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Hard Knocks got a new supercomputer for gaming, Big Rhonda. Her real name is BFC (Big F*cking Computer) but we call her Big Rhonda. This thing is an INSANE gaming computer, the specs are ridiculous. I can't wait to try Bioshock on it!
Day 29: A No Trespassing sign at the NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California (Moffett Field).
NASA’s Ames Research Center is a world-class research facility located in the heart of Silicon Valley. The center is involved with many high-tech projects, ranging from developing small spacecraft to managing some of the world’s largest supercomputers, and conducting astrobiology research.
25/06/2025. Edinburgh, United Kingdom. Chancellor Rachel Reeves visits the Advanced Computer Facility at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, to view the Archer 2 supercomputer. Treasury. Picture by Kirsty O'Connor / Treasury
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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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
En la parte superior, placas de los Cray X-MP y Y-MP. En la inferior, del Convex C1.
Museo de equipos antiguos del CESCA.
Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya
Centro de Servicios Científicos y Académicos de Cataluña.
Final days, final stuff left at the old office. Doors for the Cray supercomputer, and the skill crane game that had a bit of fame.
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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
Date: November, 2024
Director: Hinako Fukushi
Lighting Designer: Makoto Shizugami
Photographer: Shogo Nagayama
Credit: NAOJ
撮影日：2024年11月
ディレクター：福士比奈子
ライティング：清水上誠
撮影者：長山省吾
クレジット：国立天文台
JUNO is the new supercomputer installed in the new CMCC headquarters in Lecce during 2022.
Juno will have a computing power (theoretical peak performance) of about 1.134 TFlops and will be based on the new Intel processors generation (3rd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable codenamed “Ice Lake”) and also on the latest generation of NVIDIA GPU (NVIDIA Ampere architecture).
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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
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
Lamptron FC3 Limited Edition fan controller. i only need 3 fans controlled but this seemed to suit the case well.
There's just something that captivates us about red buttons. It's like you just have to press it. Anyway, went around the SDSC lab and this was a pretty interesting piece they had in there. It's hooked up to a lowly dell box in the server room, but it manages to shutdown a quarter of the rooms computers!
We visited a genetic research institute, TGEN, to check out supercomputers that are currently being used to help fight cancer. This was also featured on a Katie Couric news segment recently.