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Meet Gordon, the World’s First Flash Supercomputer | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com
Supercomputers aren’t what they used to be. The Chinese are building a supercomputer with their own microprocessors, shunning American chip giants Intel and AMD. The Spanish are building one with cellphone chips. And this week, the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) officially plugged in the first supercomputer that uses flash storage rather than good old-fashioned spinning disks.
Naturally, they call it Gordon. As in Flash Gordon.
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Penn State Live – Rise of atmospheric oxygen more complicated than previously thought
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Study: Giant Super-Earths Made Of Diamond Are Possible
A new study suggests that some stars in the Milky Way could harbor “carbon super-Earths” – giant terrestrial planets that contain up to 50 percent diamond.
But if they exist, those planets are likely devoid of life as we know it.
The finding comes from a laboratory experiment at Ohio State University, where researchers recreated the temperatures and pressures of Earth’s lower mantle to study how diamonds form there.
The larger goal was to understand what happens to carbon inside planets in other solar systems…
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The Maddow Blog – ‘My Republicans seem to be intent on suicide’
As President Obama has stuck to the timeline for ending the Iraq War this year, Republican leaders have voiced as a chief complaint that the war has somehow not been long enough and that America should leave tens of thousands of troops in place.
Last night on the show, Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, former chief of staff for Secretary of State Colin Powell, talked about what’s going on in his own Republican Party.
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The Habitable Exoplanets Catalog, a new online database of habitable worlds
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UCR Newsroom: Rarest U.S. Bumblebee Rediscovered
Cockerell’s Bumblebee was last seen in the United States in 1956, say UC Riverside entomologists
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