Australia unveils its most powerful super computer Raijin

Australia's most powerful super computer, Raijin, was today unveiled in Canberra.
Raijin, named after the Japanese God of thunder and rain, has cost $45.2 million to build and will cost USD 10.85 million a year to run, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) reported.
The super computer, unveiled at Australian National University (ANU), is said to be the 27th most powerful computer in the world, it said.
ANU researchers said the computer can perform the same number of calculations in one hour that 7 billion people with calculators could perform in 20 years.Raijin is a part of the new National Computational Infrastructure (NCI) facility at the campus.ANU scientist Lindsay Botten said the computer itself is bigger than the size of a house.

"It has 57,000 processing cores which is something like 15,000 ordinary personal computers [PCs]. It has 160 terabytes of memory which is like 40,000 ordinary PCs. It has 10,000 terabytes of disk which would be like 10,000 ordinary PCs," he said.
Botten said it will encourage weather scientists and climate change researchers to stay in Australia instead of taking their careers overseas.
"It keeps Australia at the forefront of global innovation and opens up new horizons for science and research," he said.

Finally, Apple CEO Acknowledge India's Importance

Bangalore: Apple rejoiced after its sales grew 400 percent in India, which made CEO Tim Cook to acknowledge that the country is turning into an important market for the company. The acknowledgement was in contrast with Cook’s earlier statement that he loved India, but felt business opportunities were much more elsewhere, reports Economic Times.

Cook while announcing the company’s second quarter result said, "From an iPhone point of view, we saw very strong sales in several of the emerging markets, sort of pre-pay markets. India was up over 400 percent; Turkey and Poland were both up over 60 percent. The Philippines was up about 140 percent."

The company also saw strong phone sales in the matured markets; it grew over 50 percent in the US, over 60 percent in Japan and about 50 percent in the UK. "So we had several regions where phone sales actually accelerated from the previous quarter," Cook said.

He also acknowledge that another popular Apple product, iPad, too reported double-digit growth in sales by unit in China, Japan, Canada, Latin America, Russia, the Middle East and India.

Apple’s Senior V-P and CFO, Peter Oppenheimer, said that there’s 20 percent year-on-year jump in iPhone sales to 31.2 million units, and he attributed it to emerging markets like India. "iPhone sales were ahead of our expectations and we were particularly pleased with very strong year-over-year growth in iPhone sales in markets like the US, UK, Japan, Brazil, Russia, India, Taiwan and Singapore," he said. 

Pope, Obama World's Most Influential Leaders On Twitter; Manmohan Singh Nowhere in Scene

Bangalore: Twitter has over three-quarter of the world’s leaders on it, but the leaders like U.S. president Barack Obama and Pope Francis turned out to be world’s most influential leaders on the micro-blogging site, according to the Twiplomacy Study 2013, released by public relations firm Burson-Marsteller. The report also says that the Indian Prime Minister, who joined Twitter in January 2012 has yet to make a noticeable mark.

According to the report, Obama, whose handle is @BarackObama, has 33.5 million followers getting him the crown for having most followers in the world. Obama was the first world leader to join Twitter, and he’s the most followed, the most listed and he also follows a record 661,084 other Twitter users, which includes only two other world leaders.

Pope is at second spot with 7.2 million followers on his nine different twitter accounts with handle @Pontifex. However he’s far more influential than Obama when it comes to number of re-tweets he gets, which is about 11,116 re-tweets for every tweet he sends on his Spanish account. And his English tweets receive on average 8,219 re-tweets.

The White House twitter account, @WhiteHouse has 4.02 million followers, and is placed third. In fourth place is Turkish President Abdullah Gül with twitter handle @cbabdullahgul, which has 3.429 million followers and he’s closely followed by the country’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, with twitter handle @RT_Erdogan, who is in fifth place with 3.409 million followers.

Queen Rania of Jordan (@QueenRania), Indonesia’s president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (@SBYudhoyono), Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev (@MedvedevRussia and @MedvedevRussiae), the UK government (@Number10gov), and Argentine President Cristina Kirchner (@CFKArgentina), respectively have more than 2 million followers, and so gets into the list of top 10 most influential leaders on Twitter.

As of 1 July, all 505 accounts of world leaders together had 105.7 million followers. And if you are wondering why Dalai Lama with 7.35 million followers is not on the list, it is because as Matthias Lüfkens of Twiplomacy clarified that "world leader" was defined as heads of states and government accounts of UN member states, so it doesn’t have Tibet in the list.

When it comes to Indian Prime Minister, the report says, “Manmohan Singh has tried, so far unsuccessfully, to connect with his G20 peers in Brasília, Canberra, Moscow, London, Ottawa, Tokyo and Washington on Twitter.”

Karnataka Engineering Colleges Ratings 2013.

This blog will surely help those who are willing to take admission in Karnataka irrespective of B.Tech or M.tech. These ratings are very important because it helps students and parents to narrow down their search for a good college. Karnataka Engineering Colleges Ratings are sought out every year by students aspiring to join an engineering college.
. The effort is been made to jot down the list of engineering college on the various criteria's. In today’s paid media world it becomes very important for we readers to get ‘truthful’ information and i believe this will help you a lot.

The table lists only 59 out of the 206 rated colleges.

The colleges have been rated as AAA+, AAA, AA+, AA (highest to lowest). These ratings are for Karnataka state level only and not for the national level.
Engineering colleges in Karnataka will have to pull up their socks to be recognized at the national level.
Please note that the colleges are sorted alphabetically in each ratings group. This report is not a ‘rankings report’ but a ‘ratings report’.
We wish our students, the future of India, good luck. Please be a positive contributor to the society irrespective of which college (and degree) you decide to select.

Engineering Colleges in Karnataka Of National Importance

1. National Institute of Technology, Suratkal – AAA+ (State), AA+ (National)

Central/Deemed/State Private Universities in Karnataka

1. Manipal University – AAA+ , AAA (National)
2. Jain University, Bangalore – AA+
3. Alliance University, Bangalore – Not Rated
4. Christ University, Bangalore – Not Rated
5. Sri Siddhartha Academy of Higher Education, Tumkur – Not Rated

State Universities / University Departments / Affiliated Colleges in Karnataka

AAA+ Ratings

• BMS College of Engineering, Bangalore
• PES Institute of Technology, Bangalore
• RV College of Engineering, Bangalore

AAA Ratings

• Bangalore Institute of Technology, Bangalore
• MS Ramaiah Institute of Technology, Bangalore
• Sri Jayachamarajendra College of Engineering (SJCE), Mysore
• The National Institute of Engineering (NIE), Mysore
• University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering (UVCE), Bangalore

AA+ Ratings

• Acharya Institute of Technology, Bangalore
• Basavaeshwar Engineering College, Bagalkot
• BMS Institute of Technology, Bangalore
• BNM Institute of Technology, Bangalore
• BV Bhoomaraddi College of Engineering and Technology, Hubli
• Dayanand Sagar College of Engineering, Bangalore
• JSS Academy of Technical Education, Bangalore
• Malnad College of Engineering, hassan
• New Horizon College of Engineering, Bangalore
• PES College of Engineering, Mandya
• PES Institute of Technology, Bangalore South Campus (Formerly PES School of Engineering)
• RNS Institute of Technology, Bangalore
• Siddaganga Institute of Technology, Tumkur
• Sir M Visvesvaraya Institute of Technology, Bangalore
• Srinivas Institute of Technology, Mangalore

AA Ratings

• Adichunchanagiri Institute of Technology, Chikmagalur
• Alpha College of Engineering, Bangalore
• Appa Institute of Engineering and Technology, Gulbarga
• Atria Institute of Technology, Bangalore
• Ballari Institute of Technology and Management, Bellary

IITs, IT biggies And Nasscom join hands To Offer Free Online Courses.

Bangalore: It is infact the confirm news that the tech giants of the country are gearing up to see people getting high quality education and make them job- ready. Seeing the rise of unemployment in the country. The step is taken up by seven of the leading IITs which includes Delhi, Madras, Kharagpur, Kanpur, Roorkee, Bombay and Guwahati and  IT big companies like Infosys, TCS, Cognizant, and industry lobby Nasscom, to launch a bunch of free, online courses that could help 100,000-150,000 with education and jobs, reports Times Of India.

The participating IITs  The IITs together with the IT companies which includes Infosys, TCS, Cognizant, and Nasscom for into a biggest industry-academia partnership to help students and professionals access top-quality course content and meet specific industry demands.

The courses will be offered using massive online courses (MOOCs), a model accepted globally for higher education. At first, the IITs will run three mini modules of a computer science course that includes programming, algorithm, and data structures.

Whereas each module will have 12 lectures, which sums up to 36 classes over 12 weeks. And in the later stages the core engineering courses like VLSI (Very Large Scale Integration) embedded systems, and others, and general sciences will be part of online academia. Persons who enrol into the courses will be eligible to write proctored exams for a minimal fee and get certificates, and for the computer science courses, IIT will give certification.

It will have about 15 faculty members from the seven older IITs who will form the faculty of the online course set up, and are currently designing the course.

The search giant Google is providing its Course Builder platform for hosting MOOCs, HackerRank will provide their web portal, to practise programming assignments and get them verified and graded. Cognizant will make available infrastructure at its training facilities during off-peak times, such as weekends, to enable students to take tests and get certified.