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Submission + - Build your own super computer using Ubuntu 10.04. (petur.eu)

Submitted by on Monday June 14, 2010 @02:01PM

An anonymous reader writes: According to a whitepaper posted by Pétur Ingi Egilsson on his blog petur.eu, it is possible to set up one's own super computer cluster by using Ubuntu with MPICH2. Petur, in his blog post, has said that the paper is targeted at the average user and hence has been kept simple and plain.

Submission + - Humans too simple to understand universe (edmontonsun.com) 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 14, 2010 @01:57PM

An anonymous reader writes: A top British scientist says we may never know all the secrets of the universe because, quite simply, we're just not smart enough.

"Just as Einstein's ideas would baffle a chimpanzee," said President of the Royal Society Lord Martin Rees, gaining a full understanding of how the universe works might not be possible "simply because they're beyond human brains."

Submission + - Mars may have been 1/3 ocean? (networkworld.com)

Submitted by coondoggie on Monday June 14, 2010 @01:57PM

coondoggie writes: It’s possible that a huge ocean covered one-third of the surface of Mars some 3.5 billion years ago, a finding likely to reignite an old argument about that amount of water on the red planet, according to a new report. The study by the University of Colorado at Boulder is the first to integrate multiple data sets of river deltas, valley networks and topography from a cadre of NASA and European Space Agency orbiting missions of Mars dating back to 2001, the researchers claim.

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