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On Thursday September 7th program Ken and Andy talked about Fastest supercomputer to be built, P2P hogs putting pressure on bandwidth, 3G Subscriptions to Reach 285 Million Worldwide, Advertisers look to mobile phones, IPTV to convert 48 million by 2010, Sprint streams full-length movies to mobiles, and Microsoft hint to Vista delay.
Silicon Valley will be one massive WiFi hotspot. Korean Air bans all Dell laptops and some Apple laptops. IBM will build the world’s most powerful computer at a US government laboratory. The codename of the supercomputer is Roadrunner. TOP FIVE SUPERCOMPUTERS
Blue Gene/L, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, California. (131,072 processors)
BGW Blue Gene, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, New York (40,960 processors)
ASC Purple, Department of Energy, USA (12,208 processors)
Columbia, NASA Ames Research Center, USA (10,160 processors)
Tera-10, Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique (CEA), France (8,704 processors)
Sprint offers pay-per-view movies to its subscription streaming video service. The Bank of Ireland agrees to refund victims of a phishing scam. |
