Don't fool yourself: Read this Also, the era of supercomputers is rapidly dwindling with modern day research. For example CERN's LHC data isn't being processed by one supercomputer with multiple cores, no, it's being processed by a grid of computers. With advances in communication technology this is a much more valable option than having one supercomputer do all. It's basically the same way they're doing folding and SETI@Home. Stuff like those 8 PS3's are going to be much more valuable and powerful than a supercomputer. If you shell out the same ammount you'd spend on a superputer, and use it to string up PS3's, you'd probably end up with something very equivalent. -Z
Well... will moving the Earth do? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolaus_Copernicus btw, talking about known people... http://www.usnews.com/articles/news...ption-scandal-be-a-distraction-for-obama.html
A thousand times faster than a regular PC? Hmmmm.. I guess it would still take 36 hours to download "Bimbos in heat Vol. 7" on my 56k modem. Think i'll wait till download times improve... %) But anyways Tesla was one of those guys that could think outside of the box bigtime....He was looking into the sun one day..trying to understand how electricity worked...and then suddenly he did understand.
Let's all get crazeeee with national pride: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Polhem http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leif_Ericson http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ericsson http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johan_Petter_Johansson http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Håkan_Lans http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sven_Gustaf_Wingqvist too tired to go on. Apparently, earlier, swedes were not all lazy, flightsimming, beergargling loosers like me
yeah well, back in the o' days there was a lot more to discover, and it was a lot easier than today (as in money) plus what else can you do hiding in a cave waiting for the polar bear to go away?
To throw some fuel on the fire: Tesla Motors. Though they could've just the same be called the Biot Savart, Gauss or Coulomb motors. -Z
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teoctist_Arăpaşu http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Mutu http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Negreanu http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ana_Cumpanas http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Cretu http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolae_Ceauşescu
Great info. RE: Tesla, the man and the computer. Thanks ronin et al. Any body remember "Beowulf Cluster " ? Also one additional point about Tesla, the man: A significant portion of his papers were taken by the US gov. and are still "missing". Like Mcloud said, he is one of the few men that thought "out of the box". Personally I think they should have named something better that a 'super computer' after him. No points for Alfred Nobel?
well they did name something better than a computer after Tesla I guess you just have to be into electrics to know that
There's a substantial difference between electronics and electrics though. The SI unit Tesla is of little consequence to electronics, to electrics it is however, for example for electrically powered engines. -Z
Depends on how you use those units of electromagnetism. I doubt anyone who works with electric motors will use anything worthy the measure of a single T unit.
What? Your statement could swing either way, claiming you'd need loads of Teslas for a electro engine, or barely one. -Z
I am under the impression that he wanted to say that 1T is A LOT in terms of electric motors. Who cares anyway, both the possibilities are inaccurate (unprecise) enough to be more or less wrong. Electric motors range from tiny (yet everyday use) cellphone vibrator motors to the obvious tram and other heavy machinery propulsion. The tesla (yes, "t"esla, not "T"esla, as in "m"eter, "s"econd, and guess what, "a"mpere) range here is quite broad. Too bad this great mind can't witness his greatest obsession materialize - wireless energy transmission being taken seriously. Honestly I personally consider mister Tesla as one of (if not THE) greatest minds ever alive. One can only wonder what things a person like that could be capable of in todays times with todays technology. It is for me a great shame, that he is not being spoken of at schools, and his place in history books is marginal at best. He deserves a lot more and for one thing I am going to teach my little brother about this great man and the injustice that is being done to him by the educational systems of many countries, including mine, because I'm sure that in his physics and history classes he's going to hear a lot about Marconi, and the only thing about Tesla, will be that it's an SI unit...
Well, our eductation system seems to be a little less biased than yours. They didn't even bother to tell us who the frig Marconi was.
