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____/ Mark Kent on Thursday 18 Feb 2010 08:04 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
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>> ____/ Mark Kent on Friday 12 Feb 2010 07:21 : \____
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>>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
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>>>> ____/ Mark Kent on Sunday 07 Feb 2010 09:18 : \____
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>>>>>
>>>>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
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>>>>>> ____/ Mark Kent on Friday 05 Feb 2010 16:39 : \____
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>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Chinaâs Next Supercomputer is using Linux
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>>>>>>| China is on its way to make a new indigenous
>>>>>>>>| supercomputer build with custom
>>>>>>>>| microprocessors developed at the Institute Of
>>>>>>>>| Computing Technology. This supercomputer, the
>>>>>>>>| petascale Dawning 6000 is a successor of the
>>>>>>>>| current fastest supercomputer China has, the
>>>>>>>>| Dawning 5000a. The Dawning 5000a has been
>>>>>>>>| running on AMD powered microprocessors and
>>>>>>>>| Windows HPC Server as itâs OS. The Dawning
>>>>>>>>| 5000a ranks 11th in the world. Apart from
>>>>>>>>| that, China also holds the #5 supercomputer in
>>>>>>>>| the top 500 list.
>>>>>>>> `----
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> http://techie-buzz.com/linux-news/chinas-supercomputer-linux.html
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The Dawning 5000a was ranked 19th in the World last November, the last
>>>>>>> time the top500.org list was updated.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> This is, to be fair, an incredible achievement for Windows, though. One
>>>>>>> wonders how often the nodes crash, and how the overall machine recovers.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> We once tried Windows clusters over here and it was a disaster. Not much
>>>>>> has changed since then. Windows is built by Microsoft alone, not
>>>>>> clustering experts like IBM (whose developers write Linux).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Microsoft has more or lost lost its ambition in HPC (they rarely mention
>>>>>> it). Windows also loses the mobile sector, which is probably the fastest
>>>>>> growing.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> My mental image of data networks in the future has arbitrarily capable
>>>>> terminals (perhaps a pen, a watch?), linked by best connectivity to a
>>>>> huge computing clusters which hold data and provide massive computing
>>>>> power.
>>>>>
>>>>> The hard bit is making voice work effectively, though... 3-mode
>>>>> networks are the proper solution, but there's a huge amount of
>>>>> commercial pressure towards a one-size-fits-all approach, which
>>>>> basically is ineffective at best.
>>>>
>>>> Voice is still slower than thought, but it is more precise with a trigger
>>>> that's less sensitive.
>>>
>>> That's not the fundamental problem, rather, it's that the brain has
>>> evolved in a physical universe of waves carrying information, rather
>>> than packets (wave/particle duality notwithstanding).
>>>
>>> Further, conversation, rather than listening, imposes a huge range of
>>> constraints on what the brain can handle, particularly around latency
>>> and loss of information.
>>>
>>>
>>>> That said, human evolution made us fast communicators and
>>>> audiovisual processors, so pseudo-telepathy (mind interpretation with
>>>> sensors) is likely too far fetched. It's already possible but only at a
>>>> crude level... there are nice video demos of spinning a ball with one's
>>>> mind after some quick training phase (a few minutes).
>>>>
>>>
>>> We have communications at brain-wave level established already, albeit
>>> in a very simplistic way.
>>
>> Monkeys with semi-open skulls are sometimes used in such experiments. Rather
>> disturbing.
>>
>
> eeuyyk.. nasty. I was referring, rather, to some brainwave comms
> established with someone previously thought to have been in a coma, but
> actually was aware (scary!), the medics were able to communicate by
> speaking to the patient and watched brainwave variations to determine
> that the person was understanding and reacting to the stimuli.
>
> The very very disturbing result is that all those people who are
> "allowed to die" when in a coma might well have been very alive, and
> might even have been able to recover, given enough time.
Oh, I see... so it's kind of like home@SETI, only inside a person's body!
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