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POPSA roar from the past :) Each Parasaurolophus probably had a voice that was distinctive enough not only to distinguish it from other dinosaurs, but from other Parasaurolophuses. The sound may have been somewhat birdlike, and they may have made songs of some sort to call to one another.
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POPSRoom temperature superconductivity: One step closer to the Holy Grail of physics The researchers have discovered where the charge 'hole' carriers that play a significant role in the superconductivity originate within the electronic structure of copper-oxide superconductors. These findings are particularly important for the next step of deciphering the glue that binds the holes together and determining what enables them to superconduct.
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POPSCongress Blinds The FBI These predictive models get better as the quality of the information going into them improves. As more terrorists are captured and interrogated, and their computers and data is translated, the predictions become more accurate. No one harasses researchers for using data mining, or makes fun of building supercomputers with graphics processors (often the same ones found in video game consoles, making super-fast computers cheap enough to be used in a combat zone to make life saving predictions), when it saves troops from getting killed. The FBI has been unable to make this point to Congress, mainly because some key legislators are ideologically opposed to data mining, and refuse to acknowledge the widespread success of the technique in civilians and military sectors.
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POPSHow power-hungry are the Top500 supercomputers? But what might have surprised the authors of the list the most is that 301 of the 500 supercomputers on last November's list are nowhere to be seen. After seven months, they're simply not powerful enough to make the list. :-)
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POPSPlease notice the news: supercomputer slices asslump And also notice that the IRS now has supercomputers in order to control your life. So be not surprised, in the near future, if you feel like your ass is being licked by such advanced technologies... Any itches there should be noticed and preventive actions taken. Before it´s too late...
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POPSOn This Day 10 Years Ago, Chess Champion Defeated By Supercomputer WN: Kasparov's request for a rematch was turned down. Why do you think that was? It looked like IBM had got good publicity but took the ball away and didn't want to play anymore. Campbell: I believe we had accomplished what we were trying to do for so many years and it was time to move on to other problems. Garry Kasparov has now retired from chess and Deep Blue is in a museum so that's not going to happen, but matches between other computers and the current world champion have taken place as recently as last year.
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POPSSelf-healing ceramics for nuclear safety nuclear energy gets leg up with new technologies-this is but one example of why I'm optimistic on America-we continue to be the innovators-I'm no fan of nuclear, but if we're gonna go that way, this is a good development!
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POPSDonate Your CPU To Fighting AIDS When you're not using your PC, all it's processing power is lying unused, wasted. It doesn't have to. Distributed computing lets you team up with SETI researchers to discover alien life, or donate processing power to the struggle to find a cure for cancer. :)
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POPSOne Computer Could Run Entire Internet Hard to imagine how this is possible, and it seems counterintuitive to think of the Internet as a single computer. But it fits with the strange trend that's underway: After becoming more and more distributed, computing is again becoming more and more centralized, with thin, simple nodes at the edge and massive hardware at the core.
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POPSIran Reports MidEasts's Most Powerful Supercomputer The supercomputer will be used for "WEATHER PURPOSES". Uh-huh. Sure it will - despite US sanctions against having a supercomputer capable of of conducting calculations faster than 190 billion operations per second. And according to international trade regulations, supercomputers performing over 190 billion operations per second are considered strategic equipment and their sale is subject to sanctions. A VERY "STRATEGIC" WEATHER MACHINE INDEED!
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POPSFPGA Coprocessor Integrated into HyperTransport Cray and DRC may have a pretty cool thing here. An SMP AMD system with one of these modules to move an FPGA from down on the PCI bus right onto HyperTransport. Cray/DRC are not the first to think of this move, but this might be the best implementation I've heard of so far.
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