Legion: I’ve never heard that supercomputers may approach conscious thought, but who knows?
Denton;
Today’s supercomputers are not your dad’s. They are mostly built from commodity processors, especially the Intel X86. The processors are “clustered” together by a switch which uses a protocol called “infinband” (Ethernet is not good enough – it has too much latency).
If you’re looking to invest into this sector, I would asvise that you look at the two companies that make these Infiniband switches: Voltaire and Mellanox. They are Israeli companies, but they list on the NASDAQ too. These are the companies I visit in Israel. All the big players, IBM, HP, etc. OEM their switch.
My role in all this is supplying super-high-bandwidth “Active optical cables” that connect the switches and the processors. One super-computer requires literally hundreds of thousands of these cables. Hellloooo sales!!!!
An active optical cable is one that is terminated in copper, but has lasers embedded in it to boost the bandwidth. 150 Gb/s, baby!
I once had a client who used neural networks to learn/assist him with trading energy. In the end, his system may have learned a few of the bad trading habits of humans.
benson, are you sure you should be leaking these things out on the internetz!?!?
*rob*
Folks;
Back for a second.
Legion: I’ve never heard that supercomputers may approach conscious thought, but who knows?
Denton;
Today’s supercomputers are not your dad’s. They are mostly built from commodity processors, especially the Intel X86. The processors are “clustered” together by a switch which uses a protocol called “infinband” (Ethernet is not good enough – it has too much latency).
If you’re looking to invest into this sector, I would asvise that you look at the two companies that make these Infiniband switches: Voltaire and Mellanox. They are Israeli companies, but they list on the NASDAQ too. These are the companies I visit in Israel. All the big players, IBM, HP, etc. OEM their switch.
My role in all this is supplying super-high-bandwidth “Active optical cables” that connect the switches and the processors. One super-computer requires literally hundreds of thousands of these cables. Hellloooo sales!!!!
An active optical cable is one that is terminated in copper, but has lasers embedded in it to boost the bandwidth. 150 Gb/s, baby!
denton,
how about this one;
Cardinal speaks out against Dictator Chavez and his persecution of political foes.
this story has something for everyone,
the church, the state, politics and Maria Conchita Alonzo.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hCudIJs-0SNJr_fNp80yQZ8JisuwD9EONID81
Yes, denton. I’m not sure what brief periods Cray shares actually did well. Probably for a while in the early 80s tech boom…along with SUNW and TNDM.
However, even UNISYS has its day.
im so proud of myself. last night i didnt eat the lunch i prepared to bring in today! YAY! that’s called will power btw!!
*rob*
We sure killed this thread.
Back to the health care plan?
Posted by: denton at March 30, 2010 11:29 AM
Just nothing about commandments.
I once had a client who used neural networks to learn/assist him with trading energy. In the end, his system may have learned a few of the bad trading habits of humans.
We sure killed this thread.
Back to the health care plan?
Not a good day to be wearing light colored pants.
I am soaking wet!