Tag Archives: Computer Power

Tick, tock, tick, tock…

Posted on 9 February, 2009 by Shane

I recently read about IBM’s Sequoia supercomputer that will be operational in 2011.  It will perform 20 Peta FLOPS and have 1.6 Peta bytes of RAM.  To put that in perspective: if it were to attempt to simulation a human … Continue reading →

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Learning to predict the future

Posted on 7 February, 2009 by Shane

One of the things I’ve been thinking about recently is the prediction of the future.  Many people really enjoy doing this and come up with all sorts of wild speculations.  It’s kind of like having the liberty to write your … Continue reading →

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