Nov 5, 1991: @FujitsuHPC announces it's dropping offer to donate a supercomputer to Colorado-based electric utility consortium, after pressure from the US Govt, who accused Fujitsu of trying to illegally gain inroads into US market ( #supercomputing #HPC.

Nov 4, 2002: Canadian researchers use a country-wide virtual supercomputer to complete 3.5 CPU years of work in 1 day. Resources from 18 institutions were used as part of Canadian Internetworked Scientific Supercomputer (CISS) ( #supercomputing #HPC.

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Nov 3, 2016: @chinaorgcn story that China has started building a prototype EXAFLOPS supercomputer. The system is slated to be installed at Nat'l #Supercomputing Center in Jinan. The article also mentions that China has launched 3 exascale projects ( #HPC.

Nov 2, 1998: @ansidotorg approves Myrinet high speed interconnect for use on VMEbus as ANSI/VITA 26-1998 ( #supercomputing #HPC.

RT @WebDesignMuseum: The first Apple logo in 1976.vs. the first Microsoft logo in 1975

RT @MIT_CSAIL: #otd in 1998 @ylecun submitted a paper on “gradient-based” deep learning for document recognition. It took more than a deca….

Nov 1, 1988: @NASA releases a video showing the installation of its new #Cray Y-MP @NASAAmes ( #supercomputing #HPC.

RT @MIT_CSAIL: Why can’t programmers tell the difference between Halloween & Christmas? Because oct 31 = dec 25. #HappyHalloween.

The story won a Hugo Award in 1968. It also was adapted into a video game of the same name published in 1995, with Ellison doing the adaptation and providing the voice for the supercomputer in the game.

Even #HPC can get in on the Halloween action. The short story, "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream," by Harlan Ellison, published in 1967, is about a supercomputer that gains sentience and murders all of humanity except for 5 people, who he intends to torture for eternity.

RT @NCSAatIllinois: We’re saddened by the passing of former NCSA member Nancy St. John. Her groundbreaking work in visualization left a las….

Oct 30, 1988: Interesting @nytimes article "Supercomputer Pictures Solve the Once Insoluble," about how #supercomputing visualizations are enabling more insight for scientists ( #supercomputing #HPC.

RT @todayininfosec: 1969: The first message sent over ARPANET was from Leonard Kleinrock’s UCLA computer, sent by student programmer Charle….

RT @SandiaLabs: This is Sandia: a look back at 75 years of national security service. ➡️ #Sandias75th.

RT @vsoch: Something we are doing terribly wrong in the #HPC community is having many of our major conference presentations and talks behin….

Oct 29, 1945: @MIT hosts 1st conference on Advanced Computation Techniques. It is held in conjunction w/ 1st public demonstration of MIT's new Differential Analyzer, developed by Vannevar Bush and S.H. Caldwell. ( #supercomputing #HPC.

Oct 28, 1937: BDay of Ted Hoff - he joined @intel as employee #12 in 1968, and is credited with coming up with the idea of a universal processor that eventually became the 1st microprocessor, the Intel 4004 #supercomputing #HPC.

Oct 27, 1997: US @StateDept spokesman says that in case of 6 US supercomputers improperly acquired by Russian nuclear weapons labs, US would accept transferring systems to civilian use, rather than requiring they be returned ( #supercomputing #HPC.

RT @todayininfosec: 1980: ARPANET (the precursor to the Internet) ground to a halt because a bad status message propagated, causing all IMP….

The first Top500 confirmed EFLOPS system will be @OLCFGOV's Frontier system when it achieves the milestone on the June 2022 list