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The Mightiest Computers on Earth

Over the decades, we have evolved, not just as human beings, but also in terms of technology. A simple smart-phone today can do more that what the best personal computer could have done ten or fifteen years ago. And when this thought comes into our minds, we can't help but think "If such a small system can do so much, what are we actually capable of doing with supercomputers?" So let's look into some of the fastest computers on this planet today, May 2017. The Computers are ranked based on their Floating point Operations Per Second (FLOPS), or in layman terms, calculations per second. However, at this point a supercomputer is capable of certain Quadrillion calculations per second, thus we use Peta FLOPS. The speed pf these systems were calculated using the LINPACK benchmarks . 10. Trinity, Los Alamos National Laboratory The Trinity project is managed and operated by Los Alamos National Laboratory and Sandia National Laboratories under the Alliance for Com...

Switching to Linux : Shortcomings of Windows OS

Hello there! Many of us have been using the Windows OS (considering it's many versions), for a very long time. For some regions on the planet (especially where this post was written), Windows is the stereotypical OS for a computer. However, today we're going to see something which has been known to be the OS of servers and supercomputers, and can also be used in a PC like yours, Linux! To be honest, I've been using windows for a very long time myself, and it is no doubt, a great OS. But there are many places where Windows sucks (bad)! On this post, I shall describe why I chose Linux over Windows, and how you, a Windows user, can move to Linux easily! First, let's discuss the 7 reasons why I gave up Windows:- 1. Paying for almost everything... Even the office suite! Windows is a proprietary software and is not freely available. You must have a product key (purchased) to run windows on any computer. Linux distros, on the other hand, are free to downlo...

Electric Mobility in India – The Rural Approach

  “We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children” , these were the words of Emerson, that stuck with me, since the very first time I learned of them. It means a great deal to the human civilization, to protect the very nature that gave birth to the human race. Towards that journey, the greatest technological advancement has been in energy storage and e-mobility. While it may seem a pointless endeavor when the electricity used by electric vehicles (EVs) is produced by burning fossil fuels, we have seen a gradual shift towards renewable and clean energy on a global scale in recent years. If this trend is to continue, we may see renewables to be the single largest energy source by the year 2030. However, in this regard, the subcontinent of India faces a rather unusual challenge. How do we get a rather new, costly, and unusual method of mobility to nearly a fourth of the human population within a decade? A population, which itself has poor educational...