Oak Ridge, TN, circa 1945

Interesting Article in the Wall Street Journal this week.

I dont know the possiblity of an intelligent machine in a near future  but it is very exciting to think of a thinking machine.It is not about the thinking but about the man’s tireless effort to mimic the nature, to cross the limits of the physical world.Here is a news tells that IBM’s super computer has simulated a cat’s cortex which is nearly equivalent to 4.5% of human brain which is not a mean achievement.

But I wonder how long it will take for India to enter into the league of such nations which make breakthrough in outsmarting nature.

The IBM’s Roadrunner went from most powerful computer to runner-up!

The title holder is “Jaguar” a Cray XT5 computer. Twice the runner-up behind Roadrunner, Jaguar came up with a performing 1.74 petaflop per second, a petaflop is quadrillion calculations per second

The name suits it well, being the fastest animal in the world, Jaguar still has room to grow with an estimated 2.3 petaflops/s

Jaguar is located at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and is dedicated to research for new energy, climate change, supernovas and space, and photosynthesis, among other research

Here are the specs:

Peak Teraflops                                          2,332

Six-Core AMD Opterons            37,376

AMD Opteron Cores               224,256

Compute Nodes                         18,688

Memory (TB)                                  299

Memory Bandwidth GB/s)              478

Disk Space (TB)                          10,000

Interconnect Bandwidth                 374

Floor Space (ft²)                           4,352

Cooling Technology                     Liquid

For more information and to learn more about Jaguar visit this site

okulun dahiyane makinesi çok zeki. hiçbir kazığı yemiyor. şimdilik. bir kere yedirdim. ama onu öğrenmiş. az kalsın gidiyorduk gümbürtüye. yine de iyiyiz. böyle firewall görmedik biz. ultrasuperextraordinary bir firewall olsa gerek. pc mühendislerimize güveniyoruz fakat onlar da fos çıktı. iş başa düştü. rapid için tabii ki bütün söylemlerimiz. haydi moti,fuki,rhx gitar arkadaslarim hadi. yapalim su isi.

Cray, Inc. walks through the upgrade process of the Kraken supercomputer from Quad-Core AMD Opteron to Six-Core AMD Opteron.

Commentary:

Cray XT5 Supercomputer (Jaguar), after updating from quad-to-six-core AMD Opteron processors, boasts a 2.3 petaflop per second performance peak (theoretical) and 1.75 petaflops (Linpack benchmark). The “Jaguar” has almost 250,000 processors. The IBM Roadrunner can ONLY manage 1.042 petaflops by comparison.

Now, if I could be granted a few minutes (seconds?) on the Jaguar to index my media collection

As amazing as today’s supercomputing systems are, they remain primitive and current designs soak up too much power, space and money. And as big as they are today, supercomputers aren’t big enough — a key topic for some of the estimated 11,000 people now gathering in Portland, Ore. for the 22nd annual supercomputing conference, SC09, will be the next performance goal: an exascale system. Today, supercomputers are well short of an exascale. The world’s fastest system at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, according to the just released Top500 list, is a Cray XT5 system, which has 224,256 processing cores from six-core Opteron chips made by Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD). The Jaguar is capable of a peak performance of 2.3 petaflops. But Jaguar’s record is just a blip, a fleeting benchmark. The US Department of Energy has already begun holding workshops on building a system that’s 1,000 times more powerful — an exascale system, said Buddy Bland, project director at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility that includes Jaguar. The exascale systems will be needed for high-resolution climate models, bio energy products and smart grid development as well as fusion energy design. The latter project is now under way in France: the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor, which the US is co-developing. They’re expected to arrive in 2018 — in line with Moore’s Law — which helps to explain the roughly 10-year development period. But the problems involved in reaching exaflop scale go well beyond Moore’s Law.

LOTRO, LOTRO, LOTRO…where do I begin to discuss the Prologue and Epic Book 1 quest in this game? Oh that’s right! NO WHERE, because I still haven’t been able to downloaded it! So far the process of being in this class with a MacBook has been the biggest pain and frustration of college to date. No one is to blame except for my lack of technological skills along with MacBook’s lack of corporation with Windows computer games. It is absolutely ridiculous.

The way it was once described to me, Windows are like the freeway, and Mac’s are like the toll way. Both are used to get you to the same location in the same amount of time, but only certain people can ride the toll way. And no I don’t mean a certain race or class level is allowed to buy a MacBook, I simply mean that MacBook’s are designed to be more selective and elite. Windows are a more general and basic computer system.

I love my MacBook, probably more than my little brother, but with my luck, of course I ended up in the writing seminar class that only works well for Windows/PC users. This competition between computer systems reminds me of McKenzie Wark and Gamer Theory 2.0. Wark believes that American society today does not work as a team. Everyone is always competing to be bigger and better than everyone else. This is how I see the rival between Windows and Mac to be.

MacBook’s appear to be lighter, thinner, and more aesthetically appealing, where as Windows are bulkier, heavier and user friendly. Though it is all based on matter of opinion as well as what you plan to actually use your computer for. Apparently, Windows works better for computer games. Who knew? I believe Mac’s to be better for using programs such as Adobe InDesign and Photoshop because the quality makes the pictures sharper and clearer. Either way, two great computer systems that have been around for such a long time and are constantly developing and changing and growing, what do you think could happen if the two morphed their powers together into a Super Computer from heaven?

Think about it? This would cause peace between the two companies as well as, peace between my MacBook and sanity. I’m pretty sure there is some type of economical problem with this utopian computer world I’m trying to make, but a girl can dream can’t she?

All I’m saying is, once you go Mac, you don’t ever want to go back! Ok, that’s not really what I’m trying to say. I just wish there was something I could do about being able to download LOTRO onto my computer without having to spend an extra $150 and go through the process of downloading a hundred different things onto my hard drive before I can get it all up and running smoothly. It’s frustrating and I needed some place to vent.

I find the world created and written by Tolkien to be ethereal, magical, imaginative, original, ingenious and inspiring. But without having downloaded or played Lord of The Rings Online yet, I’m afraid my insight about how the two compare will not be too helpful.

~Adriana

Life has turned into a busy mess, but I guess that’s the nature of doing three studio courses in one semester. It doesn’t look to be slowing down any time soon either!

I have a lot of stuff to hit in this post, so let’s get right to it, shall we:

- Inglorious Basterds was glorious. We discuss the film at length in the next episode of Cine-Rama (coming very soon) with special guest Eric Martin of The Trip, Comics Playground, and DC Noise. I think he’s on about 96 other podcasts too . . .

- I’ve been eating a lot of Chinese food lately. Like a lot, a lot. It’s ridiculous. And I still don’t get tired of it. Do I have a problem?

- A new super computer is set to appear as a guest on Jeopardy. http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2009-08/supercomputer-takes-jeopardy I just hope they remembered to program it to answer in the form of a question.

- Meet the coolest new dinosaur discovered in decades: RaptorRex! http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/science/09/17/tiny.t-rex.dinosaur.discovered/index.html Sure, he has powerful legs, razor-sharp teeth, and is nine feet tall, but the remains were discovered in China . . . and as we learned above, I would clearly be able to devour him before he got me.

- Jones Soda (delicious, and sadly hard to find most places) is going to be marketing a series of limited edition Dungeons and Dragons themed flavors. The flavors are set to be: Potion of Healing, Sneak Attack, Eldritch Blast, Dwarven Draught, Illithid Brain Juice (my favorite name), and Bigby’s Crushing Thirst Quencher. What? No magic missile?

And now back to making life more animated . . . .

Sistem Operasi Windows memberikan berbagai fasilitas dan fitur yang belum tentu optimal bagi user. Tapi, hal itu tidak menjadi kendala bagi User karena fitur-fitur tersebut dapat diaktifkan maupun di nonaktifkan.

Bahkan banyak pula yang sejak awal penginstalan user melakukan perubahan dan inti disebut twaeking.

Dengan tweaking, tuntu user dapat interface sistem operasi sesuai dengan keinginan, mengoptimalkan penggunaan resauce maupun peforma yang lebih baik.

Tapi dilain user dapat melakuakan tweaking secara manual dengan cara mengutak-atik registery ataupung otomati dengan beberapa aplikasi utilitas seperti tune Up Utilities, Glary utilities, dan masih banyak lagi.

Salah satu aplikasi yang dapat digunakan oleh user adalah Tweaking Manager. Software ini simpel dan cepat, itu kelebihan dari interfacenya.  Aplikasi ini menyajikan tweaking yang mudah dan disertai tanda option chekbox

Jika anda ingin memilikinya, atau ingin mencobanya silahkan download disini….

Here comes the world’s fastest super computer from Fujitsu in Japan.

After a huge competition among the leading companies, fujitsu emerged as the inventor of world’s fastest super computer.

This super computer is set  to perform to the performance of ten petaflops.

This super computer is made to meet the clients fastest operations and set to launch in the Institute of Physical and Chemical Research centre ,Riken in japan.
The key features of this super computers are

1. Next generation code development unit

2.Memory sharing server

3.Large area of clusters

This super computer will be operated from march 2010 and to be used in various sectors, especially in Atomic Research.

Operating systems on supercomputers used to be custom-made affairs, but this has changed. These days, Linux has become a popular choice for supercomputers. But how popular? You may be surprised.
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19 of the top 20 supercomputers in the world are running some form of Linux. That’s 95%! And if you just look at the top 10, ALL of them use Linux.

You can read the rest of the article on pingdom.

I am an avid reader of Life Extension articles on the net and invariably the subject of the “Singularity” comes up.

What is a Singularity you ask ? My definition…..Singularity: The ultimate virtual bullshit life for the ultimate agoraphobic nerd in you. But seriously folks, it is the idea that all knowledge we possess in our brains will be up loaded to a computer and will no longer need our inconvenient “biological” bodies with its terrible short comings, such as its need for sex and food for example. They, ” the Sigularitists” hope that in the end all humans will be part of the collective and all problems will be null and void. In this dream world we will live forever. Haven’t these ding dongs seen Terminator. It all sounds to good to be true and it is. There are so many problems with this idea that it hurts my brain to think about it. First, your Self or individuality, and most importantly your body will be annihilated. Your body and soul will become “redundant” and out dated. I find this repugnant. What sort of short sighted, self loathing bull shit is that? only an asshole would give up real life for a promise for a virtual after life….humm smells like a Religion.

Below I posted this comment on a ” Singularity” Blog.

“I have been a Life Extensionist for more than 30 years. I understand the ramification of the ongoing technology boom. But, on the other hand the Idea of a singularity seems the ultimate annihilation of individuality, in other words, DEATH. The individuals evolved to increases our chances of survival as a species and a individual. Also, it gives a venue for competitions ,which tests ideas and designs against each other in a harsh environment. The lack of competition and new ideas would render our species extinct. It would also doom thier beloved “Singularity” to a diservedly protracted and lonely death. The lack of opposing Ideas alone would open up the Singularity to certain death when contacted by another biologic or technical species. Another option of the singularity w ould be to create a virtual world where individuals compete against each other to see which Ideas and designs work and which ones do not. Hey, wait a minute, that sounds like real life as we know it.

I am all for technology which makes individuals more efficient but, I stop at networking our, especially my, consciousness to a central computer; this is the ultimate form of communism. Who decides which ideas work and which ones don’t? The Singularity? The singularity is only as good as the programmer who designed it. It doesn’t matter if it is self learning, how will it determine what is an idea worth knowing and doing and which are not? How would the Singularity decides on what criteria is useful? WHY WOULD IT CARE IF IT HAD ZERO COMPETITION? Unless the singularity could test ideas in double-blind manner in a harsh environment (again sounds like real life) the knowledge gained would be pure folly.

So be careful what you wish for! It just might kill us all including the coveted “Singularity.” The possible applications of a super intelligent computer would be in testing scenarios and designing machines and many, many other things to numerous to mention but, the knowledge gained, would need to be real world tested.
One last thing, I sorta , kinda like my biological body and individuality. I do not want to upload or download my consciousness or unconsciousness for some thing or government to do as IT pleases with it.

A Singularity is not immortality it is death of the individual plain and simple.”

This Utopian society called a “Singularity ” where all is known and no one dies is quite dreamy if your life sucks and ,you can’t compete, then all the pain will go away and, all the pleasure too. If your individuality is preserved than, which it can’tbe in a pure singularity, you’ll be floating around in a virtual life programed by someone who never left his computer and never lived a real (actual) non-virtual life. ..Sounds boring ..where can I sign up? Imagine a world , no reproduction, no sex, no fear, no joy. You get the picture, or do you? So all of you Utopian, virtual, hive-mind nerds out there in internet Borg land try this… Get up.. back away from the computer… put the mouse down… Now go climb a real mountain.. Even better, heaven forbid, leave your house and find an non-virtual girl to have real sex with! Maybe just maybe then you’ll change your mind. For me, I’ll take the real thing.

Sebelumnya ini pasti sudah pernah dibahas  oleh situs-situs lainnya. Tapi disini saya akan bahas lagi yah…. sebagai isi blog yang lama belum saya isi, hehe….. kasihan ya… blog ini. Tapi meskipun begitu akan saya isi dengan kemampuan saya dengan blog ini. Kembali ketopik, sebelumnya pasit anda susah tahu bukan cara mengganti title pada welcome screen?Nah, jika anda iseng dengan komputer anda atau suka mengutak-atik bagian dalam software terutama regedit. Sebaiknya anda coba trik ini karena yah dihitung-hitung untuk mengisi ilmu bagi yang belum tahu, jika yang sudah tahu maaf ya….. Dengan kreasi pada layar komputer anda dan sedikit pesan sebelum me log offnya;

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After conquering the chess world with Deep Blue, IBM is taking the next step as Watson will be competing with human contestants on the television show Jeopardy!

IBM has been working on Watson for two years. It is a super computer with massively parallel analytical capabilities designed to handle semantics, the meaning of words. The computer will use statistical methods to determine the validity of its calculations. It will not be connected to the Internet or outside databases.

Jeopardy! is the long-running quiz game show covering a wide range of topics contestants need to quickly and accurately respond to.

Deep Blue was an IBM supercomputer designed to calculate over 200 million chess moves per second. It defeated World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov in 1997.

“The essence of making decisions is recognizing patterns in vast amounts of data, sorting through choices and options, and responding quickly and accurately,” said Samuel J. Palmisano, IBM Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer.

“Watson is a compelling example of how the planet – companies, industries, cities – is becoming smarter,” Palmisano said. “With advanced computing power and deep analytics, we can infuse business and societal systems with intelligence.”

First chess, then Jeopardy! Next, Survivor. o_O

[From IBM]

The robots are coming. We’ve covered the inevitable technological singularity at HowStuffWorks.com and it seems like news of computer advancement is making the headlines with increasingly regularity. While the situation isn’t yet as dire as “Battlestar Galactica” made it out to be (or as unevenly written), it does seem like the robots are indeed getting smarter.

In fact, according to the Guardian and Reuters, scientists at New York’s Cornell University have a super computer named Adam that has already surpassed scientific legend Isaac Newton. Adam observes regularities in the natural world and devises laws based on the data. In a manner of hours, the computer managed to figure out Newton’s laws of motion.

The researchers insist that the bot’s main skill is in cracking tons of data to spot underlying natural principles and, while this wouldn’t replace human scientists, it could seriously speed up advancements across the entire spectrum of scientific research.

Sound exciting? Frightening? Well, get used to it.

Prepare To Greet Your Robot Masters at HowStuffWorks.com:
How Isaac Newton Worked
How Newton’s Laws of Motion Work
How Robots Work
What’s the technological singularity?

Back to moment telah hadir Software yang sangat powerfull dikelasnya, yaitu adalah VRCommander. Dimana keisitimewaan dari aplikas ini adalah memungkinkan anda untuk menjalankan sebuah komputer dengan perintah suara, misalnya ketika anda sedang mendengarkan winamp dan anda ingin membesarkan volume, anda tidak perlu repot untuk membesarkannya menggunakan mouse tapi dengan hanya mengatakan “volume Up”, atau jika anda ingin berpindah ke lagu yang lain upcapkan “next”. Apa lagi jika anda malas mencatat alamat tinggal ucapkan saja”Address”, itu pun harus menggunakan microphone.

Semua perintah dapat dilakukan hanya dengan suara yang kita ucapkan. Dengan catatan apa yang diucapkan harus jelas dan terhindar dari noise ruangan. Namun sayangnya aplikasi ini trial, dengan masa penggunaan selama 10 hari.

Tapi jika anda tertarik mencobanya anda dapat mendownloadnya disini,

Sekarang kemajuan teknologi pada zaman ini sangatlah pesat dimana teknologi saat ini sangatlah penting bagi manusia. Dengan kata lian robot bukan hanya untuk membantu pekerjaan rumah saja tapi membatu tentara di medan perang, yatiu ROBOT MASA DEPAN, pasti anda tahu robotkan yang seperti yang pernah difilmkan yang judulnya “TERMINATOR”, intinya menolong manusia.
Nah kembali ke topik, pada saat ini NEGERI PAMAN SAM sedang mengembangkan robot yang akan diperjenjatai. Dan robot ini akan menggantikan manusia di medan perang. Setelah saya baca-baca dari berbagai sumber dimana sang penulis sejumlah buku militer Singer mengatakan “penggunaan robot unutk peperangan dapat menyelamatkan nyawa para serdadu, Kita berada pada titik revolusi dalam peperangan, seperti adanya penemuan bom atom”dikutip dari news.com.au. “Artinya mereka akan berperang bersama tentara Amerika Serikat, yang perangkat kerasnya dibuat di China dan peranti lunaknya dibuat di India,” imbuh dia.

Dan menurut Singer pada tahu 2015 angkatan senjata amerika serikat separuh anggota pertahanan mereka adalah robot. Saat ini, angkatan bersenjata Negeri Paman Sam telah merekrut tentara baru menggunakan videogame. Malahan, beberapa sistem pengaturan persenjataan telah meniru desain pengaturan untuk konsol video game. Selain itu, robot juga telah digunakan untuk menangani bom di medan pertempuran. Selain tidak memiliki belas kasih, robot dapat menghadapi suasana mencekam yang dihindari manusia.

“Amerika Serikat kini masih yang terdepan dalam robot militer, namun hal itu tidak permanen. Ada Rusia, China, Pakistan, dan Iran yang tengah mengembangkan robot militer,” tambahnya. Ini sebagai contoh negara yang mau berusaha untuk ;ebih maju lagi untuk kedepan lebih baik. Tapi apa yang dapat diperbuat oleh negeri kita? Isinya cuma KKN, seharusnya teknologi NKRI ini haruslah berlembang lebih baik?

Another of our time filling awesome segments on WCR was the World Beat.  Using the power of the Wet College Radio Super Computer (AKA my crappy Dell that was hooked into the internet via RoadRunner), I was able to surf to different countries of the world, and find out what the top songs for each were that week.  It gave us a chance to hear what other music trends may one day reach our shores (I distinctly remember playing Kylie Minogue’s “Can’t Get You Outta My Head” about 4 months before it charted in the US – how’s that for progressive?).

This week, we took a look at what was hot in the Netherlands (Liberty X’s “Just A Little”), France (Marlene & Phil Barney’s “Un Enfant De Toi”), Denmark (Nelly’s “It’s Getting Hot in Herre”),  Norway’ (Shakira’s “Underneath Your Clothes”), and Latvia (Bryan Adam’s “Here I Am”).  Now that’s a world beat!

Samsung enlisted the help of a couple computer gurus to build an incredibly fast computer (by today’s standards).  this thing processes 2GB per second!! i recommend fast forwarding to 1:35.