11-02-2013, 11:48 AM
Supercomputer NEC SX-9
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INTRODUCTION
vibrations to neutralize incoming seismic waves from an earthquake.
"Our method may have application to water waves, sound and radar," Milton said. "It would be wonderful if you could cloak buildings against earthquakes. That's on the borderline of what's possible."
One disadvantage of the new method "is that it appears you must know in advance everything about the incoming wave," Milton said. That might require placement of numerous sensors to detect incoming seismic waves or tsunamis.
Milton also said the technology is unlikely to lead to the kind of cloaking that can make the Romulan ships of "Star Trek" disappear.
"The cloaking device would have to generate fields that have very small wavelengths," Milton said. "It is very difficult to build antennas the size of light waves. We're so far from cloaking real-sized objects to visible light that it's incredible."
Though cloaking from light "is probably impossible, it's a fascinating subject, and there is beautiful mathematics behind it," Milton said. "The whole area has exploded. So even if it's not going to result in a 'Harry Potter' cloak, it will have spinoffs in other directions," not only in protecting objects from waves of various sorts, but "for building new types of antennas, being able to see things on a molecular scale. It's sort of a renaissance in classical science, with new ideas popping up all the time."
The threat that unsuspecting people will have to flee for their lives against a sudden flood wave, at least significantly reduced. In Czech meteorology to predict the weather, comes a big change. Merit would be to have a brand new supercomputer NEC SX-9, which in these days run a Hydrometeorology Institute experts.
“It’s as if the naked eye watching valley without the possibility to appreciate the details of beauty. And then give you a powerful telescope, and you suddenly see everything perfectly, “explains the difference in the quality of weather forecasts Deputy Director of Hydrometeorological Institute Radim Tolasz. He would, moreover, was not happen or that meteorologists forecast the next day’s heavy snowfall, but instead of flakes will rain.
Supercomputer at 70 million with a capacity of over 100 conventional home computer will do 1.6 trillion operations per second. The satellite data and ground meteorological stations then with great accuracy can determine where and when in the next few hours, there is a natural disaster.
For example, in June last year were literally amazed at the people in dispatching Meteorological Institute: predicting persistent rains in the Moravian region, then the computer was not able to distinguish, that’s the biggest water hell breaks out on a few square miles to Novojičínsko. “Something similar could not happen to us now. Today we have seen the approaching disaster,” says Tolasz.
Supercomputer probably deserves further – inconspicuous – change: jokes will decline to address meteorologists who forecast of “once again dress slashed.
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INTRODUCTION
vibrations to neutralize incoming seismic waves from an earthquake.
"Our method may have application to water waves, sound and radar," Milton said. "It would be wonderful if you could cloak buildings against earthquakes. That's on the borderline of what's possible."
One disadvantage of the new method "is that it appears you must know in advance everything about the incoming wave," Milton said. That might require placement of numerous sensors to detect incoming seismic waves or tsunamis.
Milton also said the technology is unlikely to lead to the kind of cloaking that can make the Romulan ships of "Star Trek" disappear.
"The cloaking device would have to generate fields that have very small wavelengths," Milton said. "It is very difficult to build antennas the size of light waves. We're so far from cloaking real-sized objects to visible light that it's incredible."
Though cloaking from light "is probably impossible, it's a fascinating subject, and there is beautiful mathematics behind it," Milton said. "The whole area has exploded. So even if it's not going to result in a 'Harry Potter' cloak, it will have spinoffs in other directions," not only in protecting objects from waves of various sorts, but "for building new types of antennas, being able to see things on a molecular scale. It's sort of a renaissance in classical science, with new ideas popping up all the time."
The threat that unsuspecting people will have to flee for their lives against a sudden flood wave, at least significantly reduced. In Czech meteorology to predict the weather, comes a big change. Merit would be to have a brand new supercomputer NEC SX-9, which in these days run a Hydrometeorology Institute experts.
“It’s as if the naked eye watching valley without the possibility to appreciate the details of beauty. And then give you a powerful telescope, and you suddenly see everything perfectly, “explains the difference in the quality of weather forecasts Deputy Director of Hydrometeorological Institute Radim Tolasz. He would, moreover, was not happen or that meteorologists forecast the next day’s heavy snowfall, but instead of flakes will rain.
Supercomputer at 70 million with a capacity of over 100 conventional home computer will do 1.6 trillion operations per second. The satellite data and ground meteorological stations then with great accuracy can determine where and when in the next few hours, there is a natural disaster.
For example, in June last year were literally amazed at the people in dispatching Meteorological Institute: predicting persistent rains in the Moravian region, then the computer was not able to distinguish, that’s the biggest water hell breaks out on a few square miles to Novojičínsko. “Something similar could not happen to us now. Today we have seen the approaching disaster,” says Tolasz.
Supercomputer probably deserves further – inconspicuous – change: jokes will decline to address meteorologists who forecast of “once again dress slashed.