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[RighteousReason]

http://www.clipaday....chnology-coming


...whoa!

[Aegist]

Yeah, Seadragon looks very impressive, and Photosynth looks pretty cool too, but I don't think i really understand photosynth very well yet. I will need to really see it in action. ie: how it is actively stuck together to be practical....

[modelcadet]

http://www.techrevie...ch/18911/page1/

I know it may be blasphemy to post a Technology Review article here... but it was quite good. As I stated in another post, it makes me really wish I had the money to invest in other emerging technologies, like Novamente, who is beginning to position itself through partnerships to provide innumerable services in this new interface.

[luv2increase]

Yeah, Seadragon looks very impressive, and Photosynth looks pretty cool too, but I don't think i really understand photosynth very well yet. I will need to really see it in action. ie: how it is actively stuck together to be practical....

It really makes sense to me the huge need for processing power. Using technology like this could be used for the next generation games. Imagine when it gets to the level of being life-like!!! Video games could take use of this where graphics are obsolete because absolute realism is only craved by gamers. It would be games where 'everything' is completely, 100% life-like.

If a big coalition formed, and everyone submitted their photos into a special database, the whole world could be mapped. If enough time elapsed, there would be pictures for every location along with pictures specific to their time seasons which will ultimately allow an individual to scroll through the database when everything we see was at one given time-->season.

This is crazy. It will be really crazy when we all have laptops with 5000Ghz computing capability. The computing in 10 years will be even more crazy then from what it is now compared to now from what it was like in the 60s, 70s.

[Aegist]

This is crazy.  It will be really crazy when we all have laptops with 5000Ghz computing capability.  The computing in 10 years will be even more crazy then from what it is now compared to now from what it was like in the 60s, 70s.

That is very linear thinking. Watch a talk or two by Ray Kurzweil. 5000Ghz computing will be available very shortly. It's the 5000terahertz computing that will be exciting.

[stevethegreat]

As for now I have a 13.6GHz CPU that works like a Pentium 4 at 24GHz at ideal situations, it's named Intel Core 2 Quad QX6700 (overclocked to 3.4GHz), compared to the 3GHz pentium I had 3 years ago this is an 8x performance boost. Which means I'll have a 1.5 THz of equivalent Pentium 4 power by 2013 (in 6 years time), or better yet about 10THz (10,000GHz) by 2016......impressive

[basho]

As for now I have a 13.6GHz CPU that works like a Pentium 4 at 24GHz at ideal situations, it's named Intel Core 2 Quad QX6700 (overclocked to 3.4GHz)

You can sign up for an account on Amazon EC2 Elastic Compute Cloud. It gives you access to a resizable compute cloud, with as many machines as you are willing to pay for at only 10 cents per hour per instance. If you occasionally need 1,000 machines for an hour of number crunching, you'd pay $100, and not have to worry about electricity costs, hardware setup, maintenance, etc. Each instance current gives you the equivalent of a system with a 1.7Ghz x86 processor, 1.75GB of RAM, 160GB of local disk, and a 250Mb/s of network bandwidth.

It amazing to know that that sort of computing power is now available to anyone on demand anywhere in the world with an internet connection.

[Ghostrider]

http://www.clipaday....chnology-coming


...whoa!

Very interesting link. It's amazing how those images were assembled and displayed so that they were so fluid. Really cool.

[Ghostrider]

As for now I have a 13.6GHz CPU that works like a Pentium 4 at 24GHz at ideal situations, it's named Intel Core 2 Quad QX6700 (overclocked to 3.4GHz)

You can sign up for an account on Amazon EC2 Elastic Compute Cloud. It gives you access to a resizable compute cloud, with as many machines as you are willing to pay for at only 10 cents per hour per instance. If you occasionally need 1,000 machines for an hour of number crunching, you'd pay $100, and not have to worry about electricity costs, hardware setup, maintenance, etc. Each instance current gives you the equivalent of a system with a 1.7Ghz x86 processor, 1.75GB of RAM, 160GB of local disk, and a 250Mb/s of network bandwidth.

It amazing to know that that sort of computing power is now available to anyone on demand anywhere in the world with an internet connection.

I am surprised that there are no restrictions on leasing computing power above a certain threshold. Even Apple and HP sell production machines that require no-export restrictions to be signed.

Regarding the 13.6 GHz Core 2 Quad (I think you meant 3.6 or 3.4 GHz), I look at the other exponential rate of change...the decline in market value of that product with time. And that's why I don't have one.

[Cyberbrain]

The applications of this technology could also be used in the textures of video games ... where the player would be able to zoom in into a wall for instance and would be able to see minute details.