The new System called the z10, with a starting price at about $1 million, comes as IBM focuses on lowering the price tag for running its storied line of data-crunching workhorses. The z10’s capacity is equivalent to 1,500 servers based on the popular x86 design, IBM says, though it has 85 percent lower energy costs and takes up 85 percent less space than the batch of x86 servers. The new machines also boast more processing horsepower, using 64 processors compared to the 54 processors used in its predecessor the z9..
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Archive for February, 2008
IBM releases new Mainframe…
Supernovas…
A supernova is a stellar explosion that creates an extremely luminous object. A supernova causes a burst of radiation that may briefly outshine its entire host galaxy before fading from view over several weeks or months. During this short interval, a supernova can radiate as much energy as the Sun would emit over 10 billion years. The explosion expels much or all of a star’s material at a velocity of up to a tenth the speed of light..
Article Link: www.wikipedia.org
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Blue Planet: Underwater Lake…
This is part of the BBC series Blue Planet, described as the first ever comprehensive series on the natural history of the world’s oceans, each of the eight 50-minute episodes examines a different aspect of marine life. The underwater photography included creatures and behaviour that had previously never been filmed..
Article Link: www.wikipedia.org
Video Link: www.youtube.com
Paddle-wing Flight…
Lim Kah Bin and Hu Yu at the National University of Singapore have built a small cyclogyro that hovers and turns on the end of a tether. The small robotic aircraft powered by rotating paddle-wheel wings could yet rule the skies, if renewed interest in an antique design bears fruit..
Article Link: www.newscientist.com
Video Link: www.youtube.com
Solar Balloons from CoolEarth…
CoolEarth is creating & using balloons made of metalized plastic films, half of the balloon is transparent letting the light in to be concentrated into a small high-efficiency solar panel by the concave interior. Each balloon is 2 meters across and depending on the source, estimates vary from 500 watt to 1 kilowatt. They are supported by cables, leaving the ground below clear and limiting environmental impact. It is reported that CoolEarth is planning to build a solar farm in the 10 megawatt range in the next few years. It would use about 10,000 balloons over 80 acres..
Article Link: www.treehugger.com
Official Website Link: www.coolearthsolar.com
20 Megawatt Solar Farm Opens in Spain…
With an installed peak power capacity of 20 megawatts, world’s largest photovoltaic solar power farm has opened in Spain. This farm surpasses the solar farm at the Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada which is rated at 14 megawatts. The new solar farm consists of 120,000 solar panels and covers 100 hectares (247 acres) in Jumilla, a wine-producing region in southern Spain. The farm’s total annual production will be the equivalent of the energy used by 20,000 homes..
Article Link: www.treehugger.com
Milestones in Space Photography…
Below is the famous “Blue Marble” shot, this is the first photograph in which Earth is in full view. The picture was taken on December 7, 1972, as the Apollo 17 crew left Earth’s orbit for the moon. With the sun at their backs, the crew had a perfectly lit view of the blue planet.
Take a look at the gallery linked to see how far we have come at capturing images in space..
Article Link: www.nationalgeographic.com
Leopard in the Wild…
The species success owes in part to its opportunistic hunting behaviour and its adaptability to a variety of habitats. The leopard consumes virtually any animal it can catch and ranges from rainforest to desert. The amazing thing about this animal is the amount of time it spends in trees..
Article Link: www.wikipedia.org
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PlayPumps…
PlayPumps International’s mission is help improve the lives of children and their families by providing easy access to clean drinking water, enhancing public health, and offering play equipment to millions across Africa. Check out there video below and this map of pumps already installed..
Official Website Link: www.playpumps.org
Video Link: www.youtube.com
The Phoenix Mars Lander…
Its currently in mission phase 3 called Cruise, which means its flying to Mars. Once it arrives the Phoenix’s assignment is to dig through the Martian soil and ice in the arctic region and use its onboard scientific instruments to analyze the samples it retrieves. The Phoenix could be the key to knowing if we can create sustainable life on Mars..
Article Link: http://phoenix.lpl.arizona.edu
Video Link: www.youtube.com
Encyclopedia of Life…
This is an amazing project, it will give everyone access to the worlds knowledge on the 1.8 million species currently known, and provide the ability for people to help grow the information as there are millions more unknown to us. This is going to be the best school resource ever! When will we be able to access it? Scanning and digitization of the biodiversity literature is now underway in London, Boston, and Washington DC. Expect to have actual authenticated species pages available by mid 2008. This site is going to be sooo sweet..
Official Website Link: www.eol.org
Video Link: www.youtube.com
TED: Discovering Life in our World…
As E.O. Wilson accepts his 2007 TED Prize, he makes a plea on behalf of his constituents, the insects and small creatures, to learn more about our biosphere. We know so little about nature, he says, that we’re still discovering tiny organisms indispensable to life; yet we’re still steadily destroying nature. Wilson identifies five grave threats to biodiversity and makes his TED wish: that we will work together on the Encyclopedia of Life, a web-based compendium of data from scientists and amateurs on every aspect of the biosphere. Playtime 22:35min..
Official Website Link: www.ted.com
Video Link: www.ted.com/talks/view/id/83
Mitsubishi i MiEV Electric Car…
The latest version has a new lithium-ion battery, a more efficient electric motor (10% lighter), a new inverter (30% smaller) and tires that rotate with less resistance. The range has been boosted to 160 km (99 miles) with the 16 kWh battery, which is 23% better than before.
Currently in its testing phase, Mitsubishi plans to sell the commercial version in 2010 for less than ¥2 million (US$17,000)..
Article Link: www.treehugger.com
Man vs Wild…
This is a survival television series hosted by Bear Grylls, on the Discovery Channel. In the show, Grylls both demonstrates and narrates techniques for wilderness survival in regions around the globe, from ice fields, mountain ranges, swamps and deserts. The general format of each episode is that Grylls is dropped into the region simulating a stranded explorer/tourist. The episode documents his efforts to survive and find a way back to civilization, usually requiring an overnight shelter of some kind. Bear also tells about successful and failed survivals in the particular area he is in. Bear Grylls is my hero..
Article Link: www.wikipedia.org
Video Link: www.youtube.com
RSS in Plain English…
I love my RSS reader! I use Google Reader everyday to get the latest information from websites around the world, its changed the way we use the web, allowing us to get information faster. But I know this is new and people are still unsure what RSS is, so I will let the people from Common Craft explain it in one of there awesome videos..
RSS Reader: www.google.com/reader
Video Link: www.youtube.com
Black Holes… Monsters in Space…
A black hole is a region of space in which the gravitational field is so powerful that nothing can escape after having fallen past its event horizon. The name comes from the fact that even light is unable to escape, rendering the interior invisible. However, black holes can be detected if they interact with matter outside the event horizon, for example by drawing in gas from an orbiting star. The gas spirals inward, heating up to very high temperatures and emitting large amounts of radiation in the process..
Article Link: www.wikipedia.org
Video Link: www.youtube.com
Facts About Rainforests…
Do you know how many tropical rainforest plants have been identified as having anti-cancer properties? Or how many continents around the world contain rainforests? And just how quickly the world’s rainforests are disappearing?
Find out the answers to these questions and more as you check out these interesting rainforest facts..
Article Link: www.nature.org/rainforests
Hanging With the Sloth…
There are currently two types of sloths alive in our world, the two-toed and the three-toed sloth. They may eat insects, small lizards and carrion, but their diet consists mostly of buds, tender shoots, and leaves. Until geologically recent times, there were also large ground sloths such as the legendary massive Megatherium..
Article Link: www.wikipedia.org
Video Link: www.youtube.com
Worlds Largest Wind Turbine…
This is an awesome monster, built by Enercon, its called the E-126 which has a 126m diameter wind turbine. It has the power to create seven megawatts of electricity which is enough power to fuel more than 5,000 European homes. Its being built in Emden, Germany..
Article Link: www.ecogeek.org
Documentary: An Inconvenient Truth…
If we do not fix this major global warming issue, humanity could/is seeing epic destruction involving extreme weather, floods, droughts, epidemics and killer heat waves beyond anything we have ever experienced. This is a must see for everyone in our world! As this is a problem that affects us all. Lets hope they start showing this in schools so our children know the very real problem our world is in. I have linked the official website and the trailer video, enjoy..
Official Website Link: www.climatecrisis.net
Video Link: www.youtube.com
NanoAntenna Solar…
Researchers at Idaho National Laboratory, with partners at Microcontinuum Inc. and Patrick Pinhero of the University of Missouri, are developing a way to collect energy from the sun with a technology that could potentially cost pennies a yard, be imprinted on flexible materials and still draw energy after the sun has set..
Article Link: www.inl.gov
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