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Tallest Flag Gives Tough Time for T Govt
The proud moment of hoisting India’s largest ever flag on banks of Hussain sagar in Sanjeevaiah park by Telangana Government has not lasted long. T government is facing troubles in managing the biggest and highest ever flag. The reason behind this is the heavy wind that is damaging the flag with a small tear initially and that itself aggravates until it needs to be replaced.
With a huge weight and at a height of 291 feet, the national flag is often getting tears and the officials have replaced four flags so far since it was hoisted on Telangana formation day. Though the flag bagged number of records, its management has become the toughest part.
The first flag was replaced in just 16 days after hoisting and the second flag too got damages with tears in just three days after that. The next one took 12 days to get torn and with no other option left, the officials kept the post empty for two days. Right now, it is the fourth flag on post and each flag costs upto Rs 1.5 Lakhs.
First three flags were manufactured in Khammam and the government ordered the next three flags at Mumbai Sarabai flag company. Telangana government consulted Delhi flag foundation of India chief KV Gill and learned the regulations regarding national flag management.
When the latter said that a flag torn due to weather conditions comes under Monument flag category and can be kept down for few days, Telangana government hoisted the new flag after leaving the post empty for two days. There were discussions about handing over the management of national flag to HMDA from R&B soon. Apart from hoisting the largest ever national flag in India, Telangana government officials are worried about its management in future, when three flags were damaged in just 16 days!
Chinese supercomputer named world’s fastest; list of top 5 supercomputers in the world
China has just unveiled a supercomputer to the world that, at 93 petaflops (peta-floating-point operations), is the fastest in the world. What’s remarkable about the Sunway TaihuLight super computer is that the entire system was built using processors made in China.The Sunway TaihuLight supercomputer blows past the Chinese-built Tianhe-2 supercomputer by a factor of three, declared Top500, the authority that ranks supercomputers. At just under 34 petaflops, the Tianhe-2 ranks second.
In contrast, India’s fastest supercomputer, PARAM Yuva II, is ranked at number 165 by Top500 and peaks at 524 teraflops. One petaflop is equal to 1,000 teraflops.The Sunway TaihuLight supercomputer is powered by Chinese-developed ShenWei processors. The supercomputer will be used in climate, weather and earth systems modelling as well as data analytics, life science research and advanced manufacturing, Top500 reported. The supercomputer is located at the National Supercomputing Center in the city of Wuxi, near Shanghai.
Read more: India’s new PARAM computers will break into the 1 petaflop club
What are the supercomputers that Sunway TaihuLight beat to gain the top spot? Here’s a list of the five fastest supercomputers.
Tianhe-2
Ranked number 2, the Tianhe-2 supercomputer is located at China’s National Supercomputing Center in Guangzhou. Unlike the Sunway TaihuLight, the Tianhe-2 is powered by a mix of Intel Xenon and Phi processors. The Tianhe-2 supercomputer has been reported to be used for a variety of applications, from conducting aircraft simulations to government security applications.
Titan
Another former number 1, the Titan supercomputer is located at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the United States. Built by Cray, the Titan is reported to use a “hybrid architecture,” that uses AMD’s 16-core Opteron CPUs and NVIDIA Tesla K20 GPU accelerators. Built for science, the Titan supercomputer is used in molecular simulations, climate change studies, combustion simulations and more. Ranked number 3, the Titan runs at 17.5 petaflops.
Sequoia
Running at 17.1 petaflops, the fourth spot in the supercomputer race is held by IBM-developed Sequoia. Named after one of the biggest growing trees in existence, this supercomputing behemoth got a boost in 2012, which took it from the 17th spot to the first. Located at the Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration at the Livermore National Laboratory in California, U.S., the supercomputer is reported to be used in nuclear research.
K computer
According to Top500, the fifth-fastest supercomputer is called K computer, SPARC64 VIIIfx 2.0GHz, Tofu interconnect. Since that’s a bit of a mouthful, we’re sticking with K computer. A Japanese Fujitsu-built supercomputer, the K computer peaks at 10 petaflops and much like every other supercomputer on this list, held the top spot for a while, back in 2011. The supercomputer sits at the RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science in Hyogo, Japan. Yet another supercomputer developed for science, the K computer is reported to be used in research related to quantum physics.
Microsoft’s Edge browser has an extra ‘edge’ over Google’s Chrome
When it comes to online browsing, Google Chrome is always a preferred choice among users, even though it is known to be a battery hog. Earlier, it has also been reported that Microsoft’s native browser Edge and MacOS’s Safari are more battery efficient than Chrome.To further amplify the fact, Microsoft has surfaced with a test, where four browsers—Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, and Opera—were tested on an identical laptop (Microsoft’s Surface Pro) and the results clearly showed the Edge browser has much better battery efficiency than all the other three.
In the blog, Microsoft Edge’s web platform team director Jason Weber, said: “We designed Microsoft Edge from the ground up to prioritize power efficiency and deliver more battery life, without any special battery saving mode or changes to the default settings. Our testing and data show that you can simply browse longer with Microsoft Edge than with Chrome, Firefox, or Opera on Windows 10 devices.”All the browsers involved in the test were automated to perform a specific set of browsing tasks including opening websites, scrolling though articles, watching videos, and opening new tabs for each task. Some of the websites that were browsed included Facebook, Google, YouTube, Amazon, Wikipedia and more.
After the completion of the test, it was discovered that Microsoft Edge is a more energy efficient browser on Windows 10, ‘with up to 36 to 53 per cent more battery life to get what you need done’.In the further support these findings, Microsoft collected billions of data points from Windows 10 devices around the globe, clearly denoting that the Edge browser still prevails in real life, pragmatic situations.”These numbers are from actual Windows 10 use in the wild, not artificial tests or hypotheses. People using Microsoft Edge simply get more out of their battery every day,” Weber added.
Another test was conducted where videos were streamed on the latest devices, running the four aforementioned browsers. This test proved that the Edge browser has 17 to 70 per cent battery efficiency in comparison to the other three. In direct comparison with the Chrome, the Edge browser lasted three hours longer, totalling up to more than 7 hours of continuous streaming.
