What Makes the F-35 a Flying Super Computer
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Its been 25 years since Seinfeldfirst debuted on NBCs Must See TV lineup, but Jerry, George, Elaine and Kramerare finding new life in the world of Sims 4.
In case youve never played the Sims before, its an addictive computer game where you can create avatars of yourself and friends and build a digital world for your alter ego to live in. Recent versions of the game have given users control over the interior design of buildings, as well as the ability to make the characters look like anyone (or anything they want).
One Sims player named Ian Roach has taken his love of Sims and his love of television to a whole new level by recreating the characters and settings of his favorite television sitcoms in Sims 4. So far, Roach has createdSims versions of Seinfeld, Friends, Arrested Development, andGolden Girls. Roachbeen kind enough to upload screenshots of his work to a photo album and he appears to be working on Sims versions of Sex and the City, The Office, and Frasier.
What do you think of Roachs work? Do his Sims characters look like the real thing? And which shows would you like to see recreated in the Sims universe? Sound off in the comments!
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A pioneer in our industry that created one of the first portable personal computers passed away this week.
This past week's headlines were filled with the hacking of celebrity iCloud accounts, an upcoming IPO of Alibaba, a security breach at Home Depot, and protests on Net neutrality, however other than a couple local San Diego newspaper obituaries in the Union-Tribune and Times of San Diego, the passing of Kaypro founder, Andrew Kay, for the most part went unnoticed in our industry.
For those wondering what the heck a Kaypro computer is, Andrew Kay's "Kaypro Computer" was one of the first "portable personal computers" on the market back in the early 1980s. It was the predecessor to tablets and laptops we have today, it even preceded the sewing machine sized Compaq Portable computer that many attribute to the earliest portables personal computer.
Although the Kaypro II computer of 1982 was preceded still by the Spring/1981 release of the Osborne portable computer, the Kaypro II had a 9" screen compared to the super tiny 5" screen of the Osborne, and by the time the Kaypro II came out, the CP/M operating system was better supported with business application software like Wordstar and PerfectCalc that provided Kaypro a leading edge competitive advantage in the early personal computer marketplace.
It wasn't until early 1983 that Compaq released their first Compaq Portable computer, and priced at $2995 compared to the Kaypro at $1,595, while Compaq ran MS-DOS that all of the new IBM Personal Computers were running, back in 1983, users of IBM Personal Computers were also running WordStar and Visicalc, so a $2,995 Compaq computer running WordStar vs a $1,595 Kaypro computer running WordStar still gave Kaypro a significant advantage in early personal computing.
However by late 1983, MS-DOS based computers, with the vast corporate adoption of software programs like Word Perfect and Lotus 1-2-3 quickly made MS-DOS based computers the defacto standard for personal computing, and thus CP/M-based systems like the Osborne computer and the Kaypro computer days were numbered in the marketplace. Osborne Computer filed for bankruptcy before 1983 was up, Kaypro held out longer and even released a series of MS-DOS based systems in the mid-1980s including systems based on more advanced 80286 and 80386 processors. Kaypro filed for bankruptcy in 1990 and while it had a round of restructuring and re-emerging through the 1990s, it never made a mark as it had done in the early 80's.
I had an opportunity to meet Andy Kay a couple times during the early days of the 1980s back when early pioneers like Bill Gates (Microsoft), Ray Noorda (Novell), Rod Canion (Compaq) roamed the halls of the Convention Center during the annual Comdex Computer show in Las Vegas.
Andy had a vision that "computing" was personal and portable over THREE DECADES before the release of the first iPad tablets. At a time when just a few years before the release of the Kaypro II, a "computer" filled an entire room and was managed by dozens of specialists, Andy put a computer together that anyone with a couple thousand dollars could buy and carry with them between home and work. We attribute visionary status to the likes of Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, and Mark Zuckerberg, but the week passes with a scant mention of Andrew Kay's contribution to our industry. So with this blog post, I thank and I recognize all that Mr Kay did for our industry and the amazing vision he had in an era of Cathode Ray Tube (CRT) monitor screens, 64-kilobytes of memory, and floppy diskette technology!
Although beyond a tribute here to Mr Kay for all he did for our industry, also a reminder of how quickly even back then that the "latest in technology" quickly gets replaced by something new and better, and unless you evolve what you do, you can quickly be made obsolete and go bankrupt or be out of a job.
We think that "the cloud" has created a special velocity in innovation that is changing our industry more rapidly than ever before, but when you think of what's new and truly unique and innovative in Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, DropBox, or the like in the past 5-yrs, while as a category "cloud computing" is a major shift from "on-premise computing" of the past, the cloud solutions themselves are for the most part similar to what was offered by these organizations a half a decade ago.
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A powerful computer is an easy thing for manufacturers to build. Throw in a hardcore processor and some high-end components and the sky is the limit. Unfortunately, raw power is not the sole focus of consumers. No, many mobile computer users also want super-long battery life and silence to go with the performance. This, you see, is where things get tricky.
The Surface Pro 3 gets rather close to this, but the whirring of the fan in the hybrid is audible sometimes. Plus, the Surface components are a bit expensive for many consumers. Today, Intel delivers a fanless solution that should meet the needs of many -- the Core M Processor line, otherwise known as Broadwell-Y.
"Delivering the optimal blend of mobility and performance, Intel's new processor was purpose-built for amazing performance in the thinnest, fanless ultra-mobile devices. The Intel Core M processor can power razor-thin devices with Intel Core processor-level performance and deliver up to double the battery life when compared to a 4-year-old system", says Intel.
The company further explains, "the Intel Core M processor package is 50 percent smaller and, at 4.5 watts, has 60 percent lower thermal power than the previous generation. This lets OEMs design sleek, fanless systems less than 9 mm thin -- thinner than an AAA battery and today's sleekest laptops. There are already more than 20 Intel Core M processor-based OEM products in the development pipeline. The first systems based on the Intel Core M processor will be on shelves for the holiday selling season".
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So, as you can see, major computer manufacturers are on-board with the Core M chips. This should have a positive impact on the PC business, especially with the new machines landing before and during the Christmas shopping season. Consumers should be in for a real treat when they visit their local Best Buy or Staples and see the amazingly thin and sexy laptops on the shelves. Clearly, this will be a winner.
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How Do You Program Your Super-Computer?
"Your mind is a super-computer and your self-talk is the program it will run..." What programming are you doing?
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John Martinis is one of the worlds foremost experts on quantum computing, a growing field of science that aims to process information at super high speeds using strange physics of very tiny particles such as electrons and photons. And now, after years as a physics professor at the University of California Santa Barbara, hes headed for Google.
This week, the Google Quantum A.I. Lab announced that it hired Martinis and his Santa Barbara team to build a new breed of quantum computing hardware. Though Martinis will maintain his affiliation with UC Santa Barbara and continue to mentor his PhD students there, he will spend most of his time on his research at Google. The move proves that Google is serious about quantum computing, and given the companys vast influence and deep pockets, it could provide a serious shot in the arm for quantum computer research as a whole.
Google launched its Quantum A.I. Lab last year to test a machine called the D-Wave Two, an intriguing but controversial system that its makers bill as a quantum computer, and it believes quantum computing could play a key role in so many of its future ambitions, from self-driving cars and other robots to better predictive analytics systems for products like Google Now to things we havent even dreamed up yet. Thanks to whats called the superposition principle of quantum mechanics, it could process data for such projects at speeds that are exponentially faster than what you get from todays machines.
But the scientific community has greeted the D-Wave machine with skepticism, questioning whether the machine is actually a quantum computer at all, and whether it can actually provide something you cant get from conventional machines. In joining Google, Martinis lends new weight to the companys quantum ambitions.
Martinis is among those questioning D-Waves claims. Last June, Science published a paper co-authored by Martinis and several other scientists concluding that D-Waves machines arent actually faster than normal laptops and desktops. But hes no D-Wave hater. Martinis has been working with D-Waves machines for a few years now and says he has long been impressed with the work the company has done.
The general consensus now, he says, is that the D-Wave computers do exhibit some quantum behavior. The real question, he explains, is whether this behavior actually speeds up the D-Wave computers. And although his team will be working separately from D-Wave at Google, he thinks their work may eventually help D-Wave take better of advantage of that quantum behavior. Were taking some of the basic ideas of D-Wave and combining that with what the [Google] Quantum AI team has learned operating the machine, he says.
Martinis and his team have been focused on stability of quantum computers, one of the biggest issues in this field of research. Quantum computers rely on particles that are in whats called a quantum state, meaning that they can be two different states at once, or even some combination of the two. The problem is that these particles, called qubits, typically stay in a quantum state for only a fraction of a second, and interference from other particles can easily be knocked out of this state.
Researchers call this loss of quantum information decoherence, and its made it hard to make any reliable calculations with a quantum computer. But Martinis and company are making some progress in this area. Last April, Nature published a paper detailing their work creating a five qubit computer that can maintain quantum information using superconductive materials and an error correction system that creates back-up qubits for each piece of information store. Now, theyve managed to scale it up into a nine qubit machine, and hope to double the number of qubits each year.
Meanwhile, D-Wave has been mostly focused on trying to build machines with as many qubits as possible, but it hasnt focused much on the problem of decoherence, Martinis says. By combining D-Waves work on achieving scale with their own work on stability, Martinis and his team think they can push the whole field of quantum computing further.
Martinis says that joining Google has a few distinct advantages. One is that the Google Quantum A.I. Lab Team team has developed some real-world applications for quantum computing, so Martinis and company will have some real problemssuch as complex route planningto sink their teeth into. Another is that it will enable him to build a full-time, permanent team, as opposed to a staff of grad students and post-doctoral students who come and go every couple years.
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With a new device set to make unbreakable, quantum-based cryptographic security available for everyone for the very first time, ordinary people will be able to use cryptographic systems that until recently only existed as experiments in the most advanced physics laboratories.
Using technology developed at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) and incorporating the quantum mechanics of random photon polarization, the new device generates random numbers and creates cryptographic keys so fast and so securely that the technology is said to revolutionize high-speed cryptography and offer a completely new commercial platform for real-time encryption at high data rates.
This claimed breakthrough is made possible by taking advantage of the various spin states of photons. In line with quantum wave theory, a photon exists in all spin states at once. However, if a photon is passed through a polarizing filter that rejects given spin states, the photon can be made to exhibit just one of four possible states of spin vertical, horizontal, left, or right.
In this way, random filters may be applied to photons, which in turn, represent ones or zeroes of binary data, dependent on the state of spin selected and the binary notation attributed to it.
However, in accordance with Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle, once the photon is polarized we can not then accurately measure it again, unless we apply a filter to it at the end of its journey just like the one it went through at the start to measure its spin state. This means that provided you know the filter sequence required to decode the incoming photon stream only the receiver can then read off the encoded data.
More importantly, anyone attempting to intercept the resulting data stream cannot eavesdrop on the transmission because any attempted observation of a quantum system also alters it, and the quantum state changes resulting from attempted unauthorized reading would be immediately detected.
LANL has partnered with Whitewood Encryption Systems to market this device which, when released, may well effectively render any other conventional random number generation system system obsolete. Current systems based on mathematical formulas that can be broken by a computer with sufficient speed and power will not be able to compete with a system that is built on a truly random system that cannot be second-guessed.
"Quantum systems represent the best hope for truly secure data encryption because they store or transmit information in ways that are unbreakable by conventional cryptographic methods," said Duncan McBranch, Chief Technology Officer at LANL. "This licensing agreement with Whitewood Encryption Systems, Inc. is historic in that it takes our groundbreaking technical work that was developed over two decades into commercial encryption applications."
Purported to be simple and small enough to be made into a USB key drive or similarly-sized unit, the LANL device is also claimed to be exceptionally inexpensive to manufacture, meaning that quantum-based random photon polarization encryption could be made available to anyone. Personal data transmission security would then become cheap, pervasive, and ubiquitous.
But more than this, if this device is successfully brought to market and implemented on a worldwide scale, quantum key distribution technology could one day guarantee truly secure commerce, banking, communications, and data transfer on an unprecedented scale.
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Seattle opens defense of its Super Bowl title with tough match against Green Bay. The computer picks the Seahawks by twice the margin of the current point spread.
Over the last 20 years the Super Bowl winner from the season before is 18-2 SU in its season opener.
The Seattle Seahawks are favored to add another win to that record as a 5.5-point favorite at home against the Green Bay Packers on Thursday night.
Green Bay could be one of the NFC's best teams this season if Aaron Rodgers stays healthy, and it is difficult to pass up on 5.5 points. But Seattle is the league's best team and owns the best home field in the NFL, making them the pick at -5.5 in their home opener.
Odds Shark Computer Prediction: 33-21 Seattle
Seattle's defense was impenetrable in 2013, leading the NFL with the lowest total yards surrendered with 273.6 per game and scoring defense allowing only 14.4 points per game.
The Seahawks are tough to play against regardless of the venue, but they take their game to another level at home, where they are 17-1 SU and 13-5 ATS over their last 18 games. Seattle is 4-0 SU and ATS over its last four Week 1 home openers.
Green Bay is just 1-5 SU and ATS over its last six games as a road underdog. Since 2012, the Packers are 2-5 SU and 2-4-1 ATS against NFC West opponents.
Perhaps the biggest concern coming into this game for the Packers is Seattle's running game; Green Bay finished 25th in the league last season in rushing defense, and could have its share of trouble trying to contain Russell Wilson and Marshawn Lynch.
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A pilot project is to link a high performance computing (HPC) network hub in Inverness and Easter Ross with computer clusters in other parts of the UK, as well as in Europe, China, Japan and the US.
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The IT giant Fujitsu, which has bases in the Highland capital and Alness, is to launch the four-month trial of the super-fast computer service with The Highland Council and Energy North, the trade group of over 200 members in the oil and gas, renewable energy and nuclear industries.
HPC can handle and analyse huge amounts of data at high speed, giving businesses and research institutions unprecedented problem- solving power that will accelerate and improve their work. Among its countless uses, HPC can advance medical research and treatments, develop climate change technology, create complex simulations and animated graphics and carry out rapid mathematical calculations.
Fujitsu, which will fund the pilot, says it has been inspired by proposals for a Highland Science Skills Academy which is aimed at growing science, IT and technology careers.
With HPC in the Highland region, Fujitsu and other companies would be able to consider establishing research and development operations in the area, which would be a catalyst for bringing new, highly-qualified posts to theremote region.
The system will use a portal to connect initially to a HPC cluster in Wales and, ultimately, to a pilot scheme in Northern Ireland, and Fujitsu operations at Hayes in Middlesex, as well as facilities in Europe, Japan and the US. Drew Hendry, Leader of The Highland Council, said HPC would open up a "new world of potential" for Highlands businesses.
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VMware Optimized Compute, Storage and Networking Solutions Enable Rapid Deployment of Next Generation Software-Defined Data Centers
SAN FRANCISCO - Super Micro Computer, Inc. (NASDAQ: SMCI), a global leader in high-performance, high-efficiency server, storage technology and green computing will highlight its new Ultra Series high memory capacity 24x DIMM, NVMe enabled servers, 2U TwinPro(2), 4U FatTwin SuperServer, and storage optimized 6x HDD/SSD SuperBlade solutions this week at VMworld 2014 in San Francisco, CA. These advanced server and storage solutions with VMware technologies are optimized for a wide range of virtualization applications. Headlining the event will be Supermicro's 2U TwinPro(2), a VMware certified EVO: RAIL hyper-converged infrastructure appliance designed to accelerate deployment and optimize performance of virtualized environments. This scale-out solution features an optimal balance of compute, memory, storage and networking with redundant hot-swap Titanium Level, High Efficiency (96%+) Digital Power Supplies in a high-density 4-node, dual processor server appliance, simplifying virtualization across Enterprise, private/hybrid-Cloud, End-user computing and branch office environments.
"Supermicro Green Computing solutions deliver the performance, efficiency and reliability needed in highly dynamic, virtualized environments," said Charles Liang, President and CEO of Supermicro. "From higher memory capacity and flexible expansion in our Ultra Series to maximized compute and storage density in our TwinPro, FatTwin SuperServer and SuperBlade product lines, Supermicro offers the most versatile platforms for building sophisticated hyper-converged solutions. With our new EVO: RAIL appliance, customers have the advantage of Supermicro's architecture and service advantages combined with VMware's virtualization expertise to significantly accelerate deployment of virtual machines and increase their overall productivity and performance per watt, per dollar, per square foot."
"VMware EVO: RAIL is poised to significantly transform the Software-Defined Datacenter with simplified procurement, deployment, management and support in an all-in-one hyper-converged infrastructure appliance," said Mornay Van Der Walt, vice president, Emerging Solutions Group, VMware. "Supermicro's 2U TwinPro architecture is an excellent example of the high levels of technology integration offered in our new EVO: RAIL building blocks. Working closely with our EVO: RAIL partners, VMware is removing the complexities of system ownership and accelerating business growth with time to value to first virtual machine in minutes, all covered by world-class support services."
-- Supermicro EVO: RAIL Appliance (SYS-2027TR-VRL001/002) (www.supermicro.com/EVO_RAIL) -- 2U TwinPro, 4 nodes, redundant hot-swap Titanium Level, High Efficiency (96%+) Digital Power Supplies -- 14.4TB raw capacity with 10K RPM drives and built in caching with SSD -- RJ45 (VRL001 model) or SFP+ (VRL002 model) networking connectivity -- Software Bundle includes vSphere, Virtual SAN and vCenter components -- Supports up to 100 general purpose server virtual machines or 250 virtual desktop machines per appliance -- 2U TwinPro architecture supports next generation processor and advanced I/O technologies to maximize performance and number of virtual machines in the 2U, 4 node footprint
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-- Supermicro Virtual SAN Ready Nodes (SYS-F627R3-VDN001L/VDN002L) (www.supermicro.com/VSAN) - Ready to deploy VDI nodes in 4U 4-node FatTwin supporting up to 400 VMs, 8x 3.5" hot-swap HDD bays per U and redundant, hot-swap Titanium Level, High Efficiency (96%+) Digital Power Supplies -- Supermicro 1U/2U Ultra Series Servers - supports next generation processors and flexible, integrated I/O options with max memory capacity up to 1.5TB in 24x DIMMs, up to 8x add-on-cards in 2U and redundant, hot-swap Titanium Level, High Efficiency (96%+) Digital Power Supplies -- Supermicro 7U SuperBlade - StorageBlade (SBI-7127R-S6) supporting 6x hot-swap HDD/SSD and 10GbE Blade Switch -- Supermicro 1U SuperServer for EVP - Enterprise-class, scalable SDDC compute platform
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Fans of a free-roaming, super-powered gaming franchise get another shot at fame or infamy in the third-person adventure Infamous: First Light (Sucker Punch Productions and Sony Computer Entertainment, for PlayStation 4, Rated Teen, $14.99).
Starring Abigail Fetch Walker, this multi-gigabyte download offers her origin story as a stand-alone game exclusively for Sonys latest entertainment console. Abigail was last seen in the full-length Infamous: Second Son, released earlier this year, assisting her best bioterrorist buddy Delsin Rowe.
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Encompassing Abigails hard life on the streets of Seattle as a Conduit (think one of the X-Mens mutants) and set two years prior to her first meeting with Delsin, we learn about her tragic relationship with brother Brent and subsequent attempted transformation into an assassin for the Department of Unified Protections.
Once again, Abigail harnesses the powers of neon gas to run at super speeds, glide, leap to rooftops, run up walls and shoot laser beams and concussive blasts at enemies. Of course, being a mutant, our misunderstood heroine can also take and dish out much more damage than the average human.
I was continually dazzled every time Fetch dissipated into a stream of florescent pink particles to zip around the city, leaving colorful gaseous trails in her wake and then quickly reforming as her gothy self.
She can also use pockets of neon gas scattered around Seattle to add extra acceleration to her frenetic shenanigans making it a dizzying thrill ride for the player during many of the missions.
Although not as multipowered of a Conduit as Delsin, Abigail is still potent as she drains neon lights and other sources for power to beat on bad guys. She can suspend enemies in the air to methodically eliminate them and occasionally unleash a massive singularity on opponents and large objects where they get sucked into a glowing vortex and smacked into the ground.
Between escaping police and agents, riding shotgun on top of a trucks as an enforcer, stopping drive-by shootings, attacking DUP drones, sniping Russian mobsters and hunting down drug thugs, expect about four hours of action. Futhermore, the mission-based story, set within the confines of a beautifully recreated Seattle (complete with plenty of rainy landscapes), keeps the player busy with plenty of optional side projects.
These include capturing lumens (glowing energy masses collected and allocated to skill trees to increase powers) in high-speed races (like chasing a Golden Snitch), saving hostages, creating gorgeous graffiti or taking part in training exercises at the Curdun Cay Station detention facility.
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