FireFox 3 downloads

Fire Fox 3 downloads yesterday due to official release

Today Vs. Ages ago

What if we could not blog like we did today or share information between people as we have become accustomed to over the internet? This was a reality (one which I would not know how to live without), but all this was made possible with the creation of :

Kinda makes you think huh?

“This is the first known photograph of the great grandfather of modern digital computers – a room sized, one ton jumble of wiring, valves and racks that was 640 million times less powerful than its descendant, the pocket-sized iPod.”

Imagine an iPod, an iPod is more powerful then whats pictured above. Now lets look at what was announced today by IBM: IBM’s Roadrunner is the worlds Fastest and most efficient computer to date:

The fastest supercomputer in the world is also one of the most energy efficient. That’s according to the Top500 supercomputers list, to be released Wednesday at the International Supercomputing Conference in Dresden, Germany.

What more could we want; technology improving by leaps and bounds while doing it efficiently. Just take a look at where the fastest computer was last year in comparison to this years:

This year, the 31st time the list has been put together, the honor of top supercomputer goes to IBM’s Roadrunner, which is housed at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Los Alamos National Laboratory. It’s the first system to reach 1.026 petaflops (1 petaflop is equal to a quadrillion, or one thousand trillion, calculations per second).

For perspective, last year’s most powerful computer, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s BlueGene/L–also made by IBM–reached 208.6 teraflops. This year that computer ranked No. 2, reaching a max processing speed of 478.2 teraflops.

The fun fact of all this is that these computer are baised on the same archtecture as the IBM processors used in the PS3. Imagine that, a supercomputer uses the same processors as your good old gaming system. Thoughts comments?

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Discovering Austins networks

Sometimes it just takes one or two things to click to make everything fall into place. Thats what I think has happened to me in regard to finding out more about Austins start up community. Within the last 4 days I have discovered more then I ever knew about what kind of people are in Austin, and how much zeal and enthusiasm they have for start up culture. Many of you that know me know how much I love to that type of culture and networking with people.

Thus I was aching to find that type of Culture to which I was used to in the Bay Area, and it took me about a year but I think i have found it. My first taste of this was on Saturday at Product Camp Austin(Paul Young Pictured above), I started to meet some of them there but it translated towards Geek Austin @ Semantic Web Launch Party today:

Pictured are : Juan Sequeda and John Del Olivera (Co-Hosts)

The topic was Semantic Web ( I am still trying to learn more  about this). I am starting to get a rough idea of what it is after today. Either way the main point of this post is to show how in a year of living in Austin and not finding much web 2.0 things. In 4 days I discovered an entire community which is trying to start up things as http://startupdistrict.com/ or get the area more interested in http://austin30.org/. I was extremely amazed and enjoyed the company I meet today. Really hoping to make good relationships with the crowd I meet and maybe even toss some ideas around with them. Thoughts Comments ?