High-tech predictions of the impacts of extreme weather
More data and the use of modern computing technology are crucial to assessing the effects of severe weather on infrastructure and finding ways to mitigate impacts
Environment
Mar 14, 2016
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Cool technology turns down the heat on high-tech equipment
Thousands of electrical components make up today's most sophisticated systems – and without innovative cooling techniques, those systems get hot. Lockheed Martin is working with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency ...
Engineering
Mar 9, 2016
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The science of jet noise
Daniel Bodony's love of science began with a love of airplanes. He worked for one of his dad's colleagues on the weekends who had an airplane. "I would mow his grass and he would let me fly," Bodony remembers fondly.
Engineering
Feb 16, 2016
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Ten ways advanced computing catalyzes science
When researchers need to compare complex new genomes, or map new regions of the Arctic in high-resolution detail, or detect signs of dark matter, or make sense of massive amounts of functional MRI data, they turn to the high-performance ...
Computer Sciences
Nov 19, 2015
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Extracting useful scientific information from social media
In the second it takes to 'like' this article, 6,000 tweets, 5,000 profile updates, 4,000 photos and 500 blogs will have been posted on multiple social media platforms. As that second extends to a minute, a day and even a ...
Computer Sciences
May 27, 2015
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Mapping Singapore's urban heat island phenomenon
Researchers in Singapore are developing a microclimatic modelling tool to prevent further deterioration of the country's urban heat island phenomenon.
Environment
May 26, 2015
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Improving energy, performance efficiency for high performance computing
Shuaiwen Leon Song, a research scientist with PNNL's High Performance Computing group, and Chao Li, a Ph.D. student with North Carolina State University's Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering who spent time as ...
Computer Sciences
Apr 8, 2015
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Big data paves the way for big building and engineering projects
A new UK start-up company is about to revolutionize the way in which civil engineering and construction companies choose where to build, by telling them what's under the ground before they start digging. The information could ...
Computer Sciences
Mar 30, 2015
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UTSA partners to deliver software tools for high performance computing
A collaboration between the UTSA Department of Computer Science and Edina, Minn.-based Silicon Informatics Inc. has yielded the delivery of a pair of highly flexible, scalable high performance computing (HPC) software tools: ...
Software
Feb 13, 2015
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Innovative new supercomputers increase nation's computational capacity and capability
Tens of thousands of researchers nationwide currently harness the power of massive supercomputers to solve research problems that cannot be answered in the lab. However, studies show this represents only a fraction of the ...
Computer Sciences
Nov 24, 2014
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