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“Now, That’s What I Call a Table!” (Part II)

Checking 112 Mac Minis, Berlin, August '06.
Checking 112 Mac Minis, Berlin, August '06.
Following Friday’s post about the biggest table ever built, dropping knowledge Senior Software Engineer Jakob Uszkoreit called me to point out that far from being simply the world’s largest table, the Table of Free Voices is also the fastest, most high-tech table in the history of humanity…
Head programmer of the dropping knowledge portal and global dialog forum (and the son of DFKI Scientific Director, Professor Hans Uskoreit), Jakob can be said to know a thing or two about hi-tech. The way he describes it, the outsized Table sounds like nothing less than a tech-head’s dream-device…
“In terms of computing power, the Table delivers a peak performance of around 230 GFLOPS, which means that it can calculate 230,000,000,000 floating point operations per second.
“Packed with technology, the table features 112 Mini-DV Cameras, 112 Mac Minis with 224 Intel Core CPU cores running at 1.66 GHz, more than 36 terabytes of storage space spread over 224 individual hard drives and miles of cabling…
“While in recording mode, the table records 112 DV audio-video streams with a total bandwidth of over 3.8 Gigabits per second and performs a real-time h.264 compression on all 112 video streams.
“By the evening of September 9th, the Table will have recorded, compressed and stored almost 700 hours of video footage, as both high-quality material and in compressed, ready for streaming formats.”
Put that in your i-pipe and smoke it! Seriously now, that’s one smart Table…

28 August 2006 | 06.07pm (CEST) | posted by Joe | |
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2 Responses to ““Now, That’s What I Call a Table!” (Part II)”

  1. David Anderer Says:
    September 5th, 2006 at 2:13 am

    WE all face a new horizon of possibilities.

    Beware of the ignorant ones who say, ” We have never resolved this problem or that, so you can not solve it, why even try.” These are the walking dead.

    Humanity has achieved great new possibilities with our emerging global community consciousness. We have new tools to bridge the limitations of the past both in human understanding and human technology.

    Your table is the Holy Round Table and is the doorway to understanding the wholeness of our human condition. Begining the DK dialog is the step of lifting our human struggles farther out of the darkness of ignorance and higher into the light of human understanding and cooperation for the common good.

    Thank You and may your table be duplicated over and over again until it isn’t necessary anymore.

  2. Jim Schuyler's blog Says:
    September 9th, 2006 at 7:05 am

    What does the “World’s largest table” have to do with ethics?…

    Over at Dropping Knowledge they say they’ve built the world’s largest table. And also the world’s most technologically advanced table. Indeed it may well be. Go read about the project, which is well worth knowing about. (As I write th…