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1 Terabyte Cdroms!!!
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Nuclear replied on Wed Nov 13, 2002 @ 11:44pm |
 Coolness: 2604120 | FMD storage technology, created by Constellation 3D, is a major removable storage breakthrough. Its applications are virtually limitless and are certainly not limited to computers. I have very little doubt that FMD will join the ranks of current removable storage acronyms such as CD-R, DVD, DVD-RAM, and CD-RW.
FMD is an acronym which stands for Fluorescent Multilayer Disc. Whereas current DVD reflective technology only writes data to two layers on a CD, FMD technology allows data to be stored in multiple layers on a CD (up to 20 right now, and potentially up to 100 within a few years), while utilizing a red laser which maintains backwards compatibility with current CD, CD-R, and DVD formats. Since each layer of a DVD data density format disc can store 4.7GB of data, 20 layers means approximately 95GB of storage on a single disc, with an access speed of 50-60ms and a data transfer rate of approximately 1 Gigabit per second. Constellation 3D's research has shown that 100 layers are possible, which would allow a single 120mm CD to store 450GB+. If a blue laser was utilized (which has a smaller wavelength than red laser, but is currently expensive to manufacture and too hot for consumer applications), 1 TeraByte is possible. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» djAmalgam replied on Thu Nov 14, 2002 @ 12:01am |
 Coolness: 105925 | i can't wait. that coupled with realtime burning would eliminate the need for hard drives for storage i guess |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» neoform replied on Thu Nov 14, 2002 @ 12:03am |
 Coolness: 339800 | disks are a thing of the past.
RAM Drives are gonna be the thing in the future.. they just haffa find a way to make em store data when not on.. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Screwhead replied on Thu Nov 14, 2002 @ 12:25am |
 Coolness: 685725 | no, it's actually a saline bacteria that will be the thing of the future. I'll have to find the article on that. the size of a sugar cube = 1 terabyte.
Plus, for CPUs they're working on quantum mechanics and already have a prototype quantum-based CPU that, if we were to compare it to computers today in terms of speed (even though it operates on a TOTALLY diffrent principat) then the demo CPUs are 8.3 terabits. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» neoform replied on Thu Nov 14, 2002 @ 12:44am |
| Coolness: 339800 | the CPUs are 8.3 terrabits?
you sure you don't mean the file name was in 8.3? (haha) |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Screwhead replied on Thu Nov 14, 2002 @ 12:51am |
| Coolness: 685725 | no, it was 8.3 terabits. The whole CPU revolved around quantum mechanics and quantum physics. The cpu is an unstable liquid cooled to absolute zero and it uses robots to manipulate the chemical makeup of the liquid to process things.
It's really fucked up. There was a huge article on it in an issue of Wired this summer that I'm looking for. I think it was the one with the manga cover. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» neoform replied on Thu Nov 14, 2002 @ 12:55am |
| Coolness: 339800 | umm, sorry to dissapoint, but absolute zero is yet to be achieved by man.
people don't even know what happens to an object when it is cooled to -273c... so.. somehow i doubt it's cooled that much.. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Screwhead replied on Thu Nov 14, 2002 @ 1:02am |
| Coolness: 685725 | uhmm, yes things have been cooled to absolute zero before. It was done in the 70s. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Screwhead replied on Thu Nov 14, 2002 @ 1:13am |
| Coolness: 685725 | I can't find exactly what I was looking for, but this is something I found on quantum computing, and you can find a lot more info at QuBit.org
IBM had some interesting research to talk about as well, like for example their quantum computer that is being developed in the companies' Almaden Research Center in San Jose, CA. Scientist Isaac Chung presented a paper on a 215 Hz, 5-qubit quantum processor. It is currently the largest quantum computer in the world - a 5-bit computer in a single molecule. The molecule consists of five fluorine atoms, each representing a quantum bit, or 'qubit'. Chuang and his team of researchers have been working on quantum computers (QCs) since the late 1980s. His most recent success, the 5-qubit QC, is able to solve the order- finding problem, a problem related to code cracking, in a single step. The order-finding problem determines the period of a function. Digital computers must calculate the solution by using step-by-step iterations of the function's values until they begin to repeat. The qubits take this problem to a whole new level. By nature they represent all possible values of the input variables simultaneously, hence the QC is able to consider every possible input value at once and only needs one step to solve the problem. This is the ultimate in parallel computing: parallel processing at bit level. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» neoform replied on Thu Nov 14, 2002 @ 8:23am |
| Coolness: 339800 | not to be redundant, but no, -273c has NOT been achieved. go look it up. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Screwhead replied on Thu Nov 14, 2002 @ 8:34am |
| Coolness: 685725 | Hmm. I was wrong on this, but not by very much:
In their experiment, the Michigan researchers used electric fields to confine a crystal of exactly two Cd+ atoms of different isotopes. They were able to cool the single 112Cd+ atom to a chilly 0.001 degree Celsius above absolute zero through direct laser cooling of the neighboring 114Cd+ atom. Laser cooling of this "refrigerator atom" removes unwanted motion in the atom crystal without affecting the internal state of the other atom. This is an important step toward scaling a trapped atom computer, where "qubits" of information are stored in the quantum states within the individual atoms. Read the full article |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» neoform replied on Thu Nov 14, 2002 @ 8:39am |
| Coolness: 339800 | *gloats* see, they never did it.
people say it's theoretically impossible to achieve albsolute zero.. tho i think they'll do it eventually.. but i bet it'll have some fucky ass affects on whatever they freeze.. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Screwhead replied on Thu Nov 14, 2002 @ 8:47am |
| Coolness: 685725 | yeah. Now go read stuff on how quantum computing works. It's fucking amazing. It's like having paralel dimentions in a box! |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» ApR1zM replied on Thu Nov 21, 2002 @ 8:18pm |
 Coolness: 164935 | good news! ill take a box |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» little_sarah replied on Thu Nov 21, 2002 @ 9:18pm |
 Coolness: 121575 | omg- are you cereal? |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» somekid replied on Thu Nov 21, 2002 @ 9:43pm |
 Coolness: 85140 | I want a petadrive |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» mdc replied on Fri Nov 22, 2002 @ 9:22am |
| Coolness: 148950 | that's some fucking crazy stuff... the only problem is that quantum physics isn't exactly an exact science, half the stuff in quantum physics are only lemmas, meaning theyre theories that have yet to be proven accurate or true... but if that stuff works... SCHWEEEETTT!!! |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» ApR1zM replied on Sun Nov 24, 2002 @ 10:35am |
| Coolness: 164935 | For any quantum physics new dev. check this link out [ www.newscientist.com ]
check out the whole new-scientist site for more of this crazy technology related news: [ www.newscientist.com ] ---------------------------------------- |
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