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The Tokyo Institute of Technology announced the details of the “Tsubame 2.0,” the next-generation supercomputer system for the university that will start operation in the fall of 2010, at a press meeting. The computation capacity of the system is 2.39 PFLOPS (petaflops, double-precision value), which ranks second in the “Top500,” a ranking of supercomputers, as …

This year humanity celebrates centennial of the birth of one of the great explorers and inventors of the twentieth century Jacques-Yves Cousteau. Jacques-Yves Cousteau was a French naval officer. He and Émile Gagnan designed the Aqua-Lung, the first self-contained underwater breathing apparatus, or scuba.

Mathematician Vladimir Arnold, perhaps one of the best known and highly cited Russian scientist, has died yesterday today at the age of 72. He was receiving treatment in France, but his disease was stronger. Arnold was one of the greatest mathematicians of the XX century.