World's biggest computer built for US nuclear department

The US government is building a supercomputer for its nuclear department that will be the most powerful computer in the world.

The computer will be used by the Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) and will be ten times faster than today's most powerful system.

Two systems will be built for the super-computer by IBM. The first is Sequoia, a 20 petaFLOP/s (quadrillion floating operations per second) system based on future BlueGene technology. This will be delivered starting in 2011 and deployed in 2012. The second is an initial delivery system called Dawn, a 500 teraFLOP/s (trillion floating operations per second) BlueGene/P system, being delivered in the first quarter of 2009. Dawn will lay the applications foundation for multi-petaFLOP/s computing on Sequoia.

To put the size of the computer into perspective, if each of the 6.7 billion people on earth had a hand calculator and worked together on a calculation 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, it would take 320 years to do what Sequoia will do in one hour.

NNSA administrator Thomas D'Agostino said, "These powerful machines will provide NNSA with the capabilities needed to resolve time-urgent and complex scientific problems, ensuring the viability of the nation's nuclear deterrent into the future. This endeavour will also help maintain US leadership in high performance computing and promote scientific discovery."

source : http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2009/03/09/234614/World39s-biggest-computer-built-for-US-nuclear-department.htm

The most expensive laptop

In 1982 GriD Systems released the Compass 1100 laptop costing about $10,000 (inflation adjusted $20,200). Even this cost pales in comparison to the reports of a costly laptop that luxury manufacturer Luvaglio London is set to release in the near future by special order the most expensive laptop ever sold, with a price tag of a million dollars.

As of now all of the details are very sparse and the technical specifications have not been made fully available. We aren’t even sure what this laptop is made with to give it a cost of $1,000,000, but the exterior looks impressive. You can bet with a price this excessive, the expensive laptop will be a spectacle of precious metals and materials and include more than a couple gemstones.

In late 2005 the Dutch company Ego Lifestyle B.V. released the Tulip E-Go Diamond laptop, which was previously the world’s most expensive laptop and this mobile computer had over 80 total carats of diamonds and a retail price of €283,000.


SOURCE:http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/most-expensive-laptop-in-the-world-1-million-dollars/

10 Most Expensive Computer Keybords

1. Happy Hacking Keyboard HP Japan, PFU Ltd 525,000 yen
PFU Ltd of Ishikawa, Japan, an affiliate of Fujitsu, is producing the Happy Hacking Keyboard Professional HP Japan, a made-to-order keyboard handcoated with Urushi lacquer. This made to order keyboard is coated many times using a special brush made from the hairs of virgins, and then powdered with gold dust! The price for this expensive computer keyboard is a grand sum of 525,000 yen or about US $4,440.

2. 2000-IS-DT, 2000-IS-PM Stealth Computer $2,200.00
Going to war with your keyboard? Stealth Computer makes devices to reduce risk of failure in hazardous areas, the 2000-IS-DT & 2000-IS-PM come enclosed in non-corrosive stainless steel with an optical isolated barrier ensuring NEMA (National Electrical Manufacturers Association) 4X protection. What other keyboard has a temperature range of -40F to +194F (-40C to +90C)? Stealth makes many other expensive steel NEMA keyboards, but this one looks like the costliest. We’ll ignore the rest for the sake of making this article more interesting.

3. TouchStream LP, Fingerworks $1500+
These mystical keyboards originally retailed for $340 but since FingerWorks has been bought out and no longer produces keyboards, TouchStream LPs in great condition have started selling at inflated prices to fanatics. You can look for yours on eBay if you don’t mind spending hundreds on used computer accessories.

4. Executive Keyboard, Maltron £550.00
Maltron produces ergonomic keyboards they claim reduce the stresses on fingers, wrists, and arms while typing. This is one of their newer models made with Perspex, Stainless-Steel and Polycarbonate key-tops.

5. Dual Handed Ergonomic 3D, Maltron £375.00, £435.00

Get your Maltron keyboard in Qwerty, Maltron or Dvorak layouts! There are also US English, UK English, French, German, Norwegian/Norsk and Swedish versions available. The letter keys are angled inwards to match natural finger movements and the keys for the longer fingers are recessed. Getting a trackball on your crazy 3d keyboard will cost you an extra £65.

6. Professional II™, Datahand $675.00
What if a keyboard could be adjusted to fit the size and shape of each person’s hands? We’ll you’d have a Datahand! The unique finger and thumb switches change the 4 different typing modes.

7. Keyless Ergonomic Keyboard, orbiTouch $399.00
The orbiTouch Keyless ergonomic Keyboard creates a keystroke when you slide the two domes into one of their eight respective positions. You type the different characters by sliding the domes to create letters and numbers. The orbiTouch Keyless ergonomic Keyboard also has an integrated mouse, so moving the domes gives you full mouse and keyboard capability.

8. Comfort Keyboard, Comfort Keyboard Systems $349.00
The Comfort Keyboard is separated into three sections, which can be adjusted easily and locked into place. The Comfort Keyboard also features complete key reprogramming and a programmable “rest period indicator”, which reminds users to take a break?

9. Wireless Entertainment Desktop 8000, Microsoft $249
This media keyboard, otherwise known as the Ultimate Keyboard, due out in May features a magnetic dock with 4 USB ports. The ultra-thin ergonomic design was reportedly influenced by inspiration from details found in Cadillac and BMW interiors. An aluminum finish makes this keyboard quite attractive.

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We couldn’t finish a keyboard list without the OLED Keyboard. We’ve heard rumors it’ll cost $1200, but where will the OLED screen keyboard really place on the list of most expensive keyboards when it comes into production? So far, there have only been 3d renderings, but it has been reported a working model will debut at CeBIT later this month.

SOURCE:http://most-expensive.net/10-computer-keyboards

About Friendster

Friendster, a pioneer and leading global online social network, is focused on helping people stay in touch with friends and discover new people and things that are important to them. Friendster is one of the best sites that allow people to meaningfully participate with others in exciting and fun ways. Friendster prides itself in delivering an easy-to-use, friendly and interactive environment where users can easily connect with anyone around the world via www.friendster.com or m.friendster.com from any Internet-ready mobile device.

Friendster was acquired in December 2009 by MOL Global, the parent company of Asia’s leading online payment solutions provider MOL AccessPortal Berhad. Friendster and MOL have been combined to create Asia's largest end-to-end content, distribution and commerce network, pairing MOL's offline retail channel partners and payment platform with Friendster's large online footprint, social network and user community in Asia.

http://www.friendster.com/info/index.php

skype is for doing things together, whenever you’re apart. Skype’s text, voice and video make it simple to share experiences with the people that matter to you, wherever they are.

With Skype, you can share a story, celebrate a birthday, learn a language, hold a meeting, work with colleagues – just about anything you need to do together every day. You can use Skype on whatever works best for you - on your phone or computer or a TV with Skype on it. It is free to start using Skype - to speak, see and instant message other people on Skype for example. You can even try out group video, with the latest version of Skype.

If you pay a little, you can do more things, in more ways, with more people – like call phones, access WiFi or send texts. You can pay as you go or buy a subscription, whatever works for you. And in the world of business, this means you can bring your entire ecosystem of workers, partners and customers together to get things done. Try Skype out today and start adding your friends, family and colleagues. They won’t be hard to find; tens of millions of people are already using Skype to do all sorts of things together.

Founded in 2003 and based in Luxembourg, our purpose is to break down barriers to communication. Skype is owned by an investor group led by Silver Lake and which includes eBay Inc, Joltid Limited and Skype founders Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis, the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and Andreessen Horowitz. Skype had an average of 124 million connected users per month in the second quarter of 2010. Skype users made 95 billion minutes of voice and video calls in the first half of 2010, approximately 40% of which was video.

source:http://about.skype.com/

EDMODO the new social learning network for teacher and student:)

What is Edmodo?

Edmodo is a free, secure, social learning platform for teachers, students, schools and districts.

Edmodo provides teachers and students with a secure and easy way to post classroom materials, share links and videos, and access homework, grades and school notices.  Teachers and students can store and share all forms of digital content – blogs, links, pictures, video, documents, presentations, and more. There are also special institutional features for schools and districts that can be accessed for free by administrators.

Application in the Classroom: Edmodo provides teachers and students with a secure and easy way to post classroom materials, share links and videos, and access homework, grades and school notices.  Teachers and students can store and share all forms of digital content – blogs, links, pictures, video, documents, presentations, and more.

comment from me:

its useful and practical to use. It is very similar to Facebook, which will be an easy tool for students to learn.

source:http://help.edmodo.com/faq/what-is-edmodo/

the advantage and disadvantage using facebook:)

Facebook - a popular name among those who are so into it. Individuals who have an account in Facebook are now using more of their time to socialize with other people amidst the distance and lack of time. And even if a community like Facebook serves numerous advantages, it also proves to have certain disadvantages as well. There are now series of improvements in the system just to make up with the shortcomings. Arguments regarding the different advantages and disadvantages of Facebook are stated below.

Advantages 
· Allows user search for new and old friends
· Accessible to chosen universities having a high level of security
· Makes it less awkward when communicating with strangers or people you are not familiar with
· Love attraction - can be used as a dating service system
· Makes it easier to join groups having similar likes and dislikes
· Allows members to check students who are taking the same class, living within the same area, or coming from the same academy

Disadvantages
· Overcrowding
· Weakening long distance relationship
· Unsupported by physical adjacency
· Contributes wide-range procrastination
· Rampant addiction
· Stalking is possible
· Acquaintances be labeled as friends

Surely, the disadvantages don't pose a threat to you just by merely looking at it. Someone else has to prove that what users do with their profile is directly in proportion with what can happen to them. A user must understand what he is trying to give out otherwise things might get messy and people will mistook them as someone else.

Hope you enjoy it :D

source:http://ezinearticles.com/?Facebook-Advantage-and-Disadvantages&id=2051514

Nearly 75 million people visited twitter's site in January

After hitting a flat spot last fall, Twitter’s worldwide growth is pointing in the right direction again. According to worldwide comScore figures released today, Twitter’s own site attracted 73.5 million unique individuals in January, up 8 percent from December, 2009 (when it had 65.2 million visitors). Its annual growth rate is still a phenomenal 1,105 percent. A year ago, Twitter.com attracted only an estimated 6 million visitors.

Large sites like Twitter and Facebook before it tend to grow in step-like patterns, with bursts of growth followed by periods of flatness during which the site absorbs its new users and adapts to their needs. Twitter has certainly been improving the functionality of its own site, with the rollout of new features such as local trends a better suggested user list, Twitter Lists, and theRetweet button. Maybe all that work is starting to pay off.

ComScore only estimates activity on Twitter’s own site. Usage across other desktop, Web, and mobile apps may be twice as large as on Twitter itself. In January, CEO Ev Williams noted that the service had its best day ever, and Royal Pingdom estimates that it passed 1 billion tweets a month in December, and grew to about 1.2 billion Tweets in January, 2009.

Source:http://techcrunch.com/2010/02/16/twitter-75-million-people-january/

Google stops censoring in China :o

Google (GOOG, Fortune 500) is now redirecting its Chinese users to its Hong Kong site, google.com.hk, which offers uncensored search results, according to Google's company blog. Google's search site for Chinese users is now hosted on servers that are in Hong Kong.Until Monday, Google had been censoring certain search results on google.cn, in accordance with Chinese laws.

Now that Google is not hosting its search operations within mainland China, Google no longer needs to adhere to China's censorship laws. It is now up to the Chinese government to block access to the results it finds objectionable.

Currently, users are able to search for any term they like, including "controversial" subjects such as Tiananmen Square massacre," "Falun Gong" or "Dalai Lama," and all the results are being displayed, reports CNN's Beijing bureau. But when users try to click on one of those results, they are sent to pages that say "connection to server has been reconnected" or "that page is not available."

The arrangement is similar to how Chinese users have long been able to access Google's main search page, the uncensored google.com: The Chinese government allows access to some result pages and blocks pages it does not want its users to see.

"We want as many people in the world as possible to have access to our services, including users in mainland China, yet the Chinese government has been crystal clear throughout our discussions that self-censorship is a non-negotiable legal requirement," the company said in its blog post.

The company said it "very much hopes" that the government of China respects its decision, though it is "well aware" that the Chinese authorities could block access to its services for users within the country's borders.

Shares of Google, which were up as much as 1% before the announcement, fell 0.4% Monday. Chinese rival Baidu (BIDU) fluctuated wildly after Google made its announcement, falling into negative territory before nearly rising back to its daily highs as it closed out the session up 2%

source:http://money.cnn.com/2010/03/22/technology/google_china/index.htm

10January 2011

this is our last day in bandung :'(
the school take us to primarasa bakery to shop for our families and relatives,in this bakery we can find a lot kind of cake from tart to pudding,i brough so many cake for my mom because we like to eat :p
we continue our last day to saung udjo.Saung Angklung Udjo (SAU) is an integrated venue consisting of:venue, bamboo handicraft center and a bamboo instrument. This is exactly what makes the SAU as a center for education and research angklung - Sundanese art and culture.SAU was founded in 1966 by Udjo Ngalagena along with his beloved wife, Uum Sumiati. With a strong will and dedication to preserve and develop traditional Sundanese arts and culture.SAU illustrate the nature and culture in harmony, not surprisingly, SAU become a tourist destination destination Sundanese culture as a world heritage.Located in the eastern Bandung area, SAU is the perfect place to enjoy fresh air and beauty of the bamboo crafts and the music of bamboo instruments.

it's almost time to go home,we went back to jakarta after watch the pemormance in saung udjo.i'm gonna miss bandung so much:'(

09january 2011 part2

woo hoo this is the moment that i'm waiting for FREE TIME :D
finally Bandung the fashion city,we went to rumah mode to have our freetime there.it was very fun and i'm so happy because in rumah mode the product that it sell have not very expensive prize but the brand of the product that is sell have a famous known by all people in Indonesia and in this rumah mode we can buy many kind of clothes from man to women,children to adult,bag to shoes and they have a reflexiology place and also restaurant :) we also spent our free time in the one famous mall in bandung call PVJ this mall is huge with many cafe and resto inside it and this mall also have many cute store to shop,i almost buy all thing in this mall because it's hard to find some cute things that we want in Surabaya,in Bandung i thing the prize is cheaper because some of the product are handmade :p

after this long day we got back to the hotel and rest for the next last day :D

09january 2011 part1

on the day 2 we visiting the KAA museum and we do some interview and project there :) this museum have a great historical story and we can get many information from the local tourguide

after visiting this historical museum we go to pagoda restaurant to have our lunch,this restaurant serve cjinese food and it's very delicious :p,after lunch we have to interview some distro near the restaurant and we do shopping thing too :D the distro have very branded clothes,and it's very cheap for teenager,many distro in Bandung build by young businessmana and women especially the teenagers in Bandung design their own t-shirt and design the logo for their own distro!its so creative :)
we continue to the Geology museum,we have to do so many project there.we have to interview many people there.this museum is the bigest geology museum in asia,and this museum have never rebuilt since the colonial time wow cool right ;p

we continue to the C.59 printing process,this company have a good impact for it own city and also have many good impacts for the teenagers because we can fill our creative by make a t-shirt design and we can also sell it in the branded distro that have a partner work with c.59:)this company have a history too

Beginning with the courage partner Marius Widyarto Wiwied (owner C59) and Maria Goretti (Wife of Wiwied mas), which bought a sewing machine, and two engines obras, money which is the result of selling their wedding on 12 1980 0ktober ago, founded the Company C59 . which then in each such date in C59 commemorate the day Birthdays

C59 own company name comes from the home address, where Mr. Wiwied, and mother of Mary the first time live, namely Caladi No.59, Bandung.

08 January 2011 part 1

in the first day i have to check in at Juanda International Airport at 05.30 a.m and my flight is at 7.20 a.m in the morning.i was so excited because honestly i never weent to Jakarta,i have been to Jakarta but just once and it is when i was baby so i can not remember anything.okay back to the fieldtrip!our flight is Garuda Indonesia and i was seated at 22 A

After we arive at Jakarta's airport we still have to wait our other friends and other teacher that take a second flight so we and the travel group gather together eat breakfast in A&W :D after it we devide into 8 groups and 3 bus,the travel that guide us from the day 1until 3 are Aero Trans travel

GMF AeroAsia is an international company that employs 2,500 employees based in Jakarta,indonesia it service airplanes of many types and is the largest aircraft maintenance facility in Asia.

we do some interview and we look into the new production of this airplanes,we do our first project there they are the general project(report) we alternately do the host and the person who explain what is all about the GMF:)

fieldtrip programs

My school is having a fieldtrip program,the school is going to go to Jakarta and Bandung for visiting some place and also giving us some work to do.I have do 6 projects they are general project(report),english project,geography project,sociology project and art project.We have t5o do this project with the basic from the rubric that our teacher gave.


 The day before the fieldtrip me and my friends are decide to have a sleepover at someone house so in the morning we can together went to the juanda international airport.after we make a deal with each other,we decide to have the sleepover at novia's house her house is near my house and she can also ask her driver to come to work in the early morning for taking us to the airport.That night we have so much fun and we have a blast too because in the 8 of january there also Felicia Gomesz birthday.so that night we have already prepare the birthday surprise for her :)

Welcome to my blog fellas:D

hi peeps,my name Cynthia Handranatan but you can call me ch or ceha or whatever you like as it cool to be heard and acceptable :) now i'm study @Cita Hati Senior High School,now i'm in grade 10 PreIB!

i have so many hobbies to share they are drawing,dancing,telling story(talkative) funny story,watching movie,doing sport,and last Listening to Music(with a high volume so don't disturb me when i listen to it LOL just joking peeps :):D i also have a dream and future job,i want to be architect and an interior designer +graphic designer :D wish me luck and pray for me ok !and i juust want to see welcome to my blog !