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2011/08/26

the human genome, Nature, Vol. 409, No. 6822, 15 February 2001

"Artificial Life", The Proceedings, September, 1987, etc.

2011/08/25

[san-tech][03356] 白色LEDで 100Mbpsデータ転送 (100Mbps by white-light LEDs)

Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 14:17:15 +0900
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EUのプロジェクトで白色 LED可視光を利用して 100Mbpsのデータ転送に

成功しました：

"Data are traveling by light"

Research News August 2011

Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology IDMT

http://www.fraunhofer.de/en/press/research-news/2010-2011/20/data-traveling.jsp

"Regular LEDs can be turned into optical WLAN with only a few

additional components thanks to visible light communication

(in short, VLC). The lights are then not just lighting up, they

also transfer data. They send films in HD quality to your iPhone

or laptop, with no loss in quality, quickly and safely."

.....

"... since scientists from the Fraunhofer Institute for

Telecommunications, Heinrich Hertz Institute HHI in Berlin,

Germany, have developed a new transfer technology for video data

within the scope of the OMEGA project of the EU, its

implementation in real life is getting markedly closer. At the

end of May, the scientists were able to present the results of

the project in Rennes, France. They were able to transfer data

at a rate of 100 megabits per second (Mbit/s) without any losses,

using LEDs in the ceiling that light up more than ten square

meters (90 square feet). The receiver can be placed anywhere

within this radius, which is currently the maximum range.

2011/08/23

[san-tech][03354] Gluster Announces Apache Hadoop Storage Compatibility, August 23rd, 2011

Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2011 22:54:10 +0900
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まだ GlusterFS 3.3 beta 2レベルですが、

"Gluster Announces Apache Hadoop Storage Compatibility in Latest

GlusterFS Release"

August 23, 2011

http://www.gluster.com/2011/08/23/gluster-announces-apache-hadoop-storage-compatibility-in-latest-glusterfs-release/

"... today announced the release of GlusterFS 3.3 beta 2 which

includes compatibility for Apache Hadoop. This latest enhancement

to GlusterFS uses the standard file system APIs available in Hadoop

to provide a new storage option for Hadoop deployments. With this

new feature, GlusterFS is the first open source, POSIX-compliant

file and object storage solution that works with Hadoop. Compatible

with existing MapReduce-based applications and with the ability

to co-exist with HDFS, this new functionality opens up data within

Hadoop deployments to any file- or object-based application,

providing a broad new range of options for big data deployments."

2011/08/21

[san-tech][03352] Slide: Titan Summit (Cray XK6, 20PF Peek), Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF), (2011/08/15 - 17)

Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2011 12:27:50 +0900
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こちらも US DOE HPC関連ですが、Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facilityの
次期 HPC: Titan (20PF Peak, Cray XK6, Opteron + GPU)についてのワークショップ
資料が公開されました：

Titan Summit
Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF), August 15 - 17, 2011
http://www.olcf.ornl.gov/event/titan-summit/

"The summit will provide a forum for current and prospective users
to meet with OLCF staff and industry vendors to discuss Titan,
the next-generation leadership-class computational resource, and
a significant step towards exascale computing at the OLCF. Users
are encouraged to present their application plans for scaling
to exascale."