World's fastest: IBM's Roadrunner supercomputer breaks petaflop barrier using Cell and Opteron processors

Source: http://feeds.engadget.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~3/307852657/

When you're looking to set a record this is how you do it. Not only has IBM's Roadrunner supercomputer come on-line, it's now the world's fastest -- twice as fast as the old BluGene/L champ -- and churning through 1.026 quadrillion calculations per second. The $133 million supercomputer achieved the milestone with the help of 12,960 "improved" Cell processors (yes, like those powering your PS3) and a smaller number of AMD Opteron processors -- 116,640 processor cores in total. Unfortunately (or fortunately depending upon your perspective), Roadrunner is for military use only so you'll have to solve the traveling salesman problem on your own time. While not quite into Exaflop territory, we're definitely on the way.

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Create Mockup Designs Quickly with Yahoo! Stencils

Source: http://www.labnol.org/internet/design/create-mockup-designs-quickly-with-yahoo-stencils/3483/

Yahoo! Stencil Kit is a set of graphics to help you create mockup designs real quickly – you can use these stencils for designing web pages for the desktop or mobile phones.

And even if you are no web designer, you may use Yahoo! Stencils to create illustrations. For example, you may place screenshots inside the BlackBerry mockup that comes in kit or try different placements of the keyboard on the iPhone screen.

The graphics are available as PDF, Visio, SVG (Illustrator) and PNG (for Photoshop).

Yahoo! Design Stencil Kit - Thanks Lucas Pettinati.

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Improve Your Note-Taking Skills with Listen and Write

Source: http://www.labnol.org/internet/tools/improve-your-note-taking-skills-with-listen-and-write/3485/

Listen and Write is an interesting online application where you listen to audio clips on the web and type the spoken words at the same time. The audio clips are syndicated from a news website and are always about current events.

There's a difference between your regular typing software and Listen & Write – here you have to type what you hear not what you see on the screen.

You can create an account to track progress over time. And the application won't let you proceed unless you get the transcription right.

The app may even help improve the transcription skills of journalists who cover press conferences or even bloggers who are into live blogging.

Listen-and-write.com – Do the Dictation Yourself.

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Determine The Shortest Path Between Two Wikipedia Articles

Source: http://www.labnol.org/internet/tools/determine-the-shortest-path-between-two-wikipedia-articles/3487/

The shortest path between two Wikipedia articles is defined as the minimum number of clicks required to move from one article to another. This can be used to discover connections between topics that are completely unrelated.

For instance, if you are on the Wikipedia page of Microsoft, it would require just two clicks for you to reach the page of Saddam Hussein.

The route will be Microsoft –> 1990 –> Saddam Hussein

Six Degrees of Wikipedia is an online tool that will help you find the shortest route between any two pages on Wikipedia using links.

Unlike real world where distances remain constant if you move from A to B or from B to A, it's not so in the case of Wikipedia. The distance going from Article A to Article B is not necessarily the same as from Article B to article A.

Stephen Dolan made this interesting tool using Wikipedia Dumps that contain all the Wikipedia stories in XML format minus the images and history. Thanks Catherine.

Related: Use Wikipedia More Effectively

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