US – Japanese supercomputer accord reached

Japanese spousal smoking study revisited: how a tobacco industry funded paper reached erroneous conclusions.

OBJECTIVES To provide a participant's account of the development of a paper commissioned by the tobacco industry examining the reliability of self reported smoking status; to redress the distorted report of this Japanese spousal smoking study which evaluated the reliability and validity of self reported smoking status, and estimated confounding by diet and lifestyle factors. DESIGN Repeated i...

A milestone reached?

A Streaming Supercomputer

We are in an era where computational building blocks are plentiful and inexpensive. A single chip today can hold over 100 1GHz °oating-point units for a total performance of 100 GFLOPS/chip. Many graphics chips achieve 80GFLOPS and over 1TOP rendering performance, and cost less than $100. Embedded processors are less powerful, but incredibly cheap. It is fair to say that a raw GFLOPS costs less...

SUSY Les Houches Accord 2

The Supersymmetry Les Houches Accord (SLHA) [1] provides a universal set of conventions for conveying spectral and decay information for supersymmetry analysis problems in high energy physics. Here, we propose extensions of the conventions of the first SLHA to include various generalisations: the minimal supersymmetric standard model with violation of CP, R-parity, and flavour, as well as the s...

New Basel Capital Accord