Supercomputer Architecture and Data Centres

• (1 Sept 2014) A Drone’s Eye View of Apple’s Headquarters Under Construction in Cupertino, California
• (30 May 2014) ‘Internet machine’, A Multi-Screen Film About the Infrastructure of the Internet That Often Remains Hidden
• (29 May 2014) 6 Stunning Photos of the Internet’s Hidden Infrastructure
• (20 May 2014) The cloud is not the territory
• (14 Jan 2014) IBM to spend billions on new cloud data centres
• (7 Jan 2014) Why Data Centre Providers Love the Greater Toronto Burbs - Techvibes.com
• Inside Facebook's new Arctic Circle data centre - Telegraph
• (7 Aug 2013) NSA's Utah Data Center
• (17 Oct 2012) A Look Inside Google's Mystifyingly Beautiful Data Centers
• Inside our data centers – Data Centers – Google

• The Aesthetics of Data Storage

• Supercomputer Architecture on Wikipedia

•  Facing the Multicore-Challenge: Aspects of New Paradigms and Technologies in Parallel Computing.  
• "Cray's Titan Supercomputer for ORNL could be world's fastest". PC Magazine.
• (28 Oct 2011) Facebook Builds Data Center Near Arctic Circle
•  (11 Oct 2011). "GPUs Will Morph ORNL's Jaguar Into 20-Petaflop Titan". HPC Wire.
• (11 Oct 2011). "Oak Ridge changes Jaguar's spots from CPUs to GPUs".
•  (22 Aug 2011). "The K computer: Japanese next-generation supercomputer development project". Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED) 2011 International Symposium on: 371–372.  
• (22 November 2010). "IBM uncloaks 20 petaflops BlueGene/Q super". The Register.
•  (4 November 2010). "U.S. says China building 'entirely indigenous' supercomputer".
• "IBM Hot Water-Cooled Supercomputer Goes Live at ETH Zurich". 
• (10 May 2010). "IBM liquid-cooled supercomputer heats building".
• "Top 500 supers – The Dawning of the GPUs". The Register.
• (14 March 2005). "System X building the Virginia Tech supercomputer". 
• 27 June 2007). "IBM creates world's most powerful computer". New Scientist.
• (2004). "The Chess Monster Hydra". 
• (1998). Cracking DES – Secrets of Encryption Research, Wiretap Politics & Chip Design. Oreilly &  (2007). "Quasi-opportunistic supercomputing in grids". 
• "IBM Triples Performance of World's Fastest, Most Energy-Efficient Supercomputer". 2007-06-27.  

• TOP 500 Supercomputing Sites
• Facebook’s Architecture

Historical/Curiosity

• Big-Brother 7074 Is Watching You (1963 article)

Sherwin Tjia - Photohaikus (2010 - Present)

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Sherwin Tjia wrote a book of beautiful pseudo-haikus (lines of text taken from mostly overheard voices, shortened into epigrams, standing-in for a distilled experience, often ineffable). 

At present, he photographs haikus. 

His concerns are a mix of the mundane and the lyrical, his process forgiving of a self-admitted laziness ("effortlessness" would be the more generous way to describe this).

Ryan Trecartin's YouTube channel

Ryan Trecartin's YouTube Channel.

Ryan Trecartin is infinitely fun to watch. I think these moments are a joyful parody of the leaden "smart" art film. I also think Ryan Trecartin understands persona in the age of social media more naturally than most cultural producers, perhaps due to his comparative youth, where the game is: be interesting or dry up. A massive exercise in video improvisation, through each new staging, his camera-centric dialogues of a sprawling patois sweetly devour.

Flat, externalized "subjectivity" is treated to endless diversions and revisions. Adoption is as immortality for the Facebook crowd.

I sense the secretary for an arts organization hovers behind many the hero of his gender ambivalent serials. Art-work lackeys dressing themselves up in the toys of perpetual fascination: His family.