Magnetic vortices could store thousands of movies per square inch

KurzweilAI.net Sept. 7, 2006

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In a research first that could lead
to a new generation of hard drives
capable of storing thousands of
movies per square inch, physicists
at Rice University have decoded the
three-dimensional structure of a
tornado-like magnetic vortex. It
could lead to next-generation
magnetic storage devices with
storage densities in the range of
terabits per...

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Fastest supercomputer to be built

BBC News Sept. 7, 2006

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IBM will build the world's most
powerful supercomputer at Los Alamos
National Laboratory by 2008. The
machine, codenamed Roadrunner, will
be able to achieve 1.5 petaflops.
The new computer is a hybrid design,
using both conventional supercomputer
processors and the new "cell" chip designed
for Sony's PlayStation...

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