A Laboratory of the Future Human Experience
The credit card industry is much bigger than just the credit card companies and the banks. There’s an entire ecosystem of payment processors, service providers, and would-be disruptors from Silicon Valley fighting over the space.
Continue reading… “Who the main players are in the credit card payments industry”
Titan is a supercomputer built by Cray at Oak Ridge National Laboratory for use in a variety of science projects.
When we buy a new computer we think at some point that it must be a supercomputer, at least when you compare it to the computer you had prior to the new one. it seems our computers are getting slower, but that is not really the case. What happens is that the software we use on it gets more powerful, which makes the computer struggle more. That’s when we all wish we had access to one of the many supercomputers currently being constructed throughout the world.
Continue reading… “World’s top 10 fastest supercomputers of 2013 (Infographic)”
I knew that processors–like castles–are made of sand. But I didn’t know they required stuff like ion implantation at more than 185,000mph, electroplating, and the creation of up to 20 metal layers of transistor connections in 500nm. (Pics)
Continue reading… “How Computer Processors Are Made”
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKK933KK6Gg[/youtube]
In a presentation made at Nvidia’s NVISION show this week, Adam and Jamie unveiled a 1100 barrel paintball gun and-in an instant-painted a pretty convincing (if slightly drippy) Mona Lisa. In typical MythBusters fashion, the incredibly elaborate experiment was only tenuously linked to their hypothesis. The presentation was intended to represent the difference in operation between single and multicore processors, referring to current gen CPUs versus GPUs, respectively.
Continue reading… “MythBusters Paint Mona Lisa with 1,100 Shots from a Paintball Gun”
