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Base of 30 St Mary Axe, London, UK The world's first diagrid hyperboloid structure in Polibino, Russia MyZeil, Frankfurt, Germany CCTV Headquarters, Beijing, China. A diagrid (a portmanteau of diagonal grid) is a framework of diagonally intersecting metal, concrete, or wooden beams that is used in the construction of buildings and roofs. [1]
The world's first diagrid hyperboloid 37-meter water tower by Vladimir Shukhov, All-Russian Exposition, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, 1896 The world's first hyperboloid structure in Polibino, 2009. The Shukhov Tower in Polibino, designed in 1896 by Russian engineer and architect Vladimir Shukhov, is the world's first diagrid hyperboloid structure.
It was built in 1896 with a diagrid hanging cover (tensile gridshell – diagrid roof, Russian Empire patent No. 1894, dated March 12, 1899) and was the world's first Hyperboloid structure (in the center of the Rotunda). It is named after Vladimir Shukhov, who designed it in 1895. [1]
DiaGrid is a large, multicampus distributed research computing network utilizing the HTCondor system and centered at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana.In 2012, it included nearly 43,000 processors representing 301 teraflops of computing power.
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The Shukhov Tower on the Oka River is the world's only diagrid hyperboloid electricity pylon transmission tower. In 2009 one tower was illegally taken down to re-sell the metal. Dorton Arena: 1952 Raleigh, North Carolina United States: Hyperbolic paraboloid saddle roof on arena Maciej Nowicki: Transmitter Building of Europe 1 : 1954 Überherrn ...
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Coates is part of Purdue's distributed computing Condor flock, which is the largest publicly disclosed distributed computing system in the world and the center of DiaGrid, a nearly 43,000-processor Condor-powered distributed computing network for research involving Purdue and partners at nine other campuses.