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Comment Re:Bedbugs in apartments (Score 1) 69

Bed bugs can supposedly survive freezing temperatures, so not so sure I'd recommend people putting their things in the freezer.

-31C kills them all within 10h, including eggs
-28C kills them all within 10h, except freshly laid (48h) eggs
-20C kills them all within 48h, including eggs
-16C kills them all within 80h, including eggs

Comment Re:Turing complete (Score 1) 60

So since all "computers" are Turing complete, they can all produce the same results - it's just a matter of processing time and having enough memory to hold the needed data. So this computer can't actually accomplish anything more than before. It can just fulfill a greater workload. Or am I mistaken?

That depends. If you take into account the projected age of the universe, you might find that doing the same calculations using giant fields of wooden rods, while equivalent, may not be practical.

So "this computer can't actually accomplish anything more than before" is as true as saying a huge truck is not an accomplishment in transport, because you could equally well divide your cargo into tiny pieces that can be carried atop snails and then reassembled when they reach the destination.

Comment Re:What's Next? (Score 1) 60

Before we get to zettascale computing we need to improve resilience. When you are running MPI jobs with 50000 CPU cores you need to really start tolerating single-node failures gracefully. Aborting the job is no longer a desirable option and checkpointing can be exceedingly costly for many workloads.

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