I like this sport....this is a cool video of Ping-Pong... Check it out...I didn't know this but some people call it: "Table tennis"....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrp-FT51zPE

I go this from Yahoo.com:

$5M settlement in Fla. boot camp death

taken from Lotterypost.com:

Winning Powerball ticket sold; buyer misses deadline to collect prize

A little more than six months ago, somebody bought a Powerball ticket at the Quick Mart at the corner of Cherry Road and Heckle Boulevard.

Somebody, somewhere, in the lint trap of a clothes dryer, or maybe on the floorboards of a pickup truck, has a scrap of paper that was worth $800,000.

That scrap is now worthless.

The window for claiming prizes in South Carolina is 180 days.

The unclaimed prize is the largest in the five-plus years of the S.C. Education Lottery, said Holli Armstrong, a lottery spokeswoman.

Somebody who didn't know he had a fortune cost Jimmy Mulltani eight grand. The lottery gives retailers who sell winning tickets a bonus of 1 percent of the winning ticket.

Mulltani owns and runs the Rock Hill store where the ticket was sold. He came from India, to make a better life for himself and his family. He works countless hours.

"Bad," Mulltani said last week about the uncashed ticket, in the ultimate understatement.

A 57-year-old machinist from tiny Woodruff, S.C., south of Spartanburg, picked the same winning numbers on that same day the Rock Hill ticket was sold. He cashed his ticket. He told the lottery his occupation was going to be "retired machinist."

The Li'l Cricket store where he bought the ticket got the $8,000 bonus.

"And we all got an $800 bonus," said Diane Wray, a clerk at that store. "I used it for Christmas."

That man from Woodruff, single with seven kids, did not want his name released by the lottery.

A man from Chester socked away enough of the $1 million he won a couple years ago to pay for his grandchildren to go to college, and more.

A guy named Wendell Hughes from Fort Mill won $1 million in lottery money last fall. His two sons' college is paid for, and more.

The $800,000 from the unclaimed ticket will go to the state treasurer's office lottery account.

"I hope whoever bought that ticket never finds out it was him," said Hughes, the Fort Mill winner, "because it will break his heart."

Taken from Cnn.com:

$1 Billion-A-Year Sports Betting Ring Busted, Those Nabbed include MLB Scout: 

(AP) More than two dozen people, including a professional baseball scout and a high-stakes poker player, were charged Wednesday in connection with a billion-dollar-a-year gambling ring that rivaled casino sports books.

The illegal betting scheme was orchestrated through a Web site called Playwithal.com, run by the poker player, James Giordano, 52, of Pine Crest, Fla., according to Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly and Queens District Attorney Richard Brown.

A break in the case came last year when investigators secretly hacked into a laptop computer that Giordano had left in a Long Island hotel while attending a wedding, police said. He was arrested early Wednesday by FBI agents who had to scale the walls of his fortess-like Florida compound.

Also arrested was Frank Falzarano, 52, of Seaford, on Long Island, identified by prosecutors as a scout for the Washington Nationals and a former scout for the San Francisco Giants. He allegedly was a top earner in a network of 2,000 bookies who took more than $3.3 billion in cash wagers since 2004 from tens of thousands of customers nationwide.

"This is the largest illegal gambling operation we have ever encountered," Kelly said at a news conference. "It rivals casinos for the amount of betting."

Though the gambling ring relied on a Web site, it was different from the online betting operations targeted by recent federal legislation. The scheme involved placing sports bets through bookies, who would assign bettors a secret code to track their wagers and monitor point spreads and results through the secured Web site. The bets were taken on all kinds of sports, including football, baseball, basketball, hockey, car racing, and golf.

The defendants allegedly laundered and stashed away "untold millions of dollars" using shell corporations and bank accounts in Central America, the Caribbean, Switzerland, Hong Kong and elsewhere, Brown said.

The prosecution is seeking the forfeiture of $500 million in assets, "among the largest such cases ever filed," Brown said.

A total of 27 people in New York, New Jersey, Florida and Nevada were charged with enterprise corruption, money laundering, promoting gambling and other counts. Giordano had waived extradition in Florida and was expected to be arraigned next week; prosecutors did not have the name of his lawyer.

Falzarano, who was ordered held on $500,000 bail after pleading not guilty, "looks forward to defending himself in court," defense attorney Peter Tomao said.

Charges also were brought against three companies that allegedly helped Giordano develop and secure the Web site: Primary Development Inc. of Farmingdale, N.Y., Prolexic Technologies Inc. of Hollywood, Fla., and Digital Networks SA Inc. of Davie, Fla.

Search warrants executed in several locations resulted in the seizure of gambling records, computers and hundreds of millions of dollars in property, some of it stashed in a secret room concealed by a bookshelf in the Manhattan home of one of the suspects.

The property includes four Manhattan condominiums, millions of dollars in cash, tens of thousands of dollars worth of casino chips from the Bellagio hotel in Las Vegas, jewelry, gold coins, and a football signed by the 1969 New York Jets following their Super Bowl victory. Also seized was original artwork by Peter Max and Salvador Dali.

Police launched the investigation last year after receiving a tip from a suspect in a separate organized crime probe. Over the next several months, detectives with computer expertise broke the code for the Web site and began electronic surveillance of the suspects.

Giordano "carried everything about the gambling enterprise on a laptop computer never let out of his sight, except when he left it at a hotel in Nassau County where he had returned this past June for a family wedding," Kelly said.

In the three hours that Giordano and his wife were at the wedding, investigators entered the hotel room with a warrant, found the laptop on a desk and made a digital copy of the hard drive without his knowledge, police said.

Giordano won a Texas Hold 'em tournament at the Bellagio worth nearly $100,000 earlier this year. 

I thought about this idea a long time ago and i am
posting it here so everyone could read it..Is a little
bit different..For example, a wheel for pick5 would
have the following ratios..2/3 (2even & 3 odds), 3/2
(3even & 2 odds), 1/4 (1 even & 4 odds), 4/1 (4 even &
1 odd), maybe it will have 5/0, 0/5 but they will not
be common and we are not concern with those two..Same
thing if you analyze what plays on a pick5 for an
entire month you will notice that each one of those 4
common ratios (1/4, 4/1, 3/2 & 2/3) EVENTUALLY PLAYS
in less than 20 days..The trick is to create (this is
a radical idea), an abbreviated wheel that will only
have 1 even/odd ratio, preferably but not necesarily
the most common even/odd ratio and that it will be big
in size, like size 25 or 28 for pick5, 1-35...You
could choose any of the 4 common even/odd ratios for
pick5 since they eventually play on a period of 15
days, (i say 20 days to be on the safe side)...

Again the trick is to creat an abbreviated wheel that
will be composed of 1 even over odd ratio only and
that will guarantee you like 20 tickets having 4of
5..Such a wheel, SHOULD be less combinations than the
complete abbreviated wheel..Using a wheel composed of
1 even/odd ratio only, I speculate that you should
have to play like the 3% of the complete abbreviated
wheel, perhaps less...If you can create a software to
design you wheels composed of only 1 ratio, it will be
perfect..And since you are only playing the 3% or less
of a complete abbreviated wheel, all you have to do is
play the wheel EVERYDAY until your particular ratio
shows up but you wouldn't have to wait long because
the ratio shows up normally withing 10 to 15 days...I
call this technique "WAITING IN LINE"...because you
are sort of waiting in line for your ratio to
play...Almost every day or every 2 days a different
ratio plays...

YOu have to think about something when playing the
lottery, why waste money on a wheel when you are
waiting on 1 particular even/odd ratio to play...I am
going to post a 30 day example of even/odd ratios of
the lottery for you all to see how often each ratio
plays..If you select the most common even/odd ratio
then you shouldn't have to wait that long...This
technique is more effective and cost less than
employing a regular wheel to play...This technique can
be applied to pick6 too..The problem is finding a
software that can wheel an abbreviated wheel using
only 1 even/odd ratio...I was told lotto designer
could do it but i haven't tried lotto XL designer...



Lottery wheel filtering software works one of two
ways. 

A standard wheel is generated and then everything but
what you want is removed.  The wheel's guarantee is
destroyed with the removal of even a single
combination.  

A conditional wheel is generated on the fly around
your filter settings. The wheel is generally a larger
sloppy wheel compared to a standard perfected wheel so
the savings isn't a great as you'd think.



What i describe would be a conditional wheel..But in
no instance i am referring to applying filters to a
wheel seeking one even/odd ratio...That's not what i
mean..When i say a wheel with 1 even/odd ratio i mean
designing a wheel from the ground up with only one
even/odd ratio as its backbone...I mean weaving the
numbers just the same way they weave (sort of speak)
numbers on a wheel (even though weaving numbers is a
little bit more deep than wheeling)...When i say from
the ground up i mean someone with a deep knowledge in
combinatorics that could weave the numbers of that
particular conditional abbreviated wheel with 1
even/odd ratio...

IF you apply filters to an abbreviated wheel the
guarantee is lost...

When i say creating a conditional abbreviated wheel
with 1 even/odd ratio from the ground up I mean
something exactly similar to the "crossword puzzle'
but instead of letters you use numbers (a Sudoku) and
you arrange them mathematically and combinatiorally
that would have a one a even/odd ratio and produce a
conditional abbreviated wheel......



Here is Georgia's Pick5 (Fantasy 5) numbers from
december 1st to December 31..Notice how each ratio
appears less than 20 days...The first number (top)  of
the fraction (ratio) is the quantity of even numbers
and the second number (bottom) is the quantity of odd
numbers..The first ratio shows you how it is written..



01-12-14-18-26= 4even/1 odd

11-12-20-22-39= 3/2

04-11-14-36-39= 3/2

05-13-21-25-37= 0/5

03-18-25-28-35= 2/3

07-12-24-26-35= 3/2

08-16-20-24-33= 4/1

04-18-24-32-34= 5/0

10-14-15-21-37= 2/3

05-19-23-28-35= 1/4

07-10-15-30-33= 2/3

03-10-14-27-32= 3/2

10-11-12-16-30= 4/1

09-13-27-28-37= 1/4

01-13-14-25-34= 2/3

13-21-22-24-26= 3/2

03-16-17-29-35= 1/4

01-07-28-32-38= 3/2

05-16-17-34-35= 2/3

20-23-25-27-35= 1/4

02-04-06-30-38= 5/0

03-13-31-32-37= 1/4

09-12-19-34-36= 3/2

07-13-25-27-30= 1/4

09-20-23-30-37= 2/3

14-15-16-24-25= 3/2

09-12-15-27-29= 1/4

06-09-13-26-29= 2/3

03-04-17-18-20= 3/2

02-22-29-31-33= 2/3

04-06-07-31-37= 2/3



 Not only you can let your wheel have 1 ratio
(fraction) but you can let it have 2 even/odd ratios
(though no more than 2 because it will then cost a lot
of money)..But having 2 ratios will cost you a little
bit more money than having 1 even/odd ratio
(fraction)...And if  i were you and i was going to let
my conditional abbreviate wheel have 1 ratio or 2
ratios, i would have use the most common or the 2 most
common ratios...I will look at the history of the game
and see what ratios are the most common..2/3 and 3/2
are the most common even/odd ratios..One of the ratios
is more common than the other but for that you will
have to look at the history of your particular game
and see which one it is, whether is 3eve/2odds or
2even/3odds....In this 31 day sample i just showed
you, the ratios (fractions) play in less than 10 days
(actually is less than that but if you were waiting on
1/4 from the beginning you would have to wait 10
days)...



FROM TNTEA...

TN ratio from Dec. 1 to present

2/3

3/2

2/3

3/2

3/2

3/2

2/3

1/4

3/2

3/2

2/3

3/2

3/2

4/1

3/2

2/3

2/3

1/4

2/3

4/1

2/3

4/1



You would have to generate a full wheel and apply your
conditions and the reduction would depend on the even
to odd ratio of the numbers you choose. 

A full 15 number wheel has 3003 combinations and if
you chose 10 odd and 5 even numbers and your
conditions were 3 odd numbers and 2 even numbers, the
number of combinations would be reduced to 1200. If
you applied the condition of 2 odd numbers and 3 even
numbers to the same 15 numbers, the full wheel would
be reduced to 450 combinations. So the number of
combinations does depend on the numbers you chose.

"IF you apply filters to an abbreviated wheel the
guarantee is lost..."

These are full wheels where 5 will get you 5 if the
conditions are met. You could of course try to
abbreviate either wheel to 4 will get you 4, 3 will
get you 3, or any win guarantee, but the 5 will get
you 5 guarantee will be lost.



Tntea from Dec.1 if you was to use the most common
ratio (3/2) you would had gotten it correct 9 times in
22 days and if you had chosen the second most common
ratio (2/3) you would had gotten it right 8 times in
22 days..If you chose 1/4 you would had had to wait 8
days for it to appear...And 14 days for 4/1 to
appear...Though, you have better luck if you choose
the most common ratio (fraction) which is between 3/2
and 2/3..YOu have to look on your particular state to
see which ratio (fraction) is the most common...Even
though, you can use any of the four ratios, As a rule
of thumb use the most common ratio (fraction)...

Stack47 said: "You would have to generate a full wheel
and apply your conditions and the reduction would
depend on the even to odd ratio of the numbers you
choose."

My intention is not to create a full wheel but to
create abbreviated wheels that will have like 10 or 15
4of 5's..For example according to wheels store an
abbreviated wheel size 15 with 15, 4of 5's comes out
to 1,062...If you count that amount (1,062) and
analyze how many 3/2 for example that abbreviated
wheel it will have you will realize that it will have
a lot less..



I know that a full wheel size 15 will have 1200 with
3/2 and 450 with 2even/3odds...But i am not saying a
full wheel but an abbreviated wheel, that's what every
person should seek...

Again i am not talking about creating a full wheel and
then applying conditions...I am talking more about
creating a conditional abbreviated wheel from the
ground up with "CONSTRAINTS" almost the same way you
begin to fill a "crossword puzzle or sudoku" with
"constraints" on it...Example of constraints: first,
you let EVERY LINE of the conditional abbreviated
wheel have 1 ratio (fraction) 3/2, 2/3, 1/4, or
4/1...Secondly, You then let every line and group of
lines of the wheel in "unison", guarantee a 4of 5 and
so on successively...

But you are right stack47, i just realize what you
said...the amount of reduction will depend on how many
even and odd number you choose for your wheel..IF you
choose 10 odd numbers and 5 even numbers the reduction
will be a different number than if you had chosen 8
odd numbers and 7 even numbers...(i was starting to
wonder what stack47 meant by 10odd and 5 even
numbers)...But this would mean that a person will have
to constantly (daily) create a conditional abbreviate
wheel from the ground up with constraints to keep up
with the daily ratios...





"You're not really starting with a full wheel because
the number of combinations is reduced by the ratio of
odd to even numbers.  You get the same results by
creating two zones, one with all odd numbers and the
other with all even numbers." 

"There are 11 ways you can wheel 15 numbers with a
ratio of 3 odd and 2 even numbers and the reduction to
the full 15 number wheel (3003 combinations) depends
on which one you use.  Maybe somebody has formula to
determine how many 4 if 5s are in each of the 11
different ways."

Thanks for searching how many times/ways you could
wheel 15 numbers with a ratio of 2even/3odds but I was
talking about a 3 even/2odds (the first number is the
even number and the last number of the fraction is the
odd number)..For i didn't have an idea how much it
was..

Even though you are not starting with a full wheel
because you reduced the 3,003 combinations to have 1
ratio it is still a full blooded wheel because
conditionally it will guarantee a 5of 5 win, and
that's not what everyone should do..Everyone should
seek several 4of 5 tickets and not 1 ticket with 5of
5..Why?the answer is COST...It will cost you a lot of
money..Not only that but when you start using big
wheels (example size 26 and up), the cost of a reduced
section (not a reduced wheel built from the ground up
with constraints, the last one will cost you less than
a reduced section) with 1 ratio and a big size wheel
that guarantees a 5of 5 ticket will cost you a lot,
lot of money, maybe inaffordable for the common
people...That's why is important that a person get
several (more than 8 less than 20) 4of 5 tickets in
the reduced section....

They got softwares (lotto boss pro, and i think
lottery director) that can tell you how many 4of 5
tickets a wheel or a reduced section will have, but
that's if you apply filters to a full wheel...It is
not building a wheel from the ground up with
constraints...

QUOTE:
"Laura Simpson from Great Lakes, Illinois deserves to be rich..."       "She is
so rare...."


sincerely,

MARS-1...

Weird Ideas i believe...                                                                                                                                                                                      

I think sharks should be eliminated from this world...They should go extinct..The other day they show on discovery that sharks is one of the animal with one of the highest level of testosteron..

I think there should be secret cult/clan just like in the movie "Eyes Wide Shut" and "9th Gate" with the sole purpose for the empowernment of certain Blacks, certain women and certain Nationalities/minorities (in every country) but they will not meet for sex but for clandestine or secret easy raffles but easy raffles that could be won easily...Raffle like a pick4/20 with 3 draws at the same time and not one...And sponsored by rich folks...People still will have to bet though...

I think dogs should be allow to roam the streets and should not be put to death, they have human qualities and and there are man"s best friend...What i think people should do is fine heavily people for throwing thrash on the streets, in every country...

question i always had: Why can animals eat raw food and we can"t..What makes them that strong..Why they don"t get struck by diseases that affect their immune system and why they never get fat..I know is built in their dna...

Observation: I feel US troops are not rewarded enough in the U.S...Good example: "The Air Foce gets paid more than the Army and who in the hell is taking the brunt of this war, isn't the army, who are constantly getting killed by suicide bombers? Isn't it the army i haven't hear crap about the Air Force or the Navy...Credit is where credit is due...

I wish there was a planet of giant bugs like in the movie "Paratroopers"...

Crazy thing i will do: Burn a real 250 million dollar lottery ticket...All i need is 4,000 extra a month for the rest of my life...But again i"ll like to change the world by becoming a billionaire and that way have more leverage to change the world, so i will have to save the lottery ticket..But what i am saying is that "I"ll do it" and then post it on youtube.com...: )

i think there should be free lottos or online lottos or raffle exclusively for government officials, exofficials, vicepresidents, presidents, prime ministers, senators, expresidents, exsenators, exvicepresidents, embassadors, congresmen, secretary of states, etc, etc...That will pay 17 million dollars after taxes..And that every country should have one...

Think for a minute: There are 20,000 stocks in the U.S Stock Market..Now imagine that there was a lotto or raffle that had 20,000 combinations and that will have 5 subsequent draws, and each draw is a chance to win..Or the 5 draws pay different payouts...Imagine a pick4, 1-20 + pick1, 1-4...This hybrid lotto has 19,380 combinations...Pick refers to the amount of balls it selects, [e.g pick4 refers to a lotto that selects 4 lotto balls, pick5 refers to a lotto that selects 5 lotto balls]..And you get money for matching 2 numbers, 3 numbers, the bonus ball, etc, etc and it pay 5,000 dollars if you match all the numbers...Is better than the stock market...

I also believe there should be an easy lottery for teenagers (13-17)...But that it will cost 25 cents (in U.S, you have to understand the cost of living in the U.S is a bit higher than anywhere else) and 10 cents in the rest of the world....And it too will be easy..Not to easy like the kid"s one though...A lotto that will pay from 7,000 - 10,000 dollars...Same thing with people with disabilities/diseases...This lotteries should have multiple winners and an aggregate amount...Or a video game lottery where there are winners and losers...Teenagers can play for money...If you can make like a virtual reality image with a race track where 100 cars can race/compete at the same time and the winner wins something That"s the kind of video games playing i am talking about...The only problem with video games is that they take teenager"s time and teenagers got to do homework, house chores, etc..If they can invent something that will work around this problem, then they are ok...The video game payout/jackpot should be aggregate amount too...But the point is that this video games gambling will not be hard...And there should be a place where teenagers can go and play, a place like the Las Vegas of video games gambling...Same thing with people with disabilities...What you would be trying to do is make a video game playing and betting experience simulate the impact that a lottery like a pick4 1-12 will have in a country...The jackpot of the video games playing should be an aggregate amount or an aggregate way...One of the problem with video games too is that the same kids that become experts will win a couple of times and in this case is ok...But i don"t think the video games should have the keys or secret codes, they should be stripped of that...Because then it will be easy...And after all video games have embedded in them RNG's (Random Number Generator) which is basically a lottery..

I also believe there should be an easy free lottery (the easiest one) that will pay a substantial amount of money to kids, like 10,000 dollars..Sponsored by some philantropist billionaire...Kids would have to show id to prove they"re kids..I also believe there should be an easy free lotto the same way i describe above but exclusively for female kids...And this easy lotteries would have multiple winners and an aggregate amount..If you don"t know what an aggregate amount is check Va"s Cash5 lotto in their website...Or a Video game playing, something like a big center or las vegas or video games but for kids and instead of the money going to someone it will go to kids..that will make kids win substantial amount of money, like 10,000 dollars also sponsored by some philantropist billionaire...But the video games will have to be carefully monitored, research and experimented with first...And easy games too..If you can make like a virtual reality image with a race track where 100 cars can compete at the same time and the winner wins something...That"s the kind of video games lottery i am talking about..The only problem with video games is that they take kid's time and kids got to do homework, house chores, etc.. The video game payout/jackpot should be aggregate amount or in an aggregate way too...One of the problems of video games lottery for kids is that the same kids will win over and over and you are trying to prevent that..You want to share the wealth with the other kids...And after all video games have embedded in them RNG"s (Random Number Generator) which is basically a lottery..

I believe there should be a website just like gamefly but free...To promote video games playing...Again sponsored by some billionaire...

I believe there should be a train system linking from Canada/Alaska to the tip of Argentina...And another Train system that will link South America or Latin America...I also believe there should be a road system that links or "recorre" (recorrer is a Spanish word; i can't remember the translation in English) all of Africa..Again that/those will be the days...It will make so much money out of it...

I think the Chevrolet "Monte Carlos" is a very beatiful looking car (design wise ) but is too big..If they could only make it small (not medium), it will be perfect...It they could make it green (environmentally friendly) it will be more perfect..

Taken from Msnbc.com or: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18440403?GT1=9951

Tiny terrier saves five kids from two pit bulls

But injuries force canine New Zealand hero named George to be destroyed

 

Nic Gibson / AP

Four-year-old Darryl Wilson holds a picture of George, a 9-year-old Jack Russell terrier that gave his life to save five New Zealand children from two marauding pit bulls, in New Plymouth, New Zealand, on Monday. 

 WELLINGTON, New Zealand - A plucky foot-high Jack Russell terrier named George saved five New Zealand children from two marauding pit bulls, but was so severely mauled in the fight he had to be destroyed, his owner said Wednesday.

George was playing with the group of children as they returned home from buying sweets at a neighborhood shop in the small North Island town of Manaia last Sunday when the two pit bulls appeared and lunged toward them, his owner, Allan Gay, said.

"George was brave — he took them on, and he's not even a foot high," Gay told The Associated Press. "He jumped in on them, he tried to keep them off.

 "If it wasn't for George, those kids would have copped it."

One of the children, Richard Rosewarne, 11, was quoted in the Taranaki Daily News on Wednesday as saying George fought with the pit bulls to keep them off his 4-year-old brother, Darryl.

"George tried to protect us by barking and rushing at them, but they started to bite him — one on the head and the other on the back," Rosewarne said. "We ran off crying, and some people saw what was happening and rescued George."

But George, aged 9, was so badly mauled that a veterinarian had to put him down, Gay said.

"The two pit bulls ripped the skin from his throat and chest and down his back," he said, adding the tough little terrier also "had a bad heart condition."

Gay said the pit bulls' owner had surrendered the pair to dog control officers and demanded they be destroyed, claiming they had launched unprovoked attacks previously.

COMMENTS: ¨Size Does Matter: Small dogs need apply...

Taken from Apple.com: http://www.apple.com/science/profiles/colsa/index.html

COLSA Corporation

Taking Apple Xserve to MACH5

By Barbara Gibson

When the Hypersonic Missile Technology (HMT) team at COLSA Corporation and the U.S. Army need to model hypersonic flight on a computer system, they’ll no longer have to wait two months to get results.

The HMT team, headed by senior scientist Dr. John Medeiros, now has access to one of the world’s largest and most powerful computers: a supercluster of 1,566 64-bit, dual-processor Apple Xserve G5 servers.

Called MACH5 — an acronym for Multiple Advanced Computers for Hypersonics — the Apple cluster “gives us more than 60 times the computational power of our current production machine,” says Medeiros. What used to take two months can now be done in a day.

                                   

“A single person using a hand-held calculator — without pausing to eat or sleep — would need more than two million years to calculate what the Apple supercluster can calculate in a single second.”

                                                                  

“Once you have that kind of computational power,” Medeiros adds, “you can look at things with higher resolution and see other problems you want to investigate. Plus you can tackle much larger problems.”

25+ Teraflops

Medeiros and the COLSA team chose the Xserve-based supercluster to model the complex aero-thermodynamics of hypersonic flight for the Research, Development and Engineering Command (RDECOM) of the U.S. Army at nearby Redstone Arsenal. Working with the COLSA team, Drs. Billy Walker and Kevin Kennedy of RDECOM conduct leading-edge analysis of hypersonic flight for a number of important military programs.

At its peak, the supercluster can exceed 25 teraflops — calculating more than 25 trillion floating-point operations per second. By comparison, the world’s fastest computer — NEC’s $350 million Earth Simulator — runs at a peak speed of 40 teraflops. A single person using a hand-held calculator — without pausing to eat or sleep — would need more than two million years to calculate what the Apple supercluster can calculate in a single second.

Modeling Hypersonic Flight

“With the kind of computations we can do with the G5s, we can better understand and model hypersonic flight conditions for missiles and scramjet engines,” Medeiros says. Scramjets are experimental, air-breathing engines that can power systems to speeds in excess of Mach 6 in the upper atmosphere.

“NASA is interested in scramjet engines as a cheaper way to get into orbit,” says Medeiros. “Also, in terms of high-speed travel, scramjets may provide a means to achieve very high-speed global transport.”

Medeiros’ team and RDECOM will also use the supercluster to improve the design of intercept missiles that defend against attack.

“With this kind of power, we can expect to design scramjet engines and missiles in a more economical way with significant reduction in wind tunnel testing and in the number of very expensive flight tests,” says Medeiros.

A typical problem Medeiros and colleagues face involves computational fluid dynamics (CFD) to model flight — for either missile bodies or flow-through scramjet engines.

“Depending on how much computational power you have, you define the space around the object of interest with from two to 20 million grid points at which you want to solve the physics of the problem,” he says. “Then you group the set of points around the object and assign a group to each processor on a multiprocessor machine.

Medeiros elaborates: “Depending on the grid points you define, the number of iterations you go through and how many time steps you want to pass through, a problem might take anywhere from several days to several months of 24/7 runtime..........................

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COMMENTS: I think of all the Supercomputers, this is the best Supercomputer yet..And it only costed 6 million dollars to build compared to the Earth Simulator that costed 350 million dollars to build...What more could you ask...Now they got faster supercomputers but cost too much; you are talking 50 millions, 100 millions it doesn't add up and they just robbing people..At peak it can do 25+ Trillion Calculations/Operations per second...At one point it was the second fastest supercomputer in the world..What more could you ask..And the price? 6 million dollars..I wonder how many calculations you will get for 1 million dollar? LOL...If you divide 25 Trillion between 6 you should get 4.2 Trillion calculations/operations per second (not counting the + sign LOL)..But to be on the safe side we are going to leave it at 100 Billion Calculations/Operations...LOL...And Powerball only has 150 million combinations...LOL..I can CIRCUMNAVIGATE those 150 million combinations OVER, and OVER, and OVER, and OVER, etc, etc, etc , IN ONE SECOND : )...LOL...Ladies & Gentlements: GAME OVER..: ) LOL...Maybe i should use the word: "CIRCUMCALCULATE" those 150 million combinations...LOL...

I dubb Supercomputers: The Transformers because they can "Tranform" this world..LOL

The original title is: "Clandestine Raffle:Could you Start it?: My letter to the embassy of Colombia, Nigeria, Afganistan, Thailandia & Haiti.."

The Major problems in this countries is the following:

Colombia: Drug Lords/Cartels

Nigeria: Known to have Swindlers Cartels..

Afganistan: Drug Lords/Cartels..

Thailand: Women Sex Slave Trade & Child Pornography Lords/Cartels...

Haiti: Poorest country in the world & Drug Traffiquing...

This was my letter to the embassies of Colombia, Nigeria, Afganistan, Thailand & Haiti using a bogus email account...