Supercomputer Essays

Cultural Artifacts: Cars Have you ever thought of what might be an important cultural artifact that influences our everyday life? Believe it or not, we make use of cultural artifacts much more than one would think. The cultural artifact that I am choosing to focus on, cars, play an important role in our everyday life by allowing our culture to move about our world and travel to new and interesting places. Andy Crouch has provided us with five thoughts that will help us better understand our culture

Cultural Artifacts: Cars Have you ever thought of what might be important cultural artifacts that influence our everyday life? Believe it or not, we make use of cultural artifacts much more than one would think. The cultural artifact that I am choosing to focus on, cars, play an important role in our everyday life by allowing our culture to move about our world and travel to new and interesting places. Andy Crouch has provided us with five thoughts that will help us better understand our culture

Neuromancer become, as Wintermute is cold and calculating, with a “hive mind” while Neuromancer has a “personality” (Gibson, 269). Through their combined hive mind and personality as well as manipulative tendencies, when merged, the newly combined supercomputer is capable of controlling anyone more than ever. Even though before the merging, Wintermute often took on the appearances of people that Case often knew

four failed IT projects and the reasons behind their failures: 1. “IBM’s Supercomputer Project” In 1956 there were some employees at IBM that wanted to build the fastest supercomputer the world has ever known. After 5 years of hard work they created the IBM 7030 which is also known as “Stretch” the company’s first supercomputer. IBM gave the first produced unit to the Los Alamos National Laboratory in 1961. The supercomputer was able to handle up to half a million instructions per second; it was currently

In Nicholas Carr’s article called “Is Google Making Us Stupid?”, Carr talks about the many issues he believes are stemming from using online search engines and Google in general. This article was written back in 2016 and published into The Norton Field Guide to Writing with Readings. Carr discusses his view on the whole idea of online readings and most of the information available to the world being viewed online through a search engine like Google. He also goes into thorough detail explaining how

Technology, the boom of the 21st century, is considered a daily crucial necessity. Two authors, Clive Thompson and Nicholas Carr, have their own different thoughts about technology. Clive Thompson, a freelance journalist, blogger and science and technology writer, points out in his article, Smarter Than You Think, many positive aspects of technology, on the contrary, Nicholas Carr, author of Is Google Making Us Stupid?, follows the opposite path and tries to convince the audience that technology

In the last twenty to thirty years, a vast surge of technological innovation has swept over the world. The internet is a giant collection of databases stored all over the world, allowing anyone with a computer and internet access to view virtually their heart desires. Today the internet has blown up into a juggernaut of political activism, business schemes, and freelance writing. In his 2008 article entitled, “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” published writer Nicholas Carr goes to the depths of the current

brain. Carr begins with a scene from the end of Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, where supercomputer HAL is being disconnected by astronaut Dave Bowman who was sent to space on a deadly mission by the machine. The author can relate his personal experiences with the scene where Dave admits he as felt someone tinkering his brain and not being able to think like he used to because of supercomputer HAL. Carr cannot focus

human evolution after which we discover tools which we decide to use for killing and survival. The second part is about how our knowledge has evolved to a point where we've conquered the planet and how a new tool in the likes of an intelligent supercomputer by name (HAL) becomes self-aware deciding to kill one of the astronauts on board, thus quite a mind-blowing twist from the first part. The third part has to do with our next step in the evolutionary process that leads the remaining astronaut (Dave

several parallel processing techniques to solve advanced computational problems quickly and reliably. HPC is widely used in sciatic computing applications like weather forecasting, molecular modeling, complex system simulations, etc. Traditional supercomputers are custom made and very expensive. A cluster, on the other hand, consists of loosely coupled of the-shelf components. Special programming techniques are required to exploit HPC capabilities. The most Common programming paradigm in such machines

In the film, characters are imprisoned in a supercomputer, called the Matrix, from birth. Those imprisoned in the Matrix know no other reality, while their bodies are held in stasis in the outside world, connected into the apparatus of the Matrix. The story focuses on a computer hacker called Neo (Keanu

People have different opinions on issues every day which can cause controversy, a disagreement or heated conflict over opposing ideas. These issues can lead to controversy in everyday life and zombie based violence is one of these examples. Zombie based violence has many different ways that an apocalypse could happen. One way is with a deadly virus that infects human beings causing them to transform into a flesh eating monster. Although zombies are just a myth people still believe a zombie apocalypse

with a bone. Jumping forward a couple of millions of years, a group of scientists, led by Dr. Floyd, are going to the moon to see a strange discovery; it happens to be another monolith. Another one and a half years later, two astronauts and the Supercomputer Hal 9000 are aboard a space station headed for Jupiter; there was a strange signal received

reborn. If you choose not to die, you will be referred to as a “runner”, a criminal hunted down and murdered by the police. They explain that Logan’s Run teaches that “[c]omputers aren’t infallible, no matter how appealing it may be to let a supercomputer run our whole world.” Yesilbas, Trendacosta, and Newitz provide similar

how those processes work. Our current solution to cooling down objects is usually by blowing on it via a fan. This is a surface level understanding of heat and if we were able to control the flow of heat through objects it would make building supercomputers, vehicles and many other types of machinery possible. This is why this research is incredibly interesting and important. It is a major obstacle that pervades through all types of

highly controversial issue in today’s society. With an ever-widening gap in technological knowledge between generations, many like to argue that every flaw present in someone today is due to overuse of smartphones. However, these pocket-sized supercomputers we carry around with us allow us to broaden our horizons and experience the world in an entirely new way. While some say technology is taking away our ability to be human, it actually encourages connectivity, and allows for new forms of discovery

2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY BRIEF IN-DEPTH STORY OF THE FILM 2001: A space odyssey is a Science Fiction classic genre released, directed and produced by Stanley Kubrick in the year 1968, and probably considered as the best science-fiction film of all time about man’s exploration of space and ourselves. The film is a story of human evolution based on a short story called ‘Sentinel’ written by Arthur C. Clarke. The movie consists of 3 main parts: pre-history, the future and technology, and back to earth

Information security is claimed to be a management problem in some aspects. Many businesses and government managers drift away from information security because, they portray it to be a complex task that's out of their reach. Information security is not 100% based on just technology alone, but rather than management itself. Many managers believe that more technology is the solution to technology problems, but that's far from the truth. Management has certain abilities that technology can't do for

Although social media feels new to many people, it has been developing for many centuries. In the 1940’s the first supercomputers were created (Hendricks, 2013). Scientist and engineers began developing ways to create networks between the supercomputers and paving the way for the internet. In the 1960’s, CompuServe revealed the earliest forms of the internet and email was also developed (Hendricks, 2013). Because of networking technology improvements in the 70’s, UseNet allowed users to communicate

our primary source of information, Carr claims that the internet well affect how the human brain process information. In the article Carr tries to explain what he means by using a scene from Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey where HAL (the supercomputer) is being Disassembled but the man the machine nearly killed. Carr focuses his attention on the fact that the computer is starting to ‘feel’ its “brain” being taken away as the man takes his memory circuits. Nicholas then goes in to set this place