News tagged with computational center

Researchers take virus-tracking software worldwide

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.

Technology / Software

created May 22, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

What will Facebook do with all its cash?

What's Facebook going to do with all that money? Depending on the price it sets for its shares, the company is on track to raise $6.1 billion to $6.8 billion in its initial public offering. Facebook's new wealth will be added ...

Technology / Business

created May 18, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

OSC's Tomko to champion high-performance computing

A senior researcher in computer science at the Ohio Supercomputer Center has been designated a Campus Champion – charged with empowering researchers and educators to advance scientific discovery by serving ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created May 01, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

SDSC's Trestles supercomputer speeds clean energy research

A team of Harvard University researchers has been allocated time on the Trestles supercomputer at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego to perform computational calculations ...

Technology / Other

created Apr 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Green 'Oakley Cluster' to double OSC computing power

Researchers using Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC) resources can now conduct even more innovative academic and industrial research by accessing Ohio's newest energy-efficient, GPU-accelerated supercomputer ...

Electronics / Hardware

created Mar 19, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Report: Tablets helping improve news consumption

Mobile technology appears to be increasing the public appetite for news but it's far from clear whether the news industry will profit from that, a study issued Monday concluded.

Technology / Internet

created Mar 19, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The origins of a torus in a galactic nucleus

(PhysOrg.com) -- Quasars are among the most energetic objects in the universe, with some of them as luminous as ten thousand Milky Way galaxies. Quasars are thought to have massive black holes at their cores, ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Mar 13, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Report on Texas fire urges firefighters to consider wind effects

(PhysOrg.com) -- Wind conditions at a fire scene can make a critical difference on the behavior of the blaze and the safety of firefighters, even indoors, according to a new report by the National Institute of Standards and ...

Technology / Other

created Feb 08, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Engineers build first sub-10-nm carbon nanotube transistor

(PhysOrg.com) -- Engineers have built the first carbon nanotube (CNT) transistor with a channel length below 10 nm, a size that is considered a requirement for computing technology in the next decade. Not ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (36) | comments 32 | with audio podcast feature

Researchers model potential of toxic algae photoreceptors

Blue-green algae is causing havoc in Midwestern lakes saturated with agricultural run-off, but researchers in a northwest Ohio lab are using supercomputers to study a closely related strain of the toxic cyanobacteria ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Jan 26, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Mass. schools team up for supercomputer center

(AP) -- At a gritty industrial site occupied a century ago by a textile mill, five universities are collaborating to install supercomputers that will recreate the start of the universe and perform other research.

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Oct 09, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Tracing an elusive killer parasite in Peru

Despite what Hollywood would have you believe, not all epidemics involve people suffering from zombie-like symptoms--some can only be uncovered through door-to-door epidemiology and advanced mathematics.

Biology / Other

created Sep 27, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Silent nozzle extinguisher does not harm hard disks

Siemens has developed a very quiet nozzle for gas extinguishing systems. The system is especially suitable for use in computer centers that store sensitive data. That’s because loud noise can cause hard ...

Technology / Engineering

created Sep 26, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Significant variations found among medical centers regarding bloodstream infections surveillance

The quality of public reporting of bloodstream infection rates among hospitals may be effected by the variation in surveillance methods, according to a study in the November 10 issue of JAMA.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 09, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Obesity rate will reach at least 42 percent, say models of social contagion

Researchers at Harvard University say America's obesity epidemic won't plateau until at least 42 percent of adults are obese, an estimate derived by applying mathematical modeling to 40 years of Framingham Heart Study data.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 04, 2010 | popularity 2.6 / 5 (5) | comments 4 | with audio podcast