Ann, your article about supercomputers and bombs: I saw some of the frames, and the technology inside the frames, of the Intel one that went to Sandia, NM, up at Intel, Oregon before it shipped. You know, there are people that think Intel builds only chips. Well, this supercomputer has as good packaging, high speed interconnect, etc., as any mainframe I've been associated with, or seen. 9,000 Pentium Pros in about 200 frames, with as clean and fast clustering interconnect as I have seen. About a trillion instructions per second (TIP). There is nothing Intel can't do in the area of chips, boards, nodes, servers or complete systems.
BTW, this Intel supercomputer was used to calculate the trajectory of that comet which "comes close" to the earth in the year 2028. It also calculated what the thing would do to the Earth. :-{
I heard Sandia Labs scientists re-ran the program, and now it looks like it misses by 400,000 miles. I wonder if we (and Russia?) will still try to blow it up. Would be good experience? Hmmm. If nothing else, what a movie!
OTOT, salvias. They didn't do well in mounds I have in front of and back of the house. They got a white "rust", which can spread to other plants, so they had to go. I have a very large planting of African Daisy out back, about 60'X30". They have gone crazy, from a few flowers just a month ago, to solid masses of white and violet flowers. From the kitchen sink window, just spectacular. Outside of my office here in Sunnyvale, the Wisteria vein, which is all over this wooden overhang structure we have between buildings to keep rain off our heads (poor things, right?) <gg>, has gone crazy with lavender flowers in the shape of the beards Russian royalty had at the time of the Rusian revolution. People are speculating that the El Nino caused 2X normal rainfall, and, now, the sunny weather, are causing the unusually massive flowering. Glad I don't have allergies!
Well, only got to around 70 today, some more rain clouds coming in. We have it so baaad here. :-{
Just Kidding!
Ohio Gozaimas (Japanese for Good Morning, Good Evening, Hello, or whatever you want), oh vivacious one!
Tony
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