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Thursday, May 8, 2003
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This week I submitted two new columns to a Finnish IT magazine. One of the columns is written for the web site of the magazine, and the other for the printed version. In the print column I wrote about my experiences in supercomputing. I have spent now over one third of my life working with supercomputers. During this time, the computational capacity had increased approximately by a factor of 1000. (My PowerBook G4 is about as fast as the first machine, a Cray X-MP, with twice the memory.) It is interesting to see if this rate of development will continue for the next dozen years. (As a sidenote, in 1997 I wrote an essay titled 'Working with Information Technology'. This essay discusses my experiences of computational science.)
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