Sunday 31 August 2014

Universe-Rebooted

FYI ONLY
The COSMOS facility, which is located in the Stephen Hawking Centre for Theoretical Cosmology (CTC) at the University, is dedicated to research in cosmology, astrophysics and particle physics. It was switched on in 2012.
To date, the facility has been used to simulate the dynamics of the early Universe and for pipelines analysing the statistics of Planck satellite maps of the cosmic microwave sky. The COSMOS supercomputer was the first very large (over 10 terabyte) single-image shared-memory system to incorporate Intel Xeon Phi coprocessors, which are behind the most power-efficient computers in the world.
Intel Parallel Computing Centres (IPCC) are universities, institutions, and labs that are leaders in their field. The centres are focusing on modernising applications to increase parallelism and scalability through optimisations that leverage cores, caches, threads, and vector capabilities of microprocessors and coprocessors.
As an IPCC, the COSMOS research facility will receive enhanced Intel support from its applications and engineering teams, as well as early access to future Intel Xeon Phi and other Intel products aimed at high-performance computing. IPCC status will allow COSMOS to better focus on delivering computing advances to the scientific community it serves and also highlight the efforts Intel has put into advancing high-performance computing

Universe was just rebooted a moment ago due to the long-standing issue with NFS.
Fortunately this ought to be the last time: all the other machines already have what seems to be a final fix for the issue and after this reboot universe will have it, too. The fix requires a reboot and since universe has been running smoothly, we have just been waiting for a reason to reboot universe. Now we have it, so now we fix it.
We are sorry for the inconvenience caused.
Best regards,
COSMOS Management
UPDATE@2014-05-14, 16:00:49 BST: Universe is back up.

http://www.cosmos.damtp.cam.ac.uk/system-status/universe-rebooted
When operating at peak performance, the COSMOS Supercomputer can perform 38.6 trillion calculations per second (TFLOPS), and is based on SGI UV2000 systems with 1856 cores of Intel Xeon processors E5-2600, 14.8 TB RAM and 31 Intel® Xeon PhiTM coprocessors.

 When operating at peak performance, the COSMOS Supercomputer can perform 38.6 trillion calculations per second (TFLOPS), and is based on SGI UV2000 systems with 1856 cores of Intel Xeon processors E5-2600, 14.8 TB RAM and 31 Intel® Xeon PhiTM coprocessors.

Wednesday 27 August 2014

Save The Arctic Here

Sign up at the link below to do your little part against Arctic destruction.
http://www.savethearctic.org/Help out by following here

Tuesday 26 August 2014

NATURE'S HERO

Stay young and in shape.Nature has a way of moving you out into it's nakedness.
Take a walk in the forest where it's wild and beautiful.
Stop and sit on a rock or log and think about life for 10 minutes.
It's a therapy a lot of old minds are keeping up with.
Is it the quiet and peaceful feeling within us that relaxes when the birds sing.
Begin to feel the oneness with life and its beginings of  One.
 

How Facebook Makes Us Unhappy

No one joins Facebook to be sad and lonely. But a new study from the University of Michigan psychologist Ethan Kross argues that that’s exactly how it makes us feel. Over two weeks, Kross and his colleagues sent text messages to eighty-two Ann Arbor residents five times per day. The researchers wanted to know a few things: how their subjects felt overall, how worried and lonely they were, how much they had used Facebook, and how often they had had direct interaction with others since the previous text message. Kross found that the more people used Facebook in the time between the two texts, the less happy they felt—and the more their overall satisfaction declined from the beginning of the study until its end. The data, he argues, shows that Facebook was making them unhappy.
 Lonelier people weren’t inherently more likely to go online, either; a recent review of some seventy-five studies concluded that “users of Facebook do not differ in most personality traits from nonusers of Facebook.” (Nathan Heller wrote about loneliness in the magazine last year.) But, somehow, the Internet seemed to make them feel more alienated. A 2010 analysis of forty studies also confirmed the trend: Internet use had a small, significant detrimental effect on overall well-being. One experiment concluded that Facebook could even cause problems in relationships, by increasing feelings of jealousy.
 Another group of researchers has suggested that envy, too, increases with Facebook use: the more time people spent browsing the site, as opposed to actively creating content and engaging with it, the more envious they felt. The effect, suggested Hanna Krasnova and her colleagues, was a result of the well-known social-psychology phenomenon of social comparison. It was further exacerbated by a general similarity of people’s social networks to themselves: because the point of comparison is like-minded peers, learning about the achievements of others hits even harder. The psychologist Beth Anderson and her colleagues argue, in a recent review of Facebook’s effects, that using the network can quickly become addictive, which comes with a nagging sense of negativity that can lead to resentment of the network for some of the same reasons we joined it to begin with. We want to learn about other people and have others learn about us—but through that very learning process we may start to resent both others’ lives and the image of ourselves that we feel we need to continuously maintain. “It may be that the same thing people find attractive is what they ultimately find repelling,” said the psychologist Samuel Gosling, whose research focusses on social-media use and the motivations behind social networking and sharing.
 http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/how-facebook-makes-us-unhappy

In ongoing research, the psychologist Timothy Wilson has learned, as he put it to me, that college students start going “crazy” after just a few minutes in a room without their phones or a computer. “One would think we could spend the time mentally entertaining ourselves,” he said. “But we can’t. We’ve forgotten how.” Whenever we have downtime, the Internet is an enticing, quick solution that immediately fills the gap. We get bored, look at Facebook or Twitter, and become more bored. Getting rid of Facebook wouldn’t change the fact that our attention is, more and more frequently, forgetting the path to proper, fulfilling engagement. And in that sense, Facebook isn’t the problem. It’s the symptom.

 

Wednesday 20 August 2014

Dissolving The Ego

I'm hoping to be able to learn from David.I've heard less about the famed ego that received this bad reputation, than those who pollute our water.

Hope is within thyself when you need it most.

Behold false delusion from conglomerates that process better performance like sedimentary rock.

Pain is temporary and only hangs on a short while. If i stop Being it will last forever.

Monday 18 August 2014

Good Samaritan Hospital


Heavy rains brings unexpected flood into hospital in Nebraska,USA
Check out this video. http://once.unicornmedia.com/now/od/auto/f21d8e33-8e2f-460c-965d-e4939d60d203/487e1da2-3daa-425b-b91a-06df14c69d93/f2abe225-63ee-4f19-95e1-dc2e2b185af7/content.once

Sunday 17 August 2014

Paper is Obsolete

Are you honestly considering the whole reality of paper on your Android only.
Reconsider after watching this embedded link and you may change your feelings towards
paper usage.Nevertheless standforforests

http://www.youtube.com/embed/V_gOZDWQj3Q?rel=0

City Pulse

The heart of the city pulses on life
Its underbelly spoiling with division
Split into richer and poorer
A nasty corporation slicing its way thru mans veins
Greed without honour
Restore mankind or be gone
R.I.P.

Thursday 7 August 2014

INTERNET CRACKED

Russian Gang hacks 1.2 billion usernames and passwords. http://www.cnn.com/2014/08/06/opinion/rushkoff-russia-hacking/

6 B.S. Stories That Fooled Everyone on Facebook (8/5/14) http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CrackedRSS/~3/MjuYYyO0rxU/

That bounty of 1.2 billion usernames and passwords likely isn't even the prize they're after; it's merely the platform from which they're going after something else. Until we members of a networked society learn to work together, we will continue to be used by those who put us together for themselves.

Tuesday 5 August 2014

AniMann Frac

http://ronrulezd00d.tumblr.com/image/93917466594

Journal Nature Climate Change

Recent Walker circulation strengthening and Pacific cooling amplified by Atlantic warming

An unprecedented strengthening of Pacific trade winds since the late 1990s (ref. 1) has caused widespread climate perturbations, including rapid sea-level rise in the western tropical Pacific234,5, strengthening of Indo-Pacific ocean currents67, and an increased uptake of heat in the equatorial Pacific thermocline1. The corresponding intensification of the atmospheric Walker circulation is also associated with sea surface cooling in the eastern Pacific, which has been identified as one of the contributors to the current pause in global surface warming189. In spite of recent progress in determining the climatic impacts of the Pacific trade wind acceleration, the cause of this pronounced trend in atmospheric circulation remains unknown. Here we analyse a series of climate model experiments along with observational data to show that the recent warming trend in Atlantic sea surface temperature and the corresponding trans-basin displacements of the main atmospheric pressure centres were key drivers of the observed Walker circulation intensification, eastern Pacific cooling, North American rainfall trends and western Pacific sea-level rise. Our study suggests that global surface warming has been partly offset by the Pacific climate response to enhanced Atlantic warming since the early 1990s.

http://www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nclimate2330.html

Monday 4 August 2014

Rescued Fawn Video

Now here is a wonderful story of a family rescuing a baby fawn trapped at their home.
Stories like these that get shared are my favourites.
Oh,something manmade that works.
The Maytag repairman

Friday 1 August 2014

INSIGHT PLANET EARTH

Come with me and be Bloggered with Blogger

Neural Entropy

A vision lit entropy tunnelled thru man so enveloped and sighted that it generates mesh within our grasp.
In machine learning and related fields, artificial neural networks (ANNs) are computational models inspired by an animal's central nervous systems.