http://phys.org/ en-us Phys.org internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. Swedish researchers are leading the development of the world's first comprehensive model of the human voice, which could contribute to better voice care, voice prosthetics, talking robots and teaching opportunities. http://phys.org/news288433039.html Technology Wed, 22 May 2013 09:17:38 EST news288433039 The National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) today announced nearly $15 million in new big data fundamental research projects. These awards aim to develop new tools and methods to extract and use knowledge from collections of large data sets to accelerate progress in science and engineering research. http://phys.org/news268500566.html Technology Wed, 03 Oct 2012 16:31:14 EST news268500566 University of Oregon scientists have found a way to correctly reproduce not only the structure but also important thermodynamic quantities such as pressure and compressibility of a large, multiscale system at variable levels of molecular coarse-graining. http://phys.org/news267291374.html Physics Thu, 20 Sep 2012 05:00:01 EST news267291374 Today at the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC '12), researchers from the renowned Swiss University of Science and Technology (ETH Zurich), IBM Research - Zurich and The Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI), Switzerland's largest research center for natural and engineering sciences, received the 2012 PRACE Award. http://phys.org/news261907036.html Technology Thu, 19 Jul 2012 08:57:27 EST news261907036 A biomedical informatics researcher who tracks dangerous viruses as they spread around the globe has restructured his innovative tracking software to promote even wider use of the program around the world. http://phys.org/news256910673.html Technology Tue, 22 May 2012 13:05:15 EST news256910673 (PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers using the OLCF's resources can foresee substantial changes in their scientific application code development in the near future. http://phys.org/news248509227.html Technology Wed, 15 Feb 2012 07:20:07 EST news248509227 Vijay Pande's chemistry and structural biology group at Stanford has become known for Folding@home, a distributed computing project that borrows computing time from home computers to simulate how proteins take shape. http://phys.org/news241086086.html Technology Mon, 21 Nov 2011 08:50:01 EST news241086086 After years in the works and 15 drafts, the National Institute of Standards and Technology's (NIST) working definition of cloud computing, the 16th and final definition has been published as The NIST Definition of Cloud Computing (NIST Special Publication 800-145). http://phys.org/news238863822.html Technology Wed, 26 Oct 2011 16:03:49 EST news238863822 (PhysOrg.com) -- As part of a National Science Foundation grant, the Texas Advanced Computing Center, or TACC, from the University of Texas at Austin announced its plans to develop and support a new supercomputer they are naming Stampede. It is set to be operational in January of 2013 and will be a part of the eXtreme Digital (XD) program with the National Science Foundation and enable scientists to share computing resources, data and expertise interactively. http://phys.org/news235995014.html Electronics Fri, 23 Sep 2011 12:00:01 EST news235995014 The National Institute of Standards and Technology has published two new documents on cloud computing: the first edition of a cloud computing standards roadmap and a cloud computing reference architecture and taxonomy. Together, the documents provide guidance to help understand cloud computing standards and categories of cloud services that can be used government-wide. http://phys.org/news235211312.html Technology Wed, 14 Sep 2011 09:28:46 EST news235211312 Engineering scientists at the University of Southampton have reached above the clouds in a first-of-its-kind experiment to develop new technologies that probe the stratosphere using an unmanned vehicle. http://phys.org/news220703433.html Space & Earth Wed, 30 Mar 2011 11:50:02 EST news220703433 (PhysOrg.com) -- UT Dallas researchers have released software tools intended to help make cloud computing the standard way much computing is done. http://phys.org/news199983694.html Technology Mon, 02 Aug 2010 16:01:49 EST news199983694 Computer scientists from the University of California, San Diego broke "the terabyte barrier" - and a world record - when they sorted more than one terabyte of data in just 60 seconds. During this 2010 "Sort Benchmark" competition - the "World Cup of data sorting" - the computer scientists from the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering also tied a world record for fastest data sorting rate. They sorted one trillion data records in 172 minutes - and did so using just a quarter of the computing resources of the other record holder. http://phys.org/news199466458.html Technology Tue, 27 Jul 2010 16:21:13 EST news199466458 (PhysOrg.com) -- The core technology developed for NASA's Nebula cloud computing platform has been selected as a contributor for OpenStack, a newly-launched open source cloud computing initiative. It will pull together more than 25 companies to play a key role in driving cloud computing standards for interoperability and portability. http://phys.org/news198836133.html Technology Tue, 20 Jul 2010 09:40:01 EST news198836133 (AP) -- Microsoft Corp. is teaming up with computer makers to try to make its Windows Azure cloud computing system attractive to government and big corporate customers. http://phys.org/news198170799.html Technology Mon, 12 Jul 2010 17:20:02 EST news198170799 (PhysOrg.com) -- As computer networks become more complex and pervasive, and their development is in a state of constant flux, leaving their design and management to human intervention is becoming increasingly unfeasible. An EU-funded project has come up with an innovative, self-adaptive architecture to enable future ubiquitous networks to deal automatically with changing circumstances. http://phys.org/news197045538.html Technology Tue, 29 Jun 2010 16:10:03 EST news197045538 Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science is the latest research institution to host a site as part of Open Cirrus, a global, open-source test bed for the advancement of cloud computing research and education. http://phys.org/news185549003.html Technology Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:20:02 EST news185549003 Microsoft Corp. and the National Science Foundation (NSF) today announced an agreement that will offer individual researchers and research groups selected through NSF's merit review process free access to advanced cloud computing resources. By extending the capabilities of powerful, easy-to-use PC applications via Microsoft cloud services, the program is designed to help broaden research capabilities, foster collaborative research communities, and accelerate scientific discovery. Projects will be awarded and managed by NSF. http://phys.org/news184530735.html Technology Thu, 04 Feb 2010 19:00:02 EST news184530735 (PhysOrg.com) -- Having helped scientists study the building blocks of the universe, peer inside the human body in miniscule detail and monitor climate change, grid computing could soon be put to more mundane uses by your home or office computer. http://phys.org/news184495488.html Technology Thu, 04 Feb 2010 09:30:01 EST news184495488 Computer games have a broad appeal that transcends gender, culture, age and socio-economic status. Now, computer scientists in the US think that creating computer games, rather than just playing them could boost students' critical and creative thinking skills as well as broaden their participation in computing. They discuss details in the current issue of the International Journal of Social and Humanistic Computing. http://phys.org/news183298244.html Technology Thu, 21 Jan 2010 12:20:01 EST news183298244 (PhysOrg.com) -- European researchers have created a platform for trading computing resources that allows the selling and buying of standardised computing resources. In the process, they could make computing a utility like electricity. http://phys.org/news170346655.html Technology Mon, 24 Aug 2009 15:32:21 EST news170346655 Cloud computing is a hot topic in the technology world these days. Even if you're not a tech-phile, chances are if you've watched a lot of television or skimmed a business magazine, you've heard someone talking about cloud computing as the way of the future. While it's difficult to predict the future, a cloud computing infrastructure project developed at Argonne National Lab, called Nimbus, is demonstrating that cloud computing's potential is being realized now. http://phys.org/news161026777.html Technology Fri, 08 May 2009 18:40:12 EST news161026777