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Hamfests and EventsSunday, January 13 - Bethpage, NY Ham Radio University 2008. Forums, displays Live operating events, ARRL NYC/LI Convention. Keynote: Gordon West, WB6NOA Starts 9 AM, Briarcliff College, 1055 Stewart Ave. http://www.hamradiouniversity.org Diane Ortiz, K2DO, e-mail: K2DO@arrl.netSunday, January 27 - Odenton, MD MMARC Post-Holiday Hamfest, 8 AM till Noon, Odenton Vol FD Hall, 1425 Annapolis Rd (Rte 175), Odenton. (146.205/146.805) N3SEO 410-467-3335; n3seo@aol.com
Saturday, February 2: Richmond Frostfest
Richmond Raceway Complex, 600 East
Laburnum Ave. 146.88/R (PL 74.4), Lee Ann
Horton, W4QCO, http://www.frostfest.com
e-mail: chair@frostfest.com
Sunday, February 24: Annandale, VA Vienna Wireless Society's Winterfest, at Northern VA. Community College (NOVA) 8333 Little River Turnpike. 146.91/R. Jim, W4TJP, 703-392-0150. ICOM D-Star digital radio demonstration! http://www.viennawireless.org Sat./Sun, March 29-30 - Timonium, MD Greater Baltimore Hamboree and Computerfest MD State Fairgrounds, 2200 York Rd. 146.67/R, 449.625/R ( PL 107.2) Doug Wittich, N3VEJ 443-590-1145 Info2008@gbhc.org |
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IBM and Intel improved their standings Monday in the newest tally of the world’s fastest 500 computers, a closely watched measure of progress in the industry. The list, published twice a year by academic researchers, once again was topped by an IBM supercomputer in the Lawrence Livermore national nuclear lab. The BlueGene/L system, as it is known, was recently upgraded and showed the ability to perform at 478 teraflops — 478 trillion calculations per second. That’s tens of thousands of times faster than your average desktop PC today. The No. 2 performer was an IBM supercomputer in a German research center that came in at 167 teraflops. No. 3 was a 127-teraflop system made by Silicon Graphics for the New Mexico Computing Applications Center. For the first time, India placed a machine in the top 10: a 118-teraflop Hewlett-Packard system in a research center run by Tata Sons Ltd. in Pune, India. IBM accounted for 46% of the computers on the list, while HP had 33%. That reversed the standing on the last list, in June, when HP became the leading manufacturer in the top 500. Such turnover is common given the mind-boggling rate of improvement in high-performance computing. The system that ranked 500th in the world on the new list would have been good enough for No. 255 just six months earlier. Intel chips are the processors in 64% of the machines on the list, the largest share that the Santa Clara, Calif.-based company has ever had. Its main rival, Advanced Micro Devices, showed up in 16% of the top 500, down from 21% six months ago.
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