Friday, February 29, 2008

Just some interesting stats

Indian economy overall has about 36% savings - households have an average of 28% savings and 6% is corporate savings - Half of the household savings about 14% of the Trillion dollar economy gets pumped into real estate and the other half into material investments!

Saturday, February 23, 2008

Challanges of Hexaflop Supercomputer!

Challanges of Hexaflop Supercomputer!

there's the issue of reliability, which tends to decline as the parts
count increases. Given that an exascale computer might have a million
hundred-core processors, Dosanjh speculated that such a machine might
run for 10 minutes before suffering a failure. To manage a machine with
so many parts, new fault-tolerance schemes need to be developed.