Food for thought
2006, recalling context from the Annual High Performance Computing and Communications Conference:
Main Street Supercomputing: The Convergence of HPC and Grid Computing
Cloud computing…
High performance computing, grid computing…
Grid of grids, a matrix.
Contextualizing conversation. Coming soon.
Food for thought
High performance computing: the grid, or perhaps a grid of grids; a matrix, running in the cloud.
The matrix, coming soon.
.
Doctors Without Borders
Haiti: HOWTO set up a plug-and-play hospital – Doctors Without Border
Aid Groups Focus on Haiti’s Homeless
New York Times
JACMEL, Haiti — Haiti has approved plans for more than a dozen sprawling tent cities in and around Port-au-Prince, the first step in an epic relocation effort that could reshape the country as up to one million people displaced by the earthquake find new places to live.
Full [...]
Logic and emotion
It was an earthquake. A really big one. Turns out the reaction and response reaches every corner of the globe. Perturbative, this event has challenged the dimensions of security, of rules sets, of money, of infrastructure, and of resources; and the world is challenged to provide strategic flows of security, aid, money, the [...]
Regeneration
Two things cannot be rightly put together without a third;
there must be some bond of union between them.
And the fairest bond is that which makes
the most complete fusion of itself and the things which it combines;
and proportion is best adapted to effect such a union. -Plato
The poetic hymn
“There’s an app for that.”
Underneath the hood
[black box [...]
Who knew?
Like so many who live in the popular culture and subcultures called America, unless network news, blogging journalists, or my Twitter stream calls attention, I’m unlikely to know of ground shaking events beyond shout outs from The Algorithmic Authority. However, once I know what I’m looking for–let’s say, “earthquake reports global“–then Google’s pretty handy.
Earthquakes [...]
The Crisis in Haiti
“When disaster strikes the second disaster that looms is the efficiency and impact of the three R’s – Response, Recovery and Reconstruction. As seen by the poor response by FEMA after Hurricane Katrina, lives are lost when a coordinated effort is not conducted. In a developing country like Haiti the biggest danger [...]
Your market ecosystem and business development. Shall we dance, the diagram of conversation?
