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Dr. Donald Bruce, writes an article titled Faster, Higher, Stronger in the first issues of Nano Now. In response, Chris Phoenix takes issue with Dr. Bruce’s perceived ethical fallacies. I think one of the major deficiencies in Dr. Bruce’s article is the false …

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Google is a prime user of commodity grid supercomputing. As such, they are in a perfect position to release a paper on disk reliability, with hundreds of thousands of data points. Very interesting results, including the failure of SMART to predict failures, …

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Bill McColl writes an article named Supercruncher Applications on his Computing at Scale blog about massively parallel “web 3.0” applications. In particular the following caught my eye: continuous search, complex algorithmic trading and decentralized …

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This slashdot article talks about Nvidia’s compiler environment for the new GeForce 8800 GPU. Apparently, you can get a 10-200x increase in performance for heavy numeric tasks compared to a CPU. Assuming this will enable a 100x increase in Neural Network …

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Bob Mottram argues in a post on the Streeb-Greebling Diaries that Friendly AI suffers from a critcal flaw. The definition of Friendly is lacking: The elephant in the room here though is that there really is no good definition for what qualifies as “friendly”. …

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Chris Phoneix at CRNANO has some suggestions for nanomanufacturing using DNA bricks, and a followup article.

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Here is what I think Web 3.0 will have: A global and open Reputation Network A distributed and open Computing and Storage Platform Reputation Network What does it mean for a Reputation Network to be global? Currently, we have propietary reputation systems, …

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Brian Wang has predictions. And he has some actual references to back them up. (Found through Accelerating Future.)

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Wired reports about machines controlled by natural neural networks. Georgia Institute of technology.

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Japan builds MDGrape3 - a petaflop supercomputer for a measly $9 million. The hardware is specialized, but may possibly be suitable for neural simulation.

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