Book Reviews


[Day Permalink] Friday, May 14, 2004

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Designer Virus Stalks HIV: "It took Adam Arkin and David Schaffer just $200,000 and a grad student to develop a potential treatment for AIDS. And that scares them. [...] it was almost too easy for him and his colleagues[...] to build the anti-HIV virus." [via Slashdot]


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North America's Fastest Linux Cluster Constructed: "A Linux cluster deployed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and codenamed 'Thunder' yesterday delivered 19.94 teraflops of sustained performance, making it the most powerful computer in North America - and the second fastest on Earth."