Sunday, October 31, 2004

NASA - NASA Unveils Its Newest, Most Powerful Supercomputer

NASA - NASA Unveils Its Newest, Most Powerful Supercomputer: "Comprised of an integrated cluster of 20 interconnected SGI® Altix® 512-processor systems, for a total of 10,240 Intel® Itanium® 2 processors, Columbia was built and installed at the NASA Advanced Supercomputing facility at Ames in less than 120 days. "

Sunday, October 24, 2004

35 Years Ago

WWW.KINK.FM is having a contest choosing the most influential muscians of the last 35 years. Of course Bobby is by far the first choice but I'm not sure of #'s 2 & 3.

35 years ago a ship carrying the biggest part of HQ Btry 12th Marines arrived in Okinawa with me on board after spending 9 months in Viet Nam. Told my Vietnamese barber yesterday about my Daughter, Son in Law and grandchildren moving to Romania and she ask " don't they like it here?"