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Doubling Knowledge and the IT Professional
The SingularityRay Kurzweil, author of “The Singularity” forecasts geometric growth in knowledge and technology to ...
Supercomputers
Ray Kurzweil has said that the computer in your cell phone is about 10,000 more powerful than the ENIAC -the first government computer that filled a room.

XGRID in Virginia Tech
Quote: With a price of $5.2 million, practically anyone can build a system of a scale that is necessary for high-end computing research. The same G5 that runs on a desktop, is used in tandon with 1100 other G5s to interconnect to a supercomputer.





At the time of the above video, it quotes the fastest supercomputers in the world as:

  1. Earth Simulator in Japan
  2. Los Alamos Lab
  3. Virginia Tech
  4. NCSA
  5. Pacific NW Lab


The current list can be found here:
The TOP 500 Wikipedia Summary
and here The TOP 500




IBM Hydro-Cluster Supercomputer

One big water heater!





Now that you've built your supercomputer, what to do with it?

Wikipedia - SuperComputer - Common Uses


Computer Muesum Tour of Seymour Cray's First Computers












RoadRunner in Los Alamos New Mexico

Runs Linux, 16000 Opteron cores, and 16000 Cell Chips.











NSA's SuperComputer

8000 tons of water! Can do in 2 seconds what your home computer would take 22,000 years to do. Used for cryptology at NSA.







IBM's Blue Gene P - Argon Lab

Open Science...




Need a SuperComputer for the Home or Office




Deskside "SuperComputer"?

Yes it runs Windows! HPC 2008 version. Or RedHat.







NVidia Tesla

At SC08 NVIDIA announces the Tesla™ Personal Supercomputer. Experience cluster level computing performance—up to 250 times faster than standard PCs and workstations—right at your desk







CNET News - Counts down the Top 5 SuperComputers












BBC: The Great Global Warming Swindle
The Future is NowBBC shows the alternative view of Global Warming, that it's all a political ideology. This video is 1 hr 16 minutes. Hopefully you will respect the source, the BBC (British Broadcasting Company). Click the "read more" link below to watch the video.
Juan Enriquez: Decoding the future with genomics
The Future is NowThis is one of the most profound videos I have seen on TED. If you haven't discovered Ted.com yet, get over there and starting watching their videos!
Click "read more" below to view the video.
The Game of Life and How to Play It - by Florence Scovel Shinn
Book ReviewsThis book was recommended by a wealthy mentor in WisdomBringsWealth.com.

It deals primaryily with "speaking the word", positive affirmations and attitudes.


PowerSki - Engine on Surfboard?
Fun TechnologyWhat if they could put an engine on a surf-board or skis?
Over 100 patents!
Kite Wing - If Man Had Wings...
Fun TechnologyCheckout "Kite Wing" used in many sports.
Ray Kurzweil - The Singularity Summit at Stanford
The SingularityThese are 3 x 20 minute videos from Ray Kurzweil, author of "The Singularity".
If you don't know Ray Kurzweil, click on his name to view in Wikipedia.

If you have a very short attention span, then skip these videos, they are 20 minutes each.












The Singularity Institute
The SingularityVideo from the folks at "The Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence"

Keyword: recursively self-improving systems

Speakers on the video include:

1) Eliezer Yudkowsky - SIAI Research Fellow
http://yudkowsky.net/

http://sss.stanford.edu/speakers/emerson/


3) Barney Pell - Founder and CEO of Powerset
http://www.barneypell.com

4) Aubrey De Grey PhD - SAIA Advisor, Chariman and CSO (Chief Science Officer) of The Methuselah Foundation
Wikipedia BIO
href="http://www.methuselahfoundation.org">The Methuselah Foundation - Repair and Reverse the Damage of Aging

5) Peter Thiel - SAIA Advisor, Founder of Clarium Capital
Wikipedia Bio

6) Christine Peterson - SAIA Advisor, Founder Foresite Nanotech Institute

http://www.foresight.org/about/Peterson.html




"What If"
The Future is NowDon't mock the future like these teacher and administrators of past centuries and decades.

Examples (there are more, so watch the video!)

1) Year 1703 - Students cannot depend on slates (over bark) to do their work.
2) Year 1815 - Students depend on paper too much (they will forget how to write on slate)
3) Year 1907- Students depend too much on ink (they will forget how to sharpent pencils with knives)
4) Year 1928 - Students depend on store-bought ink too much (they won't be able to make their own)
5) Year 1941 - Student depend too much on fountain pens...
6) Year 1950 - Ballpoint pens will be the ruin of education in this country.
7) Year 1980 - You can't use those calculators on the test.
8) Year 1995 - Why would you ever want the Internet for student use? It's just a fad.
9) Year 1995 - You don't need a web page, who's ever going to look at it.
10) Year 1996 - Teachers will never use email.
11) 1999 - Why do you want network connectivity at every teachers desk?
12) Year 1999 - What can you do with an LCD projector that you can't do with an overhead projector?
13) Year 2000 - Why are we talking about students having laptops in highschool...
14) Year 2001 - Why would I want to put my grades on the web? Who's going to look at them?
15) Year 2005 - I don't think we will ever have wireless in our school.
16) Year 2006 - Turn off and put away all Cell phone, IPODS , and electronic devices during class.

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Media Shift
The Future is NowProfound quotes from the attached video.

1. There are more honor students in India, then student in the USA.
2. The top 10 jobs that will be in demand in 2010 didn't exist in 2004.
3. The US is 20th in the world in broadband Internet penetration
4. While Nintentdo spent $140 on R&D in 2002, the US Federal Governnment spent less than half that much on research and education.
5. One out of eight couples married in the US last year, met online.
6. We are living in exponential times.
7. There are 2.7 Billion searches performed on Google each month.
8. More than 3000 new books are published EACH DAY.
9. It is estimated that 1.5 exabytes of unique information will be generated this year (more than the previous 5000 years).
10. The one hundred dollar laptop project is expecting to ship between 50 to 100 million laptops a year to children in underdeveloped countries.
11. By 2023 it will only take $1000 computer to exceed the capabilities of the human brain.






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