This is a fascinating compendium of well known logo designs. Several logos vary widely from their inception. Shaped by prevailing design trends, business mergers, and war.

What changes will be the result of the current business climate?

(See also: Blogspot: Evolution of Logos)

g-speak overview 1828121108 from john underkoffler on Vimeo.

“Gestural i/o, recombinant networking, real-world pixels” and a stunning immersive interface. You may have seen the film Minority Report and even if you didn’t you can appreciate the power of such an interface.

Big images and direct manipulation.

(See also: Oblong Industries)

Features of the Silicon Graphics Molecule concept include:

• High concurrency with 20,000 threads of execution — 40 times more than a single rack x86 cluster system
  
• High throughput with 15TB/sec of memory bandwidth per rack — over 20 times faster than a single rack x86 cluster system
  
• Greater balance with up to three times the memory bandwidth/OPS compared to current x86 CPUs
  
• High performance with approximately 3.5 times the computational performance per rack
  
• Greener with low-watt consumer CPUs and low-power memory that deliver 7 times better memory bandwidth/watt
  
• Innovative Silicon Graphics Kelvin cooling technology, which enables denser packaging by stabilizing thermal operations in densely configured solutions
  
• Operating environment flexibility, capable of running industry-standard Linux® implementations, with Microsoft® Windows® variants on some configurations
  

Classic problems appear to be solved. Speeds and feeds, heat and power. Not sure how they solve memory bandwidth bottlenecks at this density. Likely a NUMA (CC-NUMA?) architecture, but that would likely force memory down to the already improbably crowded processing modules. Cooling will be critical in a system such as this. Silicon Graphics® Kelvin™ cooling technology professes to solve this problem.

Granted, this is a prototype and may never be built for sale. It may never be built at all. I remain skeptical. I wish I were at SuperComputing 08 in Austin, TX this week to see it up close. If you are, please leave a comment.

(See also: SGI: a Glimpse of the Future)
(See also: Wired: SGI Creates 10,000-core Concept Computer)

Search term aggregation reveals considerable information about the region of origin, in this case flu trends, two weeks faster than traditional systems.

Flu trends seem a bit innocuous on the Orwell scale until you contemplate the other opportunities provided by this data stream.

(See also: Google.org: Flu Trends)

Recent expansion has doubled performance of the Jaguar computer at ORNL to 119 teraflops of peak performance (119 trillion mathematical calculations per second). It is now the most powerful open scientific computing system in the world.

Doubling the size of the system involved adding involving 124 cabinets. Jaguar uses over 45,000 of the latest quad-core Opteron processors from AMD and features 362 terabytes of memory and a 10-petabyte file system. The system has a rating of 119 teraflops of peak performance (a teraflop is 10¹²).

When I worked at Cray, the metric was simple multiples of sustained gigaflops. A gigaflop is one billion (10⁹) floating-point operations per second.

The upgraded Jaguar will undergo rigorous acceptance testing through December before transitioning to production in early 2009.

(See also: ORNL: Cray supercomputer doubles performance)
(See also: DOE’s ORNL supercomputer now world’s fastest for open science)