Southampton University supercomputer goes live

A £3.2m supercomputer, one of the most powerful in the UK, has been installed at the University of Southampton.

The Iridis4 has 12,200 processors, each of which can perform a trillion calculations per second - a measurement referred to as a "teraflop".

The IBM machine also has a million gigabytes of disk space and 50 terabytes of memory.

Home computers generally have between 500GB and 2TB of disc space and about 4GB to 6GB of memory.

There are 1,024 gigabytes in a terabyte.

The university said the new machine would allow academics to work on more projects at faster speeds.

The world's most powerful computer is China's Tianhe-2, which can perform 33,860 trillion calculations per second.

Moto X : supposed iphone killer

The Moto X, the first real Google phone, is the coolest thing Motorola has done since being acquired by Google. It offers 5 features that has not been seen in any other smartphones before, not even the iPhone!
Feature 1: You can design your own color scheme.
You get your customized phone within four days, courtesy of Feature 2.
Feature 3 is the most useful: touchless mode.
Feature 4: Motorola observed that many people wake their phones many times a day just to check the time or missed messages. The Moto X displays this information briefly every time you move it.
Feature 5: You can fire up the Camera app by twitching your wrist a couple of times, as though trying to dislodge a mosquito; it works whether the phone is on or off.

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