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Rambus, Nvidia sign patent licensing deal

Technology licensing company Rambus Inc. said Wednesday it has signed a licensing agreement with chip maker Nvidia Corp. to settle a long-running patent dispute.

Technology / Business

created Feb 08, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 1

New NVIDIA Tesla GPUs Reduce Cost Of Supercomputing By A Factor Of 10

NVIDIA Corporation today unveiled the Tesla 20-series of parallel processors for the high performance computing (HPC) market, based on its new generation CUDA processor architecture, codenamed "Fermi".

Electronics / Hardware

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (6) | comments 1




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Scientists invent revolutionary chipset for high-speed wireless data transfer

Here is a new microchip that can transfer data the size of 80 MP3 song files (or 250 megabytes) wirelessly between mobile devices, in the flick of a second. Or how about transferring a typical 2-hour, 8-gigabyte DVD movie ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created May 24, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 4

Escape response of small fish tested using a supercomputer

(Phys.org) -- Small fish bend themselves into a 'C' shape before they flee from predators. Observations have suggested that this shape helps them to abruptly put the greatest distance possible between themselves ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created May 02, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researcher tests performance of diverse HPC architectures

Surveying the wide range of parallel system architectures offered in the supercomputer market, an Ohio State University researcher recently sought to establish some side-by-side performance comparisons.

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Mar 29, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Supercomputing the difference between matter and antimatter

(PhysOrg.com) -- An international collaboration of scientists has reported a landmark calculation of the decay process of a kaon into two pions, using breakthrough techniques on some of the world's fastest ...

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 29, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (13) | comments 9 | with audio podcast

Graphene and DNA: 'Wonder material' may hold key to fast, inexpensive genetic sequencing

(PhysOrg.com) -- Look at the tip of that old pencil in your desk drawer, and what you'll see are layers of graphite that are thousands of atoms thick. Use the pencil to draw a line on a piece of paper, and ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Mar 23, 2012 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Scale-out processors: Bridging the efficiency gap between servers and emerging cloud workloads

Cloud computing has emerged as a dominant computing platform providing billions of users world-wide with online services. The software applications powering these services, commonly referred to as scale-out workloads and ...

Electronics / Hardware

created Mar 21, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

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

ORNL completes first phase of Titan supercomputer transition

Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Jaguar supercomputer has completed the first phase of an upgrade that will keep it among the most powerful scientific computing systems in the world.

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created Feb 29, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Climate scientists compute in concert

Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) are sharing computational resources and expertise to improve the detail and performance of a scientific application code that is the product of one of the ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Feb 28, 2012 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Mysterious electron acceleration explained

A mysterious phenomenon detected by space probes has finally been explained, thanks to a massive computer simulation that was able to precisely align with details of spacecraft observations. The finding could ...

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 27, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (12) | comments 18 | with audio podcast


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