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Peru vs Denmark / 1-1 Argentina vs Iceland 3-0 Croatia vs Nigeria 1-2

To keep Summit from overheating, more than 4,000 gallons of water pump through its cooling system every minute, according to Oak Ridge National Laboratory where the beast is housed. It's shiny, fast and ultrapowerful. But it's not the latest Alpha Romeo. A physics laboratory in Tennessee just unveiled Summit, likely to be named the world's speediest and smartest supercomputer. Perhaps most exciting for the U.S.? It's faster than China's. The supercomputer — which fills a server room the size of two tennis courts — can spit out answers to 200 quadrillion (or 200 with 15 zeros) calculations per second, or 200 petaflops, according to Oak Ridge National Laboratory, where the supercomputer resides. "If every person on Earth completed one calculation per second, it would take the world population 305 days to do what Summit can do in 1 second," according to an ORNL statement. Put another way, if one person were to run the calculations, hypothetically, it would take 2.3 trillion days, or 6.35 billion years. [9 Super-Cool Uses for Supercomputers] The former "world's fastest supercomputer," called Sunway TaihuLight, can perform 93,000 calculations a second (93 petaflops), while humming away inside China's National Supercomputing Center in Wuxi. Basically, unlike older computer chips, these chips are optimized for a special type of mathematical operation on matrices — or rectangles filled with numbers with rules for adding, subtracting and multiplying the different rows and columns. Computers equipped with AI programs often learn using so-called neural networks, which have several layers in which lower calculations feed into higher ones. And this process requires the heavy use of matrices. "This is a brand-new feature that has allowed us to break the exascale barrier," Jacobson said, referring to a processing speed that's over a billion billion calculations per second. In addition, Summit has loads of superfast memory (RAM) available on each of its nodes, where localized calculations can take place. "Each node on Summit has 512 Gb [gigabytes] of RAM and the network that communicates between nodes uses adaptive routing, and is thus incredibly fast, which helps us scale the calculation across all the nodes very efficiently," Jacobson said. So-called adaptive routing means Summit has some flexibility in how it runs calculations — sort of like networks of brain cells connected to synapses. And though pricey — a New York Times report puts the cost at $200 million — Summit could deliver big for science: The supercomputer is built to integrate artificial intelligence into its computing, which could make Summit a formidable foe in the battle for answers to some of the world's most complex mysteries. Full article here: https://www.livescience.com/62827-fastest-supercomputer.html

Some Axis regiments are closed to balance the numbers for the campaign. Can you see the button on the Allied side ?

Some Axis regiments are closed to balance the numbers for the campaign. Can you see the button on the Allied side ?

Scrim #2 will be played today.

Congratulations @Hawk! ^^

Morocco vs Iran / 3-1 Portugal vs Spain / 2-2

Lets try to make a friendly betting game. Place your bets for the next 3 matches. Rules Guess who wins/draw +1 point Guess the exact result +3 points Standings @RAnDOOm Points= 29 @RayderPSG Points= 37 @Sir_Kowskoskey Points= 34 @eXHaLe Points= 25 @Mane_Goddard Points= 1 @Pr0z4c Points= 26 @Spieler4 Points= 41 @Erwin Points= 30 @FunOxO Points= 17 @ALBREIN Points: 4 ______________________________

Happy Birthday dude!

Best: Forgotten Hope 2 Teamwork nights are back! Worst: Only being able to play half a round due to RL Other : Hopefully will be able to play more this upcoming Friday night.

Happy Birthday @Pichu1199!

Metroid Prime 4 - New Super Smash Brothers - F-Zero ( i wish...)

Mars had all the ingredients necessary for life to develop NASA has announced this week that complex organic matter has been found in an ancient lake bed on Mars. The groundbreaking discovery represents the best evidence yet that Mars was once home to lakes filled with the carbon-based compounds necessary for primitive life forms to develop. Intriguingly, NASA scientists have been unable to determine how this organic matter originally formed, meaning that there is a chance that it was the byproduct of ancient organisms. It may have also been deposited on Mars by comets or asteroids in the distant past. Certainly, the presence of these compounds would have helped to sustain any life that did arise. "We know that on Earth microorganisms eat all sorts of organics. It's a valuable food source for them," said NASA biogeochemist Jennifer Eigenbrode. "While we don't know the source of the material, the amazing consistency of the results makes me think we have a slam-dunk signal for organics on Mars." "It is not telling us that life was there, but it is saying that everything organisms really needed to live in that kind of environment, all of that was there." Full article here: https://edition.cnn.com/2018/06/07/us/nasa-mars-curiosity-rover-findings/index.html

First scrim today. Dont forget to join!

Congratulations guys!

It will, no need to worry. Request for all players: If you have suggestions on where to post adverts for the campaigns (forums / message boards etc.) PM of the FH2 admin team and let us know the what the website address is.

It will start this Friday at 18:00 UTC ! Click here to choose your side and regiment - https://cmp-gaming.com/gc/cat/37-forgotten-hope-2-into-darkness/

Would communication be possible ? If we ever do make contact with intelligent aliens, would we have any chance of understanding them ? While astronomers have been scouring the skies for years in search of extraterrestrial signals, comparatively little research has been done on the matter of interpreting an alien message. To help address this, a group of linguists recently got together in Los Angeles in an effort to discuss the challenges of translating an extraterrestrial language. Entitled 'Language of the Cosmos', the workshop was attended by several high-profile language experts including David Peterson who invented the Dothraki language for Game of Thrones. According to linguist Noam Chomsky, there is a 'universal grammar' that connects all languages. "Chomsky has often said that if a Martian visited Earth, it would think we all speak dialects of the same language, because all terrestrial languages share a common underlying structure," said Douglas Vakoch, president of METI ( Messaging Extraterrestrial Intelligence ). "But if aliens have language, would it be similar to ours? That's the big question." While some of the presentations at the conference offered a positive vision of a future where contact with extraterrestrials would be possible, others were less optimistic, instead suggesting that the potential for miscommunication and misunderstanding would be too high. Ultimately however, until such a scenario occurs for real, we will never truly know for sure. Full article here: http://astronomy.com/news/2018/05/what-would-an-alien-language-sound-like

Hey. You can check the FH2 forums. Maybe there is something working there.

A soldier demonstrating a prototype 'Third Arm' system The unique device acts as a third limb, enabling soldiers to aim and fire heavier weapons during combat. Developed by engineers at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory, the device, which is officially titled 'Third Arm', is both lightweight and works without requiring a power source. "It can help stabilize the weapon and take the load off of their arms," said mechanical engineer Dan Baechle. "It's made from composite materials to make it as light as possible, but also to ensure the range of motion that soldiers need." "We've actually tested it with the M249 and M240B machines guns. The M240B weighs 27lb, and we were able to show that you can take the weight of that weapon completely off of the Soldiers' arms." Whether or not the device is likely to see use during live combat however remains unclear. "Right now it's a prototype device, and it's a fairly early stage prototype device," said Baechle. "It's been getting a lot of interest higher up in the Army, but also online with some of the stories that have come out. We're using some of the interest to help motivate further development of the device." Full article here- https://www.army.mil/article/206011/army_researchers_envision_third_arm_for_soldiers