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Comment Re:"This post has since been taken down by Medium" (Score 1) 5

by overheardinpdx on Saturday February 22, 2020 @12:45PM (#59754616) Attached to: Slickwraps Data Breach Exposing Financial and Customer Info

Another customer has posted this mirror of the Medium article by Lynx: http://archive.is/yEIJT I am a customer affected by this breach, yet I have received no email notification of the breach from Slickwraps as they claim.

Submission + - Has the Decades-Old Floating Point Error Problem been Solved? (insidehpc.com) 1

Submitted by overheardinpdx on Wednesday January 17, 2018 @11:26AM

overheardinpdx writes: Has the Decades-Old Floating Point Error Problem been Solved? Today a company called Bounded Floating Point announced a "breakthrough patent in processor design, which allows representation of real numbers accurate to the last digit for the first time in computer history."

"This bounded floating point system is a game changer for the computing industry, particularly for computationally intensive functions such as weather prediction, GPS, and autonomous vehicles," said the inventor, Alan Jorgensen, PhD. “By using this system, it is possible to guarantee that the display of floating point values is accurate to plus or minus one in the last digit.”

Comment Re:Fake news (Score 1) 139

by overheardinpdx on Wednesday January 10, 2018 @01:43PM (#55902563) Attached to: NVIDIA GPUs Weren't Immune To Spectre Security Flaws Either

NVIDIA's own Security Bulletin says that their GPUs are subject to Spectre and Meltdown exploits: https://nvidia.custhelp.com/ap...

Comment Bring explosive phones to Airport? (Score 2) 46

by overheardinpdx on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @03:38PM (#53103187) Attached to: Samsung is Setting Up Note 7 Exchange Booths at Airports Around the World

So passengers should bring their explosive cell phones directly to the airport? I feel safer already.

Comment China will build a 100 Petaflop Supercomputer (Score 1) 239

by overheardinpdx on Saturday January 02, 2016 @02:26PM (#51227501) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Predictions For 2016?

My prediction is that China will build a 100 Petaflop Supercomputer in 2016. This machine will rank #1 on the TOP500 list until 2019.

Comment Plugging my own SCI-FI take on this (Score 1) 234

by overheardinpdx on Wednesday December 31, 2014 @11:15AM (#48705051) Attached to: NSA Says They Have VPNs In a 'Vulcan Death Grip'

I suppose you guys will shred me for this, but I took on this topic in my SCI-FI story, "The Observer Effect" where a scientist attempts to prove the existence of god through a kind of "cat in the box" experiment using a large cluster spun up on AWS. You can imagine that it doesn't end well. http://insidehpc.com/2013/11/o... For my day job, I write tech news at insideHPC. Forgive me for sharing my hobby here, but I think it has something to say about this topic. -Rich

Comment Hurd's Affinity for Sun Fire (Score 2, Funny) 133

by overheardinpdx on Tuesday September 07, 2010 @01:44PM (#33500474) Attached to: Former HP CEO Selected As Oracle Co-President

Hurd went on to describe his affinity for Oracle's current line of hadware products. "Honestly, I had some trouble selling HP's 'Integrity' severs with a straight face," said Hurd. "But when it comes to staffing, I intend on turning 'Sun Fire' into a friggin verb."

Comment Re:1st and second post :-) (Score 1) 160

by overheardinpdx on Monday August 02, 2010 @06:29PM (#33117664) Attached to: Defeating Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle

Sun Microsystems invented the Heisenberg Compensator years ago. I did the announcement video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVPlqPPPRS4

Submission + - Roland Piquepaille Dies (blogspot.com)

Submitted by overheardinpdx on Thursday January 08, 2009 @08:14PM

overheardinpdx writes: I'm sad to report that longtime HPC technology pundit Roland Piquepaille died this past Tuesday. Many of you may know of him through his blog, his writings at ZDNet and Slashdot, and his many years of software visualization work at SGI and Cray Research.

I worked with Roland 20 years ago at Cray, where we both wrote tech stories for the company newsletter. With his focus on how new technologies modify our way of life, Roland was really doing Slashdot-type reporting before there was even a world wide web. You can read his brief ZDNet bio here.

Rest in peace, Roland. You will be missed.

Comment Everything's bigger in Texas (Score 0) 1

by overheardinpdx on Saturday February 23, 2008 @09:00PM (#22531358) Attached to: Half-petaflop supercomputer deployed in Austin

Check out this video of the dedication ceremony of Ranger on February 22, 2008. There's also an a configuration table with some pretty amazing specifications.

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