oak ridge: Photoblogging the "Secret City" festival in Oak Ridge, Tennessee
- 06/21/08 03:24 PM
Oak Ridge, Tennessee is a small town about 12 miles northwest of my home. It's a small town that has done some very big things, i.e. developed and manufactured the atomic bombs that ended World War II, leaders in nuclear research, have one of the 5 fastest supercomputers in the world, and lots of other things we don't know about because a great deal of their work there is highly classified. Every year they have a festival to celebrate their World War II heritage with the technological advancements that are ongoing within the City of Oak Ridge. For those non … (2 comments)
oak ridge: No housing "bubbles" in Knoxville, Tennessee
- 12/04/06 12:08 AM
After looking at our latests available sales sales statistics, the 3rd quarter, it appears as if the greater Knoxville, Tennessee area is not experiencing any sort of bubble or price declines. 3rd Qtr. 2004 3 BR Solds 2,390 Avg. Price $145,000 Days to Sold 803rd Qtr. 2005 3 BR Solds 2,747 Avg. Price $157,400 Days to Sold 653rd Qtr. 2006 3 BR Solds 2,491 Avg. Price $169,300 Days to Sold 78For about 6 months in 2005 I believe we were in a fairly brief seller's market which accounts for the spike in units sold; that tide has since turned and we're … (1 comments)
oak ridge: Association project
- 10/01/06 04:23 AM
My Association's Board of Directors is working on a member website project that should be ready to roll out live soon. Essentially it's a portal with all of our listings, great search features for consumers, area census information, and several other cool features. The purpose of this site is to take back control of our listings and use them to benefit our membership; the people that put the listings there in the first place. As soon as it's up and running I'll give you the URL and you can take it for a test drive. One of the very cool parts of it is … (1 comments)
oak ridge: My computer can beat your computer.
- 08/26/06 03:45 AM
So you think your Dell XP 10,000 BLT special is pretty speedy?? If you line it up against Oak Ridge National Laboratories newly upgraded "Jaguar" supercomputer that runs at 54 teraflops, or 54 trillion mathematical calculations per second you'll get left in the dust so fast you won't even have time to blink. Oak Ridge National Labs (or ORNL as we know it locally) in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, just doubled the speed of their super computer by hooking up 54 Cray XT3 supercomputers to run in tandum making their computer the fifth fastest in the world. http://tinyurl.com/pwlwt I actually got to visit the computer room … (9 comments)
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