What happened? The answer isn’t straightforward, but Planet Money's hostslay outsome potential contributing factors. In the early and mid-1980s, personal computers entered the home. But these Commodore 64s, Radio Shack TRS-80s and others were marketed to boys. AsNPR reports, you couldn’t ...
By definition, a supercomputer is exceptional in terms of performance. At any time, there are a few well-publicized supercomputers that operate at extremely high speeds relative to all other computers. The termsupercomputeris sometimes applied to far slower -- but still impressively fast -- compute...
The size of a supercomputer can differ widely, depending on how many computers make up the supercomputer. A supercomputer could be made up of 10, 100, 1000, or more computers, all working together. As of 2022, the largest supercomputer is the Frontier in the United States. It consists of...
Truth is, I have so many ideas to share with you that I sometimes get paralyzed not knowing what to share. I totally feel guilty when I take a hiatus from the blog. I would climb a moderately sized mountain for you. You are my person. You are the yin to my yang. The ping to my...
Pretty much the same thing happened with spaceships: four were found in 1970, but no more were found until 1989. As we’ll discuss later, it was in a sense a quintessential story of computational irreducibility: there was no way to ...
IBM has a DTrace copy: ProbeVue. I wonder how good it is? And then IBM wants to have the ZFS copy: BTRFS. Regarding “Linux is on Top500”. Yes, we find Linux on Top500 but Top500 super computers are basically a bunch of PC on a fast network. They are very specialized and do...
What happened? The answer isn’t straightforward, but Planet Money's hostslay outsome potential contributing factors. In the early and mid-1980s, personal computers entered the home. But these Commodore 64s, Radio Shack TRS-80s and others were marketed to boys. AsNPR reports, you couldn’t...