Posts by ericstob

US boffin builds 32-way Raspberry Pi cluster

gpu

I think to get anywhere near decent performance from this you will need to use the gpu not the cpu.

Six things a text editor must do - or it's a one-way trip to the trash

um

Not sure if troll or serious.

Felix Baumgartner sadly turns out to be blinkered FOOL

he's right

Sorry but he's right - we don't have the right technology yet.

We should be spending the money on particle colliders and fusion containment research, and fundamentally advancing physics rather than engineering technical feats that do not actually propel science forward.

Our mars rovers are far more effective laboratory technicians than humans would be.

We need another 40 years, this is the wrong generation to go to mars.