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Top 10 Most Powerful SuperComputers in The World!

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1: The new top system, Fugaku, turned in a High-Performance Linpack (HPL) result of 415.5 petaflops, besting the now second-place Summit system by a factor of 2.8x.  Fugaku is powered by Fujitsu’s 48-core A64FX SoC, becoming the first number one system on the list to be powered by ARM processors. In single or further reduced precision, which is often used in machine learning and AI applications, Fugaku’s peak performance is over 1,000 petaflops * (1 exaflop *). The new system is installed at RIKEN Center for Computational Science (R-CCS) in Kobe, Japan. 2: Number two on the list is Summit, an IBM-built supercomputer that delivers 148.8 petaflops * on HPL. The system has 4,356 nodes, each equipped with two 22-core Power9 CPUs, and six NVIDIA Tesla V100 GPUs. The nodes are connected with a Mellanox dual-rail EDR InfiniBand network. Summit is running at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Tennessee and remains the fastest supercomputer in the US. 3: At number three is Sierra, a system
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Chess Champion loses a game to Computer!

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This blog is going to be a short one, but an interesting one. On February 10, 1996, after three hours, world chess champion Garry Kasparov loses the first game of a six-game match against Deep Blue, an IBM computer capable of evaluating 200 million moves per second. Man was ultimately victorious over the machine, however, as Kasparov bested Deep Blue in the match with three wins and two ties and took home the $400,000 prize. An estimated 6 million people worldwide followed the action on the Internet. Kasparov had previously defeated Deep Thought, the prototype for Deep Blue developed by IBM researchers in 1989, but he and other chess grandmasters had, on occasion, lost to computers in games that lasted an hour or less. The February 1996 contest was significant in that it represented the first time a human and a computer had duked it out in regulation, six-game match, in which each player had two hours to make 40 moves, two hours to finish the next 20 moves and then another 60 minu
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9 Hotels That Have Robot Employees. How Fast The World Has Progressed...

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Ever thought about having a robot receptionist at a hotel? Well, here are 9 hotels that have "employed" robots as receptionists. 1) Henn-na Hotel, Japan Japan has been at the forefront of the hotel robot trend with the  Henn-na Hotel  chain taking the lead. Henn-na Hotels’ nondescript exteriors belie the fantastical elements within. At the world’s first all-robot (well, mostly robot) hotel chain, dinosaur robots check you in, a robot porter delivers your bags to your room, and an in-room tabletop robot functions as an Amazon Alexa device. Forgot your room key? Facial recognition technology renders it obsolete. Depending on the hotel, there are also fish robots in a bowl, a robot recycling bin, robot vacuums (all Tokyo locations), and even an entire robotic orchestra in the lobby of the Nagasaki locale. Meanwhile, expect a Henn-na Hotel boomlet soon, starting with two new additions in Osaka, plus Kyoto’s first, all by early 2019. 2) Yotel, Worldwide Th
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Waterproofing explained

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The latest, greatest phones can now survive a dip in the pool. But how manufacturers create and define "water resistance" may surprise you. Plop . That's the sound of your phone impacting a pot of tomato sauce. Or a swimming pool. Or -- God forbid -- a toilet bowl. Normally, you're screwed. Unless you're very, very lucky (and have some silica gel packets handy), your phone's delicate circuits are toast. But if you've got a water-resistant phone like the new iPhone 7, Galaxy S7, or Sony Xperia XZ, things could be way different. Just rinse off that tomato sauce -- with more water -- and you're back in business. How water resistance works iFixit teardown engineer Scott H avard asks us to picture an egg: a perfect, unbroken shell. There's no place for water to get in. Now replace that egg with a plastic Easter egg, and you begin to see the difficulty. That's a lot of holes to protect. "If you have an Easter egg that
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Cloud Computing: Everything You Need To Know About Cloud Computing

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What is cloud computing? Everything you need to know now Cloud computing has become the ideal way to deliver enterprise applications—and the preferred solution for companies extending their infrastructure or launching new innovations Cloud computing has two meanings. The most common refers to running workloads remotely over the internet in a commercial provider’s data center, also known as the “public cloud” model. Popular public cloud offerings—such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Salesforce’s CRM system, and Microsoft Azure—all exemplify this familiar notion of cloud computing. Today, most businesses take a multi-cloud approach, which simply means they use more than one public cloud service. The second meaning of cloud computing describes how it works: a virtualized pool of resources, from raw, compute power to application functionality, available on demand. When customers procure cloud services, the provider fulfills those requests using advanced automation rather than m
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