As announced on 13 November 2009, the Cray XT5 supercomputer known as Jaguar, knocked out the previous world number 1, IBM’s “Roadrunner”. This amazingly powerful supercomputer, built only this year boasts amazing speeds and processing power. The Jaguar’s theoretical processing peak is said to be 2.3 petaflops per second (that’s 2.3 quadrillion calculations per second!)
Archive | December, 2009
Wireless electricity has arrived!
Yup, you read right. Wireless electricity has arrived. I’m sure many of you have screamed and yelled due to electrical cords at some point. Hell, I’ve even been blown away across a room a few times in my life due these tangling annoyances. Well there is soon to be no need for them!
Nanotechnology helps create bendable, ultra-lightweight batteries
Nanotechnology advances have already amazed the world but it’s only the beginning. The latest to come out of the nanotech industry are ultra-lightweight, bendable batteries and superconductors.
Stopping SQL Injections
SQL injection is a code injection technique that exploits a security vulnerability occurring in the database layer of an application. The vulnerability is present when user input is either incorrectly filtered for string literal escape characters embedded in SQL statements or user input is not strongly typed and thereby unexpectedly executed.
What comes after a Yottabyte?
What comes after 1 Yottabyte? Well, there have been some proposals put forward for the following, and apparently a decision should have been made this year in order to finalize these terms:
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