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1. Johns Hopkins to build the machine data analysis super May 30, 2011 Apart from the insatiable thirst of the community for supercomputers FLOPS(floating point operations per second), the Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins University is the configuration his new machine to reach the maximum number of IOPS(disk I / O per second) instead. The new design will be better suited to the type of data-mining based on scientific workloads handled by todays supercomputers, argued Alexander Szalay, a computer scientist astrophysicist at the Institute and Johns Hopkins for data-intensive engineering and sciences, who heads the project [also on InfoWorld:. IBM warns aga... (read more) Author: ey mak

2. Quick Guide: Star Gazing Terms and Definitions December 05, 2010 Investing in a pair of binoculars or an astronomical telescope is certainly along the right path for a successful life of star gazing. The UK’s winter sky is stunning to behold during every season, but during long winter night she’s really shows-off! Here are a few terms and definitions to get the avid new stargazer well on their way to being the astrophysicist their new astronomical telescope wishes them to be! Asteroids – One of the many thousands of lumps of rock orbiting the sun between Mars and Jupiter. Not all asteroids remain in this area – some pass very close to earth. ... (read more) Author: Marry Reid

3. Finding Out How The Human Race Can Survive With These Top Ten Ideas June 22, 2010 The brilliant British astrophysicist, Steven Hawking, has invited people to submit suggestions to his Website via Yahoo on how the human race might last another hundred years. Given that the dinosaurs lasted about 150 million years and we're worried about making it - given our 100,000-year-or-so history - to a mere 100,100, we decided we must, after all, be even less perspicacious about what it takes to survive than the lofty dinos. To moderate any possible abbreviation of our stay, we thought we'd present ten ideas that we call "Look, Dummy." Since one of the delights of writing thi... (read more) Author: Buddy Mills

4. Scientists Describe Formation of First Stars July 31, 2008 An international team of scientists has devised a computer model detailing how the first stars were born. VOA's Jessica Berman reports the researchers say knowing how stars were created is crucial to understanding planets and other space objects.Galaxy cluster Japanese and U.S. space scientists say the first stars, which they call protostars, were made from small grains of dust and gases unleashed by the Big Bang, the massive explosion they say created the universe 13 billion years ago.  In a study published in this week's journal Science, Japanese astrophysicist Naoki Yoshida and collea... (read more)

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