“What is a supercomputer, Alex?”

In the television game show Jeopardy! – where the answers are phrased as questions – contestants are usually the flesh-and-blood kind. This fall, the show will give a silicon-and-metal challenger a chance to compete against humans.

The computer scientists at IBM Blue Gene Research project, which is dedicated to pushing the boundaries in supercomputing, will probably hold their collective breath as a computing system of their design competes on the game show, test-driving several years of intensive work on national television.

Hitachi Europe Ltd. and GREEN DATA SYSTEMS announce the opening of a highly energy efficient data centre in Deventer, The Netherlands. This is a result of a strategic partnership between Hitachi and GDS for the collaboration and deployment of highly energy efficient data centres.

The data centre will be opened on September 23, 2010.

One week ago, I posted on my experience contacting Amazon.com tech support regarding a frozen Kindle 3.  The following are a bunch of metric analytics I'll use to describe my post 7 days old.  Note: I am using this as an example of what I can figure out now on any post I put on this blog.