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Supercomputer Eye on the Universe

Wednesday, April 27th, 2005

Looks like the Europeans, the Dutch to be precise, have found an interesting use for what Reuters calls the most powerful computer in Europe in terms of sustained performance (27.4 teraflops). According to the article, which I picked up off CNN, the IBM system will:

“…process signals from up to 13 billion light years from earth — as far back in time as the beginnings of the earliest stars and galaxies after the formation of the universe.”

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Rumination on innovation

Thursday, April 21st, 2005

The New York Times has an interesting piece on Eric von Hippel’s new “Democratizing Innovation” (Oooh…a Creative Commons license!) in the April 20 edition. Not directly up our alley here, but it does make some nice, perhaps belaboured connections between kite surfing (extreme sports as open-source exemplar, anyone?) and Linux.

(Hat tip to O’Reilley’s new Radar blog. They use words like “obviate” without a hint of irony, but we like ‘em anyway.)

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