News tagged with high performance computers
Faster computational methods could simulate the power and signal integrity of next-generation electronic systems
The overall performance of modern computers and communications networks is dependent on the speed of electronic components, such as transistors and optical switches, as well as the quality of the wire network ...
Mar 29, 2012 |
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New microfluidic chip can generate microbubbles to break open cells for biochemical analysis
Scientists have made many important discoveries in biology and medicine through studying the internal contents of cells. Some have isolated or identified nucleic acids or proteins with special functions, while ...
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Mar 15, 2012 |
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Computational sprinting pushes smartphones till they're tired
(PhysOrg.com) -- Computational sprinting is a groundbreaking new approach to smartphone power and cooling that could give users dramatic, brief bursts of computing capability to improve current applications ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Feb 29, 2012 |
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Computer simulations show how key properties of nanowires change as the diameter increases
Silicon nanowires are widely recognized as candidates for use in next-generation sensors, battery electrodes and solar cells, and first-principle calculations are an important tool in the development of these ...
Feb 17, 2012 |
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EU to double investment in mansion-sized supercomputers
The EU said Wednesday it will double its investment in supercomputers, high-performance machines the size of a mansion that can cost more than 100 million euros ($130 million) each to build.
Feb 15, 2012 |
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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
Oct 09, 2011 |
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Novel high-performance hybrid system for semantic factoring of graph databases
Imagine trying to analyze all of the English entries in Wikipedia. Now imagine you've got 20 times as much information. That's the challenge scientists face when working with gigabyte data sets. Scientists ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Sep 20, 2011 |
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Method for creating single-crystal arrays of graphene developed
(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Houston researchers have developed a method for creating single-crystal arrays of the material graphene, an advance that opens the possibility of a replacement for silicon in high-performance ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jun 02, 2011 |
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Energy harvesters transform waste into electricity
Billions of dollars lost each year as waste heat from industrial processes can be converted into electricity with a technology being developed at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
May 16, 2011 |
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The peculiar nature of molecular hydrogen vibration under high pressure
Most of our Universe consists of hydrogen atoms, which are often found under extraordinarily high pressure as high as tens of millions of times the atmospheric pressure of Earth. Understanding the exotic physics ...
Jan 14, 2011 |
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Terapixel Project: Lots of Data, Expertise
How can you achieve the impossible? Easy -- as long as you have the right people and the right tools. The Terapixel project from Microsoft Research Redmond is proof positive.
Technology / Computer Sciences
Jul 19, 2010 |
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Over two billion hours served: Using Argonne's supercomputer to drive discovery and innovation
The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF), located at the Argonne National Laboratory, has run over two billion processor-hours of computations at a mind-boggling speed of over 557 trillion calculations ...
Jun 18, 2010 |
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Oak Ridge 'Jaguar' supercomputer is World's fastest
An upgrade to a Cray XT5 high-performance computing system deployed by the Department of Energy has made the "Jaguar" supercomputer the world's fastest. Located at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Jaguar is ...
Nov 16, 2009 |
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Georgia Tech wins NSF award for next-gen supercomputing
The Georgia Institute of Technology today announced its receipt of a five-year, $12 million Track 2 award from the National Science Foundation's Office of Cyberinfrastructure to lead a partnership of academic, industry and ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Oct 21, 2009 |
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Millionths of a second can cost millions of dollars: A new way to track network delays
(PhysOrg.com) -- Computer scientists have developed an inexpensive solution for diagnosing networking delays in data center networks as short as tens of millionths of seconds—delays that can lead to multi-million ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Aug 20, 2009 |
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