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www.inhabitat.com

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Green Design Will Save The World | Inhabitat

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Last Edited: silacon, Jan 21

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Major Uk Isp: Video Streaming's "Free Ride" Is Over Ars Technica

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Last Edited: srini, Jun 13

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My Philly Network » Behold! The Google + Twitter Merger Has Begun….

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My Philly Network » What? Google Is On Twitter Now?

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Last Edited: solacetech, Feb 26

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Apple Announces Safari 4 Public Beta | Webware

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Last Edited: newsjunkie, Feb 24

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My Philly Network » Should Bloglog Worry About Twitter?

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Last Edited: solacetech, Feb 19

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My Philly Network » Disqus Goes Big Time, Joins Facebook Connect Tonight!

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Last Edited: solacetech, Feb 18

www.physorg.com

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Solar Power Game Changer: 'Near Perfect' Absorption Of Sunlight, From All Angles

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Last Edited: newsjunkie, Feb 17

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My Philly Network » Compete.Com Crunches Jan 2009’s Numbers

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Last Edited: solacetech, Feb 12

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My Philly Network » How To Blog Wow A Class For Bloggers…really?

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Last Edited: solacetech, Feb 09

www.jpl.nasa.gov

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Jpl, Nasa: Multimedia, Videos, Animations, High Definition, Clips

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Last Edited: silacon, Feb 08

www.computerworld.com

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Need A Supercomputer? This Guy Builds Them Himself

Takeaway #1
February 2, 2009 (Network World) Bruce Allen is perhaps the world's best do-it-yourselfer. When he needed a supercomputer to crunch the results of gravitational-wave research, he built one with his colleagues at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Takeaway #2
Since 1998 he's built three more supercomputers, all to observe gravitational waves, theoretically emanate from black holes orbiting each other and from exploding stars

Takeaway #3
A cluster of 1,680 machines with four cores each, is in Hanover, Germany; a 6,720-core processor ranked No. 58 in the world. No. 79 on the current Top500 list," says Allen, director of the Max Planck Institute.
Takeaway #4
He builds his own gets more for his money.

Takeaway #5
Dell or IBM at $2 million budget, comes back with a few CPUs," "If you then go and look at Pricewatch finding what the gear really costs, you find out that if you build something yourself with the same money you'll end up with two or three times the processing power." The problem is that big-name companies have a lot of overhead made up of layers of management and engineering. "They do sell good products, and you don't need to have any particular expertise to buy them," he says. "It's always been my experience that if I do it myself, I get more bang for my buck." For instance, his first supercomputer was built from a Linux cluster of bargain 48 DEC Alpha Servers that had been discontinued, each with a single 300-MHz, 64-bit AXP processor. "So I got a very good deal on them. I think the list price was $6,000, and I bought them after they were end-of-lifed for $800," Allen says. "The switch was a 3Com Superstack 100Mbit/sec. Ethernet switch. I think it was a pair of them, each with 24 ports connected by a matrix cable." The servers were housed in a room slightly larger than a closet, on particle board shelves bought at Home Depot. "It wasn't even racks, because rack-mounted systems would have raised the price significantly," Allen says. The whole thing used about 200 watts of power, and the university's facilities staff had to remove flaps from the air ducts feeding the room so they could dissipate the heat efficiently enough.

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Last Edited: silacon, Feb 06

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My Philly Network » Yaaze.Com, Competition For Linkedin?

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Last Edited: solacetech, Feb 06

www.nytimes.com

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Experiments Bring Internet To Remote African Villages Ny Times.Com

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Last Edited: marknutter, Feb 03

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Kentucky Suit Has Web World In Tizzy

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Last Edited: marknutter, Feb 03

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Cnet News Daily Podcast: Is Google Too Big For The Web's Good? | Cnet News Daily Podcast Cnet News

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Last Edited: marknutter, Feb 03

myphillynetwork.com

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My Philly Network » Rocket On Social Mmo Continues In It’s Quest To Takeover The Net…

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Last Edited: solacetech, Feb 03

www.appleinsider.com

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Adobe, Apple Working Together On Flash For I Phone

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Last Edited: goducks, Feb 01

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Engineering Concept Conduit Home

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Last Edited: silacon, Jan 30

www.nytimes.com

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Worm Infects Millions Of Computers Worldwide Ny Times.Com

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Last Edited: prop4word, Jan 29

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20+ Great Twitter Tools For Firefox

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Last Edited: web2marketing, Jan 29

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تلویزیون وردپرس

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Last Edited: mhmazidi, Jan 29

www.technologyreview.com

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Technology Review: Digging Deeper In Web Search

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Last Edited: silacon, Jan 29

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Dead Athletes' Brains Show Damage From Concussions Cnn.Com

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Last Edited: yeraze, Jan 27

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Trojan Found In Pirated Apple I Work Software

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www.bloomberg.com

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Microsoft Cuts 5000 Jobs

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www.pcworld.com

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Dtv Transition Gains Steam As Qualcomm Pushes Back

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Last Edited: ShaneRempher, Jan 22

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Fanboy.Com » Blog Archive » Social Media “experts” Are The Cancer Of Twitter (And Must Be Stopped)

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Last Edited: marknutter, Jan 21

www.techcrunch.com

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Pierre Omidyar Is Getting His Ginx On (Co Founder Status Confirmed).

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Last Edited: marknutter, Jan 20

www.washingtonpost.com

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Fcc Chairman Martin To Step Down Next Week

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Last Edited: goducks, Jan 16