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Canada #42 >>18757856

Sudanese Militants Seize US-Funded BioLab in Khartoum Containing Dangerous Samples of Measles, Cholera, Other Pathogens

By Jim Hoft Apil 26, 2023

The World Health Organization warned of the potential of a “high risk” event after Sudanese militants seized control of dangerous bio lab in Khartoum as fighting continues in the capital city.

Dr. Fauci was behind funding of several international biolabs as NIAID Director from 1984 to 2022.

Natalie Winters at The War Room reported that the US is funding the biolabs in Sudan.

Sudan’s National Public Health Laboratory – whose recent seizure by militants has prompted warnings of causing a “huge biological risk” – received financial and personnel support from U.S. government bodies including the Department of Defense, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and Dr. Anthony Fauci’s National Institutes of Health agency, War Room can reveal.

The stunning revelation follows Nima Saeed Abid, the World Health Organization (WHO) representative in Sudan, admitting the situation was “extremely dangerous” because “we have polio isolates in the lab, we have measles isolates in the lab, we have cholera isolates in the lab.” U.S. federal funding has directly supported research conducted by researchers from the high-risk laboratory into cholera.

“There is a huge biological risk associated with the occupation of the central public health lab in Khartoum by one of the fighting parties,” he added.

The lab, which is based in the country’s capital Khartoum, is a recipient of support from a variety U.S. government agencies including the Department of Defense (DOD), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention(CDC), and United States Agency for International Development (USAID). During Dr. Fauci’s tenure as a National Institutes of Health (NIH) agency leader, he also allocated funds to support research involving scientists from the controversial laboratory.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/04/sudanese-militants-seize-us-funded-biolab-in-khartoum-containing-dangerous-samples-of-measles-cholera-other-pathogens/

video from: https://youtu.be/FlravENMiqM

Militants did it, convenient

>>22183229

Yep, even oil platforms

Petrobras hires Musk's Starlink, ups supercomputing capacity

Bnamericas Published: Wednesday, September 20, 2023

Brazil’s Petrobras is deploying Starlink’s low-orbit satellites to enhance offshore connectivity while onshore it is increasing the capacity of its supercomputers, the federal oil company's general ICT manager, Marinho Ayres Fischer, said on Tuesday.

“We recently entered into an acquisition agreement with Starlink and we’re testing it on the platforms. Initially, there are around 10 pieces of equipment [being deployed],” Fischer said in response to BNamericas in a conversation with reporters on the sidelines of the Dell Technologies Forum in São Paulo.

The negotiations with Starlink, which did not have a specific unit to serve corporates in Brazil, lasted approximately one year, he said. BNamericas was unable to confirm the exact value of the contract.

Starlink’s equipment will be used for connectivity on FPSOs, platforms and vessels in general, said Fischer. The Elon Musk firm's first dishes, however, are being deployed on platforms, notably those that have had more connectivity problems, according to the executive, adding initial use is "promising."

The initiative marks Petrobras' first open bet on low-orbit satellites. Currently, the company relies for back-up connectivity on satellites mostly in higher orbits, which tend to have higher signal latency.

Last year, Petrobras selected managed services and telecoms integrator Sencinet (formerly BT LatAm) to interconnect all of its offshore and terrestrial units via satellite ground antennas (Vsats) provided by Israel’s Gilat, as reported first by BNamericas.

Gilat works with satellites developed by Hispasat, Intelsat, Eutelsat, Inmarsat, Telesat and SES, among others. This month, Sencinet announced it had become an integrator of Starlink in Latin America.

SUPERCOMPUTERS

While offshore Petrobras is diversifying and enhancing connectivity, onshore it is boosting its supercomputing capacity, aimed mainly at exploration and research. Dell is one of its key suppliers.

Petrobras’ contract with Dell entailed four high performance computing (HPC) machines, or supercomputers, each with its own specificity and application purpose: Gaia, Gemini, Albacora and Casarin.

In August, all the machines started operating at full capacity, revealed Fischer. Of the four, Albacora was launched first as it did not include GPUs in its design. The powerful graphic processing units are taking longer to be supplied by manufacturers due to the high market demand.

Gaia is focused on research and was set up at the Petrobras development and innovation research center (Cenpes) in Rio de Janeiro. As previously reported by BNamericas, the contract was won by Dell last year for 76mn reais (US$15.7mn).

Gaia has processing capacity of 7.7 petaflops, equivalent to 1.5mn cellphones or 40,000 laptops, and estimated power consumption of 574kW.

Gemini is being used for seismic processing, employed by Petrobras’ exploration and production (E&P) area, while Albacora and Casarin are both focused on reservoir environments: Albacora on the engineering of reservoir simulations and Casarin on reservoir geophysical processing, according to the executive. The latter saw a return on investment (ROI) of more than eight times in just six months, Fischer said.

This year, Petrobras also went live with the 36mn-real Tatu supercomputer, applied to support its E&P operations and said to be the company’s first HPC with artificial intelligence capabilities.

French IT firm Atos, which has previously supplied most of the company's supercomputers, won the contract for Tatu. According to Fischer, Tatu was tendered first but deployed later than Dell's Gaia.

Like Gaia, Tatu was installed at Cenpes in Rio.

Including Gemini, Albacora and Casarin, Petrobras boasts nine supercomputers.

The biggest one is Pégaso, supplied by Atos, which the company claims to be the fifth most powerful in the global oil and gas industry, with processing capacity of 21 petaflops and power consumption of 1.5MW.

More:

https://www.bnamericas.com/en/news/petrobras-hires-musks-starlink-ups-supercomputing-capacity

>>22183292

I'm real

maybe not wrapped too tight

but I'm real as 80s Sybil Danning's boobs

>>22183508

I rode storms for a living

>>22183438

>Three sources told The Post that morale is down after a series of layoffs in all departments..

How cheap you think the cameras will be at the Going Out of Business Sale?

I'm thinking of doing Public Access broadcasting