Our Video Sunday feature continues with this tribute to 20 years of Linux.
Video: The Story of Linux
Video: A Machine that Flys like a Bird
Our Video Sunday feature continues with this inspiring piece of computer-aided engineering.
Plenty of robots can fly — but none can fly like a real bird. That is, until Markus Fischer and his team at Festo built SmartBird, a large, lightweight robot, modeled on a seagull, that flies by flapping its wings. A soaring demo fresh from TEDGlobal 2011.
Video: IIT Bombay’s SpaceTime Supercomputer
This video provides a rare look into the IIT Bombay supercomputer center. The University’s “SpaceTime” system comprises 3200 processors, providing 24 Teraflops of compute capacity for researchers.
Video: Architecting Parallel Software with Patterns
Our Video Sunday feature continues with this presentation by Kurt Keutzer of the PALLAS group: Architecting Parallel Software with Patterns.
Video: SIGGRAPH 2011 Technical Papers Preview
Our Video Sunday feature continues with this preview of SIGGRAPH 2011 Technical Papers. The conference, which has shrunk quite a bit over the years, made an interesting move to Vancouver, B.C. this year, August 9 – 11.
Video: PyCon 2011: Python for HPC
Our Video Sunday feature continues with this presentation by William Scullin from Argonne National Laboratory on Python’s role in the HPC space.
Python is becoming increasingly popular within the high performance computing community. While it initially gained traction as a scripting language, Python’s role has continued to expand with Python applications for science scaling to hundreds of thousands of cores and bindings to high performance libraries becoming commonplace.
Video: 1997 Steve Jobs Keynote Reveals Clues to the Future
Our Video Sunday feature continues with Steve Jobs’ 1997 keynote at Apple’s World Wide Developers Conference. For me, watching this video was kind of a forensic experience as I listened for clues of the future we all live in today. It is clear to me that Apple products are as much about Job’s point of view than anything else. And when he talks about the important potential of networking for the company and its customers, he couldn’t have been any more right on the money.
Video: Dedication of New CASL Facility for Advanced Simulation of Light Water Reactors
Our Video Sunday feature continues with this presentation by DOE Under Secretary for Science Steven Koonin and Department of Energy Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy Pete Lyons. The pair visited Oak Ridge National Laboratory for the dedication of the Consortium for the Advanced Simulation of Light Water Reactors, or CASL, on Tuesday, May 3. ORNL Director Thom Mason, CASL Director Doug Kothe, CASL board chair Ernie Moniz of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and industry representatives also delivered remarks.
Video: Seymour Cray Introduces the CRAY-1
Our Video Sunday feature continues with this rare footage of Seymour Cray giving a talk on the CRAY-1 supercomputer in 1976. Some people claim it took place at LANL, but he does say something about “across the Bay” so I believe this was shot at LLNL.
Some fun facts from commenter Dave Patterson:
- The CRAY-1 was 39 inches in diameter, just over 6 feet tall, and dissipated 100,000 watts using freon cooling.
- The talk is in December 1976, when Cray was 51 years old.
- The CRAY-1 was the sixth generation of computers that he designed.
I figure I timed my career just about right. By the time I run out of ideas, I’ll be approaching retirement. … I see at least three steps at, say, every four years that will produce a factor of four in speed. And I pretty much believe that.”
What I found fascinating was how this video provided a glimpse of the personality that launched the supercomputer industry. To learn more about the man, check out this Seymour Cray tribute video that I helped produce back in 1996.
Video: Panel Discussion – Information Security in a Scalable World
Our Video Sunday feature continues with this panel discussion. Mike Bernhardt moderates: Information Security in a Scalable World. Panelists:
Alex Kent (LANL), George Moncrief (USACE) and Virginia Bedford (ARSC).
Recorded at the National HPCC Conference 2011 in Newport.
Video: Haunting Images of the Sun
Our Video Sunday feature continues with these images from the NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory.
In the last year, the sun has gone from its quietest period in years to the activity marking the beginning of solar cycle 24. SDO has captured every moment with a level of detail never-before possible. The mission has returned unprecedented images of solar flares, eruptions of prominences, and the early stages of coronal mass ejections (CMEs). In this video are some of the most beautiful, interesting, and mesmerizing events seen by SDO during its first year.
