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Blue Gene is a computer architecture project designed to produce several next-generation supercomputers, designed to reach operating speeds in the petaflops range, and currently reaching speeds over 280 teraflops (sustained). It is a cooperative project between the United States Department of Energy (which is partially funding the project), industry (IBM in particular), and academia. There are five Blue Gene projects in development, among them Blue Gene/L, Blue Gene/C, and Blue Gene/P.
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The first computer in the Blue Gene series, Blue Gene/L, developed through a partnership with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), has a theoretical peak performance of 360 TFLOPS, and scores over 280 TFLOPS sustained on the Linpack benchmark...
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| Chip-level multiprocessing (also known as, Chip multiprocessor CMP) is SMP implemented on a single VLSI integrated circuit. Multiple processor cores (multicore) typically share a common second- or third-level cache and interconnect. The goal of a CMP system is to allow greater utilization of thread-level parallelism (TLP), especially for applications that lack sufficient instruction-level parallelism (ILP) to make good use of superscalar processors.
The latest versions of most RISC architectures use CMP, including PA-RISC (PA-8800), IBM POWER (POWER4 and POWER5), and SPARC (UltraSPARC IV)...
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| In computing, FLOPS is an abbreviation of Floating point Operations Per Second. This is used as a measure of a computer's performance, especially in fields of scientific calculations that make heavy use of floating point calculations. (Compare to MIPS -- million instructions per second.) One should speak in the singular of a FLOPS and not of a FLOP, although the latter is frequently encountered. The final S stands for second and does not indicate a plural. Computing devices exhibit an enormous range of performance levels in floating-point applications, so it makes sense to introduce larger units than the FLOPS. The standard SI prefixes can be used for this purpose, resulting in such units as the megaFLOPS (MFLOPS, 106 FLOPS), the gigaFLOPS (GFLOPS, 109 FLOPS), the teraFLOPS (TFLOPS, 1012 FLOPS), and the petaFLOPS (PFLOPS, 1015 FLOPS)...
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Communication is the
process of exchanging information, usually via a common protocol.
"Communication studies" is the academic discipline focused on
communication forms, processes and meanings, including speech,
interpersonal and organizational communication. "Mass communication" is
a more specialized academic discipline focused on the institutions,
practice and effects of journalism, broadcasting, advertising, public
relations and related mediated communication directed at a large,
undifferentiated or segmented audience.
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A family is a domestic
group of people, or a number of domestic groups, typically affiliated by
birth or marriage, or by comparable legal relationships including
domestic partnership, adoption, surname and in some cases ownership (as
was the case in the Roman Empire).
Although many people (including social scientists) have understood
familial relationships in terms of "blood," many anthropologists have
argued that the notion of "blood" must be understood metaphorically, and
in that in many societies family is understood through other concepts
rather than "blood."
Article 16(3) of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights says, "The
family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is
entitled to protection by society and the State".
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Gardening is the craft of
growing plants with the goal of creating a beautiful environment.
Residential gardening most often takes place in or about a residence, in
a space referred to as the garden. Although a garden typically is
located on the land near a residence, it may also be located in a roof,
in an atrium, on a balcony, in a window box, or on a patio.
Gardening also takes place in non-residential green areas, such as
parks, public or semi-public gardens (botanical gardens or zoological
gardens), amusement and theme parks, along transportation corridors, and
around tourist attractions and hotels. In these situations, a staff of
gardeners or groundskeepers maintains the gardens.
Indoor gardening is concerned with the growing of houseplants within a
residence or building, in a conservatory, or in a greenhouse. Indoor
gardens are sometimes incorporated as part of air conditioning or
heating systems.
Water gardening is concerned with growing plants adapted to pools and
ponds. Bog gardens are also considered a type of water garden. These all
require special conditions and considerations. A simple water garden may
consist solely of a tub containing the water and plants.
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In a variety of different
contexts, gender refers to the masculinity or femininity of words,
persons, characteristics, or non-human organisms. The classification
into masculine and feminine is analogous to the biological sexes of male
and female, often by physical or syntactical analogy, linguistic decay,
misunderstandings, societal norms, or personal choice. The nature of
this categorization varies depending on the context. For example, gender
can be used to refer to the differences in biological sex between two
members of a species, or different characteristics of electrical
connectors. On the other side, in feminist theory, gender is used to
refer solely to socially constructed differences between male and female
behavior, and the gender of a noun in many languages may have nothing to
do with the concept described by it.
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Home is a place where a
person lives, perhaps spends much of the time, or where a person is
comfortable to be. While a house (or other residential dwelling) is
often referred to as a home, the concept of "home" is broader than a
physical dwelling. Home is often a place of refuge and safety, where
worldly cares fade, with things and people one loves becoming the focus.
It can be the place of one's birth, where you grew up, or maybe your
first apartment or house.
The word "home" is used for various residential institutions which
aspire to create a home-like atmosphere, such as a retirement home, a
nursing home, a 'group home' (an orphanage for children or a retirement
home for adults), a foster home, etc.
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A pet is an animal that is
kept (mostly by humans) for companionship and enjoyment, as opposed to
livestock, which are kept for economic reasons. The most popular are
noted for their loyal or playful characteristics or their attractive
appearance or song.
The term "pet" may also be applied to humans, usually in an endearing
way by a lover, significant other, or partner. Calling another person a
pet, though, can just as easily be considered an insult (see
"plaything").
While in theory one could keep any animal as a pet, in practice a small
number of species of mammals, especially dogs and cats, and other
animals such as birds have dominated the pet scene for a very long time.
Fish have joined them more recently. Many of these are domesticated
while others, are often considered exotic pets such as reptiles.
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