How To Make A Cluster Computer (Part 1)
Learn how to make a cluster computer using Raspberry Pi #39;s! You can also use this method to build your own super computer. Parts you will need: 2 or more Raspberry Pi #39;s - http://goo.gl/8doKXp...
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Super computer defeats all, and does not care about confusion.
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Over the past 100 years, high-end IBM machines have consistently ranked among the most powerful on the planet. When IBM Blue Gene was unveiled in 2004, it was both the most powerful supercomputer and the most efficient, consuming only a fraction of the energy and floor space of any other supercomputer.
The introduction of Blue Gene ushered in a new era of high-performance computing, continuing a long IBM tradition. Developed and manufactured in collaboration with the US Department of Energy's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, Blue Gene was originally built to help biologists observe the invisible processes of protein folding and gene development. Hence the name.
From an engineering standpoint, the guiding principle was simple but innovative: do more with less. When a small team of IBM engineers and scientists began developing the prototype for the Blue Gene /L in 1999, they were looking to make a radical departure from how supercomputers were being designed at the time. For decades, supercomputers had defined the state-of-the-art in high-performance computing and communications; but if their architecture stayed the same, the machines would soon require football field-sized buildings to house them. Worse, they would use enough electricity in one year to power a mid-size town, and they would require yet more power to prevent them from overheating.
Enter Blue Gene and a US$100 million, five-year development effort by IBM. Designed to harness thousands of low-power, cooler-running processors, the first IBM Blue Gene/L was built at the IBM lab in Rochester, Minnesota. On September 29, 2004, the new machine surpassed NEC's Earth Simulator as the fastest computer in the world.
Whereas IBMs previous champ, IBM Deep Blue , had 32 processors and could calculate about 200 million potential chess moves per second in its historic six-game victory over a chess grand master in 1997, Blue Gene/L used 131,000 processors to routinely handle 280 trillion operations every second. A single scientist with a calculator would have to work nonstop for 177,000 years to perform the operations that Blue Gene could do in one second. The Blue Gene/L was also noteworthy for its choice of operating system, Linux , and its support for the development of open source applications.
Perhaps more important than its speed was the way Blue Gene/L revolutionized the economics of supercomputing, due to its small size and power efficiency. Each Blue Gene rack contained 1024 dual-processor nodes in a footprint that dramatically reduced floor space. The processors were engineered to be so tiny that 32 of them fit on a single microchip.
Blue Gene/L was a landmark in supercomputing, but its real work had only begun. IBM researchers then began to explore the wide range of applications that would run on the system. The computers speed and expandability enabled universities, governments and commercial research labs to address a wide range of problems that had simply been too complex to tackle. And leaders could also make more informed decisionsnot just in life sciences, but also in astronomy, climate, drug development, cosmology and many other fields.
In September 2009, United States President Barack Obama recognized IBM and the Blue Gene family of supercomputers with the National Medal of Technology and Innovation, the country's most prestigious award given to leading innovators for technological achievement. And the influence of the Blue Gene/L energy-efficient design and computing model can be seen today across the information technology industry.
Blue Gene systems have helped map the human genome, investigated medical therapies, simulated radioactive decay, replicated brain power, flown airplanes, pinpointed tumors, predicted climate trends and identified fossil fuels. Much more progress lies ahead. When Blue Gene /P, the familys second generation, was unveiled in 2007, it nearly tripled the performance of Blue Gene/L, immediately becoming the most energy-efficient and space-saving computing package built, at that point in time.
On February 8, 2011, IBM announced the 10-petaflop Blue Gene/Q supercomputer Mira, in collaboration with the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory located near Chicago, Illinois. Mira was designed to enable significant advances in designing ultra-efficient electric car batteries, understanding global climate change, exploring the evolution of our universe and more. IBM continues to explore the cutting edge of high-performance computing as part of its ongoing quest to change the way research and science can be done.
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By George Avalos Oakland Tribune
SAN JOSE -- Super Micro Computer, a fast-growing networking and communications company, intends to build a 1.6 million-square-foot complex at the Mercury News' current site in North San Jose that could have 2,800 or more employees and will include something rare for the Bay Area: manufacturing activities.
The company has submitted to the city preliminary plans for the project, which will include light manufacturing, offices and warehouse space. The plans include 2,800 parking spaces, which suggests a major employment boost for San Jose.
The proposed complex, which will be built on 36 acres near the interchange of Interstate 880 and Brokaw Road, would rise near the current Super Micro headquarters and engineering operations.
A Ridder Park Drive sign is shown in front of the San Jose Mercury News newspaper office, owned by McClatchy, in San Jose, Calif., Thursday, July 13, 2006. (PAUL SAKUMA/AP file photo)
Super Micro bought the site from Digital First Media, the parent company of the Mercury News, for about $30.5 million in September. The newspaper is expected to relocate to downtown San Jose, where it will move about 300 editorial, advertising and administration employees.
Super Micro officials couldn't be immediately reached for comment, but city officials said the company will retain its current facilities and that its new complex will be an expansion of its operations.
"Super Micro has told us they are growing and they need to expand, particularly in warehousing and light manufacturing and assembly," said Nanci Klein, San Jose's deputy economic development director. "We are very excited to see them moving forward on this."
Over its most recent 12 months, Super Micro earned $36 million on revenue of $1.27 billion.
"Super Micro is doing very well, their financials are strong and they are a market leader," said Rob Enderle, a San Jose-based analyst who tracks the tech sector. "They are one of the up-and-comers."
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OTTAWA No computer in Ottawa was accessed illicitly by someone using a super-account to delete damaging gas-plants documents, a government cybersecurity expert now says, contradicting testimony he gave to a Queens Park committee last week.
Shawn Truax was part of the government investigation into improper computer access that may have been used to conceal information about whether senior Liberals working for then-premier Dalton McGuinty knew that cancelling two unpopular gas-powered generating plants before the 2011 election could cost Ontarians as much as $1 billion, instead of the $40 million McGuinty and others estimated at the time.
The investigation scooped up 52 hard drives, including a handful from a provincial government office on Elgin Street, and last week Truax testified he believed one of them had been accessed using special privileges granted on the authority of McGuintys chief of staff, David Livingston. Police are now investigating whether Livingston committed a crime by, as they allege, handing those privileges over to an outside computer expert to erase files that government employees wouldnt.
Truax told the committee of MPPs hed have to check his notes to be sure, and promised to follow up with a letter spelling out the details.
Last week, trying hard to connect the affair to people now in the government under Premier Kathleen Wynne, Progressive Conservatives suggested the computer was used by current Ottawa South MPP John Fraser, who was a senior McGuinty aide before being elected his successor. He worked in the office in the 180 Elgin St. office where Truaxs people collected hard drives.
Actually, Truaxs letter says, his investigators didnt find that any computer in Ottawa was involved. They gathered up and scanned five computer hard drives, including Frasers, but they didnt find that any of them had been accessed in the manner in question.
I have confirmed that none of the hard drives obtained from the Ottawa location were in the group of 24 hard drives that we determined had been accessed by the (special) administrative access right, Truaxs letter says. I wish to thank the committee for the opportunity to clarify my statements, and apologize for any misunderstanding that may have resulted from my testimony.
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Partnering for Success: The University of Texas Stampede Supercomputing Data Center
The Stampede data center at the University of Texas, Austin contains a super computer meant to solve Texas-sized problems. So building it required not just t...
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Highlights include Extreme Performance 4U 8x GPU SuperServer for NVIDIA Iray VCA, 4U 4-Way 6TB SuperServer and High Bandwidth 12Gb/s SAS3 SuperStorage Solutions
LAS VEGAS - Super Micro Computer, Inc. (NASDAQ: SMCI), a global leader in high-performance, high-efficiency server, storage technology and green computing brings its latest extreme computing and storage solutions to the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) Show this week in Las Vegas, Nevada. In the spotlight will be Supermicro's latest Visual Computing Appliance, the NVIDIA Iray VCA, an 4U 8x GPU SuperServer (SYS-4027GR-TR) that delivers unprecedented rendering speed and performance using eight of NVIDIA's most powerful GPUs for extremely interactive photo-realistic pre-visualization of computer models and final frame rendering of the highest fidelity. For large memory-intensive editing projects, Supermicro's new multi-processor (MP) 4U 4-Way SuperServer (SYS-4048B-TRFT) takes full advantage of quad Intel Xeon E7-8800/4800 v2 (155 watt TDP) processors and supports up to 6TB in 96x DIMM slots, up to 48x 2.5" hot-swap HDD/SSDs, 12Gb/s SAS3, 11x PCI-E 3.0 slots and dual 10GBase-T ports for unleashed productivity. 4U 12x GPU FatTwin(TM) and 7U SuperBlade 30x GPU platforms offer maximum compute performance for high density, highly scalable render farm clusters and applications. In addition, the new 2U Cluster-in-a-Box (CiB) SuperStorage server (SSG-2027B-CIB020H) offers 20TB raw storage capacity in 24x hot-swap 2.5" SAS1/SAS2 drive bays populated with 4x SSDs and 20x 1TB nearline SAS HDDs. This solution is Windows Storage Server 2012 R2 Standard certification for easy deployment and can cascade up to four Supermicro JBODs (16x 3.5" hot-swap bays) to support over 400TB of performance tiered high availability storage for the most demanding, mission critical media production applications. For extreme storage requirements Supermicro will also exhibit its ultra high density/capacity 4U 90x hot-swap 3.5" HDD/SSD bay (SC847DE26-R2K02JBOD) Double-Sided Storage JBOD solution. With the explosive demand for HD and UHD 4K/8K digital media rising Supermicro has the widest range of complete server and storage solutions optimized for end to end acquisition, production and global distribution applications.
"Supermicro is the leading source for complete server and storage solutions optimized to meet critical infrastructure needs across the broadcast and entertainment media ecosystem," said Charles Liang, President and CEO of Supermicro. "Our extreme performance systems are unrivaled in the industry featuring up to 12x GPUs in the 2 node 4U FatTwin and full range of 1U rack mount to 7U Blade form factors for ultra high definition media, CG and VFX production. Our high capacity, wide bandwidth storage solutions are always first to market with the most advanced performance and data protection technologies available such as 12Gb/s SAS3, NVMe and CiB fail-safe redundancy for maximum workflow productivity. As compute and storage needs rapidly increase in the media broadcast industry, Supermicro has the latest most cost effective solutions ready to scale on demand."
Server and Storage Solution Highlights at NAB 2014:
-- 4U 8x GPU SuperServer (SYS-4027GR-TR) - Platform behind the NVIDIA Iray Visual Computing Appliance (VCA). Supports dual Intel Xeon E5-2600 v2 processors, up to 1.5TB in 24x DIMMs and up to 48x 2.5" hot-swap SAS2/SATA3 HDD/SSD bays -- 4U FatTwin -- (F647G2-F73PT+) - 2x hot-plug nodes supporting 12x GPUs (6x per node) dual Intel Xeon E5-2600 v2 series processors (up to 130W TDP) per node and supports 8x 2.5" hot-swap HDD/SSD bays -- (SYS-F627G3-FT+) - 4x hot-plug nodes supporting 12x GPUs (3x per node), dual Intel Xeon E5-2600 v2 series processors (up to 130W TDP) per node. Available with front I/O and supports 2x 3.5" or 6x 2.5" hot-swap HDD/SSD bays -- SuperBlade Solutions - The all-in-one 7U SuperBlade features redundant Platinum Level high-efficiency (94%+) power supplies, high speed connectivity through network switch modules, including 56Gb/s FDR IB (SBM-IBS-F3616M), FC/FCoE (SBM-XEM-F8X4SM), 10GbE (SBM-XEM-X10SM) and 1/10GbE (SBM-GEM-X3S+) and centralized remote management software. -- 3x GPU SuperBlade (SBI-7127RG3) - Supports 3x NVIDIA Tesla K20X GPUs in the SXM form factor, dual Intel Xeon E5-2600 v2 series processors, up to 256GB memory and onboard BMC for IPMI 2.0 support. 10x blades in 7U SuperBlade enclosure scales to best density (180x GPUs and 120x CPUs) and performance (256 TFLOPS theoretical) per 42U rack. -- 2x GPU SuperBlade (SBI-7127RG-E) - Supports 2x GPUs, dual Intel Xeon E5-2600 v2 series processors, up to 256GB memory, 1x SSD or 1x SATA-DOM, and onboard BMC for IPMI 2.0 support. 10x blades in 7U SuperBlade enclosure offers high density (120x GPUs and 120x CPUs) and performance (178 TFLOPS theoretical) per 42U rack. -- 4U 4-Way SuperServer (SYS-4048B-TRFT) - Quad Intel Xeon processor E7-8800 v2 / 4800 v2 family (up to 15 Cores and 155W), up to 6TB DDR3 1600MHz ECC RDIMMs and LRDIMMs in 96x DIMM sockets, 24x 2.5" hot-swap SAS3/SATA3 HDD or SSD (selected RAID/HBA cards) 48x 2.5" hot-swap HDD/SSD optional -- 4U Double-Sided Storage JBOD Solution (SC847DE26-R2K02JBOD) - Extreme storage with ultra high density/capacity 90x 3.5" HDD/SSD bays in 45x (24 front + 21 rear) hot-swap drive bays (2x HDD or SSD per bay) -- 2U Cluster-in-a-Box Storage Server (SSG-2027B-CIB020H) - Windows Storage Server 2012 R2 Standard certified, dual Intel Xeon processor E5-2403 (1.8GHz), 20TB (SSG-2027B) raw storage capacity in 24x hot-swap 2.5" SAS1/SAS2 drive bays populated with 4x SSDs and 20x 1TB nearline SAS HDDs, 3x PCI-E 3.0 slots per node (can be used for host or storage expansion) -- 2U SuperStorage Server (SSG-2027R-AR24NV) - Dual Intel Xeon E5-2600 v2 processors, NV-DIMM support up to 512GB in 16x DIMMs, 24x 2.5" hot-swap 12Gb/s SAS3 or SATA3 HDD/SSD bays with direct attached backplane (12Gbps per bay) -- 1U GRID VDI SuperServer (SYS-1027GR-TR2) - NVIDIA GRID(TM) VDI solution, 3x GPUs, dual Intel Xeon E5-2680 v2 processors, 16GB DDR3-1866, 2x Intel 520 2.5" 240GB SATA 6Gb/s MLC SSD -- 1U HPC SuperServer (SYS-1027GR-TQFT) - High Performance Computing (HPC) solution, 4x GPUs, dual Intel Xeon E5-2600 v2 processors (up to 115W TDP), up to 512GB memory and 4x hot-swap 2.5" SATA3 HDD bays -- 3U GPU SuperServer (SYS-6037R-72RFT+) -2x GPUs, dual Intel Xeon E5-2600 v2 processors (up to 135W TDP), up to 1.5TB memory and 8x hot-swap 3.5" SAS2 HDD/SSD bays -- 4U/Tower SuperWorkstation (SYS-7047GR-TRF / -TPRF) - Ultimate performance (NVIDIA Maximus Technology Certified) supporting up to 5x GPUs, dual Intel Xeon E5-2600 v2 processors, up to 1TB memory and 8x hot-swap 3.5" HDD bays - Blackmagic DaVinci Resolve Demo -- 4U/Tower Hyper-Speed SuperServer (SYS-7047AX-TRF) - Hyper-Speed hardware acceleration, dual Intel Xeon E5-2600 v2 processors (up to 150W TDP), up to 1TB in 16x DIMMs and 8x hot-swap 3.5" SATA HDD/SSD bays - CINEBENCH benchmark demo -- High Bandwidth 10-Gigabit Ethernet Top-of-Rack Switches: Cost-effective 24-port SSE-X24S, 48-port SSE-X3348T/TR 10GBASE-T switch. Versatile 52-port SSE-G2252P with Power-over-Ethernet (PoE) capability.
Supermicro's latest extreme-performance, high capacity server and storage innovations are exhibited in Booth SL14509 at NAB Show in the Las Vegas Convention Center, April 7-10. For information on Supermicro's complete line of high performance computing solutions visit http://www.supermicro.com.
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San Antonio has been selected as the home for PAX Central, a kind of Super Bowl for the computer gaming industry, and that is another indication that the city is emerging as a major center for technology and for young adult popular culture, 1200 WOAI's Michael Board reports.
PAX events currently take plane annually in Boston, Seattle and in Australia, and the head of PAX says a central event in San Antonio was 'always a matter of 'when,' rather than 'if.'
City Council Diego Bernal says the decision to locate the 'celebration of gamer culture' speaks volumes about how San Antonio is emerging as a cultural destination for college educated millennials.
"When I was in high school, a lot of people who were destined to go to college couldn't wait to get out of this town," Bernal said. "Now they can't wait to come back."
It also reinforces San Antonio's standing as a major center in the technical industry.
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We all know that Edward Snowden insists on secure email, but he's also very picky about his operating systems, too. In fact, he uses a free, super-secure version of Linuxcalled Tailsthat fits on a USB stick and can be used on any computer without leaving a trace.
Linux installs on USB sticks are nothing new, sure. But Tails is an operating system optimized for anonymityand it's used by the likes of Edward Snowden and Glenn Greenwald to keep their digital lives as secure as possible. In its developers' words:
Tails is a live system that aims to preserve your privacy and anonymity. It helps you to use the Internet anonymously and circumvent censorship almost anywhere you go and on any computer but leaving no trace unless you ask it to explicitly. It is a complete operating system designed to be used from a DVD, USB stick, or SD card independently of the computer's original operating system.
Which sounds either very useful or very suspicious depending on how you read between the lines! In fact, the developers behind the OS remain anonymous, in part, according to Wired, to help protect the code from government interference.
Tails uses Tor to maintain your anonymity, along with PGP, the password management system KeePassX, and the chat encryption plugin Off-the-Record. It's also carefully designed to never leave a trace on any computer that it's used on. Again, the developers explain:
Tails is configured with special care to not use the computer's hard-disks, even if there is some swap space on them. The only storage space used by Tails is the RAM, which is automatically erased when the computer shuts down. So you won't leave any trace neither of the Tails system nor of what you did on the computer. That's why we call it "amnesic".
Sound like the kind of thing you need? Well, you can download it for free and give it a go. [Tails via Wired]
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The Philippine Genome Center (PGC) officially opened on Monday, April 14, its Core Facility for Bioinformatics (CFB) to provide local scientists and researchers a suite of services for genome-scale data generation and analysis.
IBM Philippines and DOST officials announce the launch of the Blue Gene at a forum in UP Diliman on Monday, April 14. Photo credit: Owen Cammayo
At the heart of the facility is an IBM super computer dubbed Blue Gene which the US-based tech giant provided to the Philippine government.
The bioinformatics unit complements the next generation sequencing services being offered by the centers DNA Sequencing Core Facility (DSCF).
It offers high-performance computing resources, hardware and software, needed to analyze, manage/curate, and archive massive amount of data derived from next-generation sequencing.
Apart from data storage and analytics, researchers working with genomics-based technologies may also avail of the CFBs custom-made/client-focused services such as provision of software, specialized databases or technical support for varied bioinformatics analyses, and also the use and access to high-performance computing resources.
The Core Facility for Bioinformatics, a part of the research project capability building in R&D genomics is now open to local researchers through the grant from the Philippine Council for Industry, Energy and Emerging Technology Research and Development (PCIEERD), said Dr. Carmencita D. Padilla, executive director of the PGC.
In 2012, IBM teamed up with the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) to establish the first Philippine Systems and Technology R&D Lab.
As part of the initiative, the DOST also received an IBM Blue Gene/P super computer for use in research and development projects aligned with the national agenda, which includes improving weather forecasts, disaster management, precision agriculture, and health.
Although primarily seen as a catalyst in the advancement of bioinformatics and computational genomics research in the country, the CFB is also designed to contribute in addressing the lack of local experts in bioinformatics/computational biology.
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Liverpool are now the favourites to win their first title of the Premier League era following their thrilling win against Man City.
The last time the Reds were crowned champions of England Alan Hansen was still captain, but the 3-2 win at Anfield has put the title in their hands.
This has been reflected by those smart chaps at Bloomberg, whose projections have Liverpool pipping Man City by two points come the season's conclusion, giving the Redmen a 51.34 per cent chance of winning a first league title in almost 24 years.
However, it is bad news for all those Tottenham fans who claim they do not want Europa League football next season. Bloomberg's 'super computer' have them edging Man United to sixth place, while sadly for Roberto Martinez, Everton will not cap his excellent debut season with a Champions League spot.
At the other end of the table, Fulham are being tipped to survive the drop at the expense of Norwich, who they recently beat 1-0 to secure three much needed points.
The projected table makes interesting reading for Man City fans though, despite many believing they will still win the Premier League.
Liverpool fans, will you win the Premier League? Man City fans do you agree with the projected final table?
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Supercomputers are astonishing feats of engineering, boasting mind-blowing processing power and the ability to calculate the answer to life, the universe and everything. But to some they are supervillains rather than superheroes. For decades governments around the world funded supercomputers with military applications in mind, and some of the most powerful machines ever made were put to work modelling missile trajectories and simulating nuclear war.
Today's supercomputers still do some of that, but they're increasingly being used with the very best intentions: to model the effects of climate change, to find better ways of using energy, to investigate new materials, design new kinds of vehicles and to predict natural disasters.
Take IBM's Watson: after a brief career winning game shows, it's taken a more serious job identifying the most effective treatments for a common brain cancer known as glioblastoma. The system has also been used to identify appropriate treatments for patients with lung cancer.
Watson is an impressive machine, but as supercomputers go it's actually quite modest: its 2,880 processor cores and 16TB of RAM sounds great until you discover that Tianhe-2, aka Milky Way 2, has more than three million cores and 1,375 tebibytes of RAM. That's enough to run Crysis 3 with everything turned up to eleven - so what does it and its fellow supercomputers do all day? Allow us to introduce the world's ten most powerful computers and the high points of their CVs.
China
Reckon your quad-core PC is pretty powerful? The National Super Computer Center in Guangzhou, China, has a machine with a staggering 3,120,000 cores delivering 33.86 petaFLOPs. The machine was developed by China's National University of Defense Technology (NUDT) and as you might expect the defence side of things is shrouded in secrecy, but Chinese media reports say it'll also be used to predict earthquakes, for climate modelling and to help China's car industry. That latter claim has baffled many observers: automobile engineering professor Bian Mingyaun of Tsinghua University told the South China Morning Post that using a supercomputer to design cars was "like running after a chicken with an axe quite unnecessary."
Japan
Fujitsu's K Computer is another former number one: in 2011 it was the first computer to top 10 petaFLOPs. It's installed at the RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science in Kobe, Japan, where it runs a variety of applications for tasks including disaster prevention, medical science and climate modelling. That requires a lot of power: at full pelt the K Computer uses the same amount of energy of nearly 10,000 suburban homes.
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Transcendence: Johnny Depps Brain Becomes the Internet, Morgan Freeman Has a Question
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*Morgan Freeman may have played God twice on the big screen, but in his latest film Transcendence, its Johnny Depp who gets to feel like the Alpha and the Omega.
He plays artificial intelligence researcher Dr. Will Caster, striving to create a super computer that combines the collective intelligence of everything ever known with the ability to feel the full range of human emotion, a process he calls transcendence.
His work has a contingent of haters anti-technology extremists who place a target on his back, but inadvertently give the good doctor exactly what he wantsa chance to be the guinea pig who transcends.
Caster no longer in his body, but in the machine starts feeling his omnipresence. His knowledge and power is now as vast and endless as the Internet that his brain has absorbed. And the question inevitably becomes, has technology now officially gone too far? For Caster, it clearly has.
I think Will is dedicated to the cause, and yeah, maybe power when you realize essentially that youre God, Depp said at the films press conference this week. There aint nothing on earth more powerful than you. You can do anything you want. You can transfer every cent from the Bank of England into an account in Syria or whatever. I think Will was just so focused on the cause and its sort of like Che Guevara in a way. You get too far into it.
Morgan Freeman and Johnny Depp in Transcendence
Freeman plays Joseph Tagger, part of a team sent out to mitigate the damage after Casters consciousness is uploaded into the computer. Despite the growing concerns of Casters wife Evelyn (Rebecca Hall) and best friend Max Waters (Paul Bettany), both researchers as well, Caster not only continues his quest for power, but has seemingly achieved his goal of expressing human emotions through the machine or so he thinks.
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Keir Dullea and Gary Lockwood in Melbourne on Thursday. Photo: Michael Clayton-Jones
There are many distinctive elements to Stanley Kubrick's 1968 2001: A Space Odyssey - from extraordinary visual effects to challenging themes, from brilliant production design to inventive use of music. One of its most distinctive details is the soft, deceptively calm voice of HAL, the super computer, who suddenly goes rogue during the space mission that takes up the second half of the film.
Yet it's not a voice the people making the movie ever heard on set. Keir Dullea and Gary Lockwood, both 77, played the two astronauts, Dave Bowman and Frank Poole, whose encounters with HAL are part of cinema history. But Kubrick hadn't found the voice he wanted for HAL, they recall, so during production various people delivered HAL's dialogue.
Dullea - whose character hears that famous, ominous line ''I'm afraid I can't do that, Dave'' - often found himself talking to the first assistant director, Derek Cracknell, whose Cockney accent he's quick to imitate. ''It was like working with Michael Caine,'' he says. ''In my case,'' says Lockwood, ''Stanley played HAL with me a couple of times.''
Gary Lockwood in 2001: A Space Odyssey.
At first, Kubrick thought of using a female voice, and calling the computer Athena. Then he was going to cast American actor Martin Balsam, but felt he sounded too New York. Nigel Davenport was on set for a week, Dullea says, before Kubrick decided he was too English.
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It wasn't until post-production that Kubrick settled on Canadian actor Douglas Rain.
Dullea and Lockwood are in Melbourne this week to do a Q&A session after a screening of a 70mm print at the Astor Theatre on Friday, and to appear at Supanova pop culture expo at the Showgrounds at the weekend.
They are happy to talk about the tiniest detail of 2001, to reflect on what Lockwood calls ''a societal game-changer'', and to talk about a director who was open to anything and everything. And there are new things for them to learn about the film after all this time.
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Usually its your personal computer, tablet, or smart phone that puts you at risk of sharing your personal information, but a new security bug isnt stealing through your device, its targeting the sites you browse.
Deemed Heartbleed, the bug targets a specific program called Open SSL. The program is designed to keep information like usernames, passwords, credit card numbers, bank accounts, ect. encrypted so anyone who may hack into the sites cant read it. Heartbleed makes it possible for hackers to decode that information and store it. Some estimate more than 65% of Internet sites use SSL.
What makes the problem more serious is that each site is in charge of fixing their own problem and theres nothing internet users can do about it until they do.
Willie Kerns with Smarthpath Technologies said its one of the worst breeches in history.
This has proven even what you think is safe, isn't safe, he said.
He said if it makes consumers feel better they can change the passwords to all of their accounts, but its not going to stop Heartbleed from reading the information if the site hasnt fixed it yet. The best defense is to avoid any online banking, shopping, or even browsing unfamiliar sites until the bug has been detained. Kerns estimates it will only take a few days before most major sites are secure, but smaller sites could take longer.
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