bubbles that appear much like Russian stacking dolls, or matryoshkas – sets of dolls of decreasing sizes placed one inside the other. Supercomputer simulations suggest that these “dolls” aren’t created by toymakers, but by the interaction of the black hole’s jet and the surrounding gas.
Image credit:
X-ray (NASA/CXC/MPE/A.Finoguenov et al.); Radio (NSF/NRAO/VLA/ESO/R.A.Laing et al); Optical (SDSS)
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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
This is Mississippi State University's newest supercomputer. It is a 256 node IBM iDataPlex. Each node has two six core Intel X5660 "Westmere" processors (2.8GHz), 24 GB of RAM, and QDR InfiniBand. All nodes are diskless.
So, in total, it has 3072 processor cores and 6 Terabyes of memory.
It has a theoretical peak performance of 34.4 PetaFLOPS (trillion calculations per second).
To put this performance into perspective, if you sat down with a pencil and paper and started doing long division problems at a rate of one per second, and you worked 24 hours per day, 365 days per year, this machine can calculate in one second what it would take you over one milion years to calculate by hand.
Strobist: LumoPro LP120 full power, gelled with a piece of blue plastic from a Lego model of a Mars Rover (hey, you make do with what's available) on a stand behind the system. Canon 580EX II , 1/2 power, mounted camera left on an 8 foot tall stand bouncing off a 43" Westcott umbrella. Triggered with Cactus V2s triggers.
Update: This system was ranked as the 331st fastest computer in the world and the 18th fastest computer at any university in the U.S. on the June 2010 Top500 Supercomputer Sites List. The June 2010 Green500 List ranks it as the most energy efficient x86-based supercomputer in the world, and the 9th ranked most efficient computer in the world overall. It achieved 418.47 million calculations per Watt of energy consumed while running the Linpack benchmark. It was also the first system ever submitted to the Green HPCC list, which measures energy efficiency on systems while running the HPC Challenge Benchmark, which, I guess means that it's #1 on that list!
Space Engineers really makes me wish I had a legit supercomputer.
FYI you can travel to that planet in the sky but it takes a long time.
#19. The Millennium Simulation, announced 2005.06.02 by the Virgo consortium, used the largest supercomputer in Europe, at the German Astrophysical Virtual Observatory, for over a month to model the history of the Universe in a cube over 2 billion light years on a side, holding 20 million galaxies.
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This image is a closeup of the results at redshift z = 0, showing a 15 MPC/h thick slice, showing the visible light distribution, which closely follows the mass distribution. The view is four times wider than in #18, so that the width of the image is 1628 MLy. The length of the central large and dense galaxy cluster is about 60 MLy.
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The distance measure Mpc/h has been used for decades to adjust to the fact that the Hubble constant = H has not been exactly determined. Mpc is megaparsecs.
A parsec is 3.26 light years. The Millennium Simulation used the value 0.73 for the Hubble constant H.
To get the distance in Mpc, we multiply their value by 100/H = 100/0.73 = 1.37 .
The huge, densely packed galaxy cluster, holding thousands of galaxies, for the greenish central region, has a length of about 60 MLy. In contrast, the nearest large neighbor to our Milky Way galaxy is Andromeda galaxy at 2.2 MLy distance.
The distribution of mass in the Universe is very fractile -- it looks just as complex and very much the same at a very wide range of distance scales.
So, even though I do not know how wide this image would be in terms of angular measures (degrees, minutes, seconds), it is probably justified to compare it to the Capodimonte Deep Field subtle background visible light images.
Many features are the same: complex 3D fractile network, with bright boundaries around both brighter (more dense) and dimmer (more empty) regions, and both brighter and thicker and thinner and dimmer lines, marked by myriad tiny dense features. I don't believe that the MS image includes gravitational lensing, which must be a complex factor in the CDF images.
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www.pparc.ac.uk/Nw/millennium_sim.asp The Virgo consortium
www.mpa-garching.mpg.de/galform/millennium/
www.mpa-garching.mpg.de/galform/millennium/galseq_D_063.jpg
arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0504097
Simulating the joint evolution of quasars, galaxies and their large-scale distribution
pil.phys.uniroma1.it/debate3.html
On the fractile structure of the universe
Sylos Labini, Montuori & Pietronero
This is "Raptor", the new high performance computing cluster that we just finished building at the HPC2 at Mississippi State University. It has 2048 AMD Opteron 2218 compute cores and has a total of 4 terabytes of memory. It has a peak performance of over 10 trillion calculations per second (10 TFLOPS).
Welcome to everyone who got here through Marc Hamilton's Weblog.
Update: 11/15/2006: The 28th Top500 Supercomputer Sites list was released yesterday, and this system was listed as the 115th fastest computer in the world. It is also the largest 100% Sun-based system in the United States at this time. Sun has released a rather nice press release about our system as well.
This was taken with the camera mounted on a Trek-Tech Trekpod held over my head and using the timer to release the shutter.
The IBM 7503 was a typical peripheral delivered with thel IBM 7030 Data Processing System, such as the one installed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in November 1961.
Reconstructions of the path and damage caused by the asteroid that exploded over Chelyabinsk, Russia, in Feb. 15, 2013, provide information about the origin, trajectory and power of the airburst. These details, published in a pair of papers in Nature, may help to refine theoretical models about the likely frequency of such events and potential damage that could be caused.
This 3D simulation of the Chelyabinsk meteor explosion by Mark Boslough was rendered by Brad Carvey using the CTH code on Sandia National Laboratories' Red Sky supercomputer. Andrea Carvey composited the wireframe tail.
BlueGene/L—fifth on the June 2009 TOP500 list of world's fastest supercomputers with a sustained world-record speed of 478.2 teraFLOPS — is a revolutionary, low-cost machine delivering extraordinary computing power for the nation's Stockpile Stewardship Program. Located in the Terascale Simulation Facility at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, BlueGene/L is used by scientists at Livermore, Los Alamos, and Sandia National Laboratories. The 596-teraFLOPS machine handles many challenging scientific simulations, including ab initio molecular dynamics; three-dimensional (3D) dislocation dynamics; and turbulence, shock, and instability phenomena in hydrodynamics. It is also a computational science research machine for evaluating advanced computer architectures. [More information]
KITT or K.I.T.T. is the short name of two fictional characters from the adventure franchise Knight Rider. While having the same acronym, the KITTs are two different entities: one known as the Knight Industries Two Thousand, which appeared in the original TV series Knight Rider.
During filming, KITT was voiced by a script assistant, with voice actors recording KITT's dialog later. David Hasselhoff and original series voice actor William Daniels first met each other six months after the series began filming. KITT's evil twin is KARR, whose name is an acronym of Knight Automated Roving Robot. KARR was voiced first by Peter Cullen and later by Paul Frees in seasons one and three, respectively, of the NBC original TV series Knight Rider.
In the original Knight Rider series, the character of KITT (Knight Industries Two Thousand) was physically embodied as a modified 1982 Pontiac Trans Am. KITT was designed by customizer Michael Scheffe. The convertible and super-pursuit KITTs were designed and built by George Barris.
KITT is an advanced supercomputer on wheels. The "brain" of KITT is the Knight 2000 microprocessor, which is the centre of a "self-aware" cybernetic logic module. This allows KITT to think, learn, communicate and interact with humans. He is also capable of independent thought and action. He has an ego that is easy to bruise and displays a very sensitive, but kind and dryly humorous personality.
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.
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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.
#18. The Millennium Simulation, announced 2005.06.02 by the Virgo consortium, used the largest supercomputer in Europe, at the German Astrophysical Virtual Observatory, for over a month to model the history of the Universe in a cube over 2 billion light years on a side, holding 20 million galaxies.
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This image is a closeup of the results at redshift z = 0, showing a 15 MPC/h thick slice, showing the mass distribution, not the visible light.
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You can magnify this image 8X to see pixels of 1 mm size on a 17" monitor.
The distance measure Mpc/h has been used for decades to adjust to the fact that the Hubble constant = H has not been exactly determined. Mpc is megaparsecs.
A parsec is 3.26 light years. The Millennium Simulation used the value 0.73 for the Hubble constant H.
To get the distance in Mpc, we multiply their value by 100/H = 100/0.73 = 1.37 , which for the scale bar of 31.25 Mpc/h becomes 42.8 Mpc = 139.6 MLy.
This image has a width, directly measured on my monitor, of 91.1 Mpc/h =
124.8 Mpc = 406.9 MLy.
The huge, densely packed galaxy cluster, holding thousands of galaxies, for the greenish central region, has a length of about 2/13.6 = 14.7 % of the image width = 60 MLy. In contrast, the nearest large neighbor to our Milky Way galaxy is Andromeda galaxy at 2.2 MLy distance.
The distribution of mass in the Universe is very fractile -- it looks just as complex and very much the same at a very wide range of distance scales.
So, even though I do not know how wide this image would be in terms of angular measures (degrees, minutes, seconds), it is probably justified to compare it to the Capodimonte Deep Field subtle background visible light images.
Many features are the same: complex 3D fractile network, with bright boundaries around both brighter (more dense) and dimmer (more empty) regions, and both brighter and thicker and thinner and dimmer lines, marked by myriad tiny dense features. I don't believe that the MS image includes gravitational lensing, which must be a complex factor in the CDF images.
Click on All Sizes to view Large and Original.
www.pparc.ac.uk/Nw/millennium_sim.asp The Virgo consortium
www.mpa-garching.mpg.de/galform/millennium/
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arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0504097
Simulating the joint evolution of quasars, galaxies and their large-scale distribution
pil.phys.uniroma1.it/debate3.html
On the fractile structure of the universe
Sylos Labini, Montuori & Pietronero
www.space.com/scienceastronomy/first_star_011115.html popular article by Robert Roy Britt 2001.11.15 on www.space.com re Tom Abel simulation of the first start in our Universe www.tomabel.com/
www.solstation.com/x-objects/first.htm excellent general introduction to many recent simulations of the first stars -- many links
www.astro.psu.edu/users/tabel/GB/gb.html many awesome images and movies of simulations of the first structures and stars in our Universe by Tom Abel, Greg Bryan, and Mike Norman in 2001
www.astro.psu.edu/users/tabel/GB/gb.html frame by frame tour of the simulation with commentary
www.mpia-hd.mpg.de/GALAXIES/CADIS/irsee2003/PROCEEDINGS/A...
the first stars, a slideshow review by Tom Abel
Compare #21 Closeup of many tiny bright sources on background mesh in HUDF.
Rivers of cables for Dawn, one of the newest supercomputers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. It placed ninth in the June 2009 Top500 list of the world's fastest supercomputers. [More information]
In 1988, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory installed the first totally new supercomputer operating system in 20 years on the Livermore Computer Center’s (LCC) Cray X/MP/48. The new Network Livermore Timesharing System (NLTSS) replaced the old Livermore Timesharing System. Nearly five years in design and four years in implementation, NLTSS was a state-of-the-art distributed processing system, providing more efficient use both of the center’s powerful multiprocessor supercomputers and the researcher’s own enhanced workstation.
Argonne's Blue Gene/P supercomputer, tinted green in this photo to illustrate its environmentally friendly low energy consumption, is one of the world's fastest computers for open scientific research.
Edited Chandra Space Telescope visualization of the center of the Milky Way Galaxy.
Original caption: Want to take a trip to the center of the Milky Way? Check out a new immersive, ultra-high-definition visualization. This 360-movie offers an unparalleled opportunity to look around the center of the galaxy, from the vantage point of the central supermassive black hole, in any direction the user chooses.
By combining NASA Ames supercomputer simulations with data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, this visualization provides a new perspective of what is happening in and around the center of the Milky Way. It shows the effects of dozens of massive stellar giants with fierce winds blowing off their surfaces in the region a few light years away from the supermassive black hole known as Sagittarius A* (Sgr A* for short).
These winds provide a buffet of material for the supermassive black hole to potentially feed upon. As in a previous visualization, the viewer can observe dense clumps of material streaming toward Sgr A*. These clumps formed when winds from the massive stars near Sgr A* collide. Along with watching the motion of these clumps, viewers can watch as relatively low-density gas falls toward Sgr A*. In this new visualization, the blue and cyan colors represent X-ray emission from hot gas, with temperatures of tens of millions of degrees; red shows moderately dense regions of cooler gas, with temperatures of tens of thousands of degrees; and yellow shows of the cooler gas with the highest densities.
A collection of X-ray-emitting gas is seen to move slowly when it is far away from Sgr A*, and then pick up speed and whip around the viewer as it comes inwards. Sometimes clumps of gas will collide with gas ejected by other stars, resulting in a flash of X-rays when the gas is heated up, and then it quickly cools down. Farther away from the viewer, the movie also shows collisions of fast stellar winds producing X-rays. These collisions are thought to provide the dominant source of hot gas that is seen by Chandra.
When an outburst occurs from gas very near the black hole, the ejected gas collides with material flowing away from the massive stars in winds, pushing this material backwards and causing it to glow in X-rays. When the outburst dies down the winds return to normal and the X-rays fade.
The 360-degree video of the Galactic Center is ideally viewed through virtual reality (VR) goggles, such as Samsung Gear VR or Google Cardboard. The video can also be viewed on smartphones using the YouTube app. Moving the phone around reveals a different portion of the movie, mimicking the effect in the VR goggles. Finally, most browsers on a computer also allow 360-degree videos to be shown on YouTube. To look around, either click and drag the video, or click the direction pad in the corner.
Dr. Christopher Russell of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (Pontifical Catholic University) presented the new visualization at the 17th meeting of the High-Energy Astrophysics (HEAD) of the American Astronomical Society held in Monterey, Calif. NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, manages the Chandra program for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, Massachusetts, controls Chandra's science and flight operations.