University of Maryland professor Uzi Vishkin believes that computer architecture needs to be redesigned in order to effectively use multicore processors. PC World From ACM TechNews | January 31, 2011
Researchers from Intel and Stanford University are collaborating on a five-year, $10 million project to advance the field of visual computing. Intel is funding...Stanford Report From ACM TechNews | January 31, 2011
Computer science has lost not only a great scientist, but an important link to the electronic computing revolution that took place in the 1940s.Leah Hoffmann From Communications of the ACM | February 1, 2011
Purdue University's Science of Information Center seeks new principles to answer the question 'What is information?'Neil Savage From Communications of the ACM | February 1, 2011
Power-saving processor algorithms have the potential to create significant energy and cost savings.Gregory Goth From Communications of the ACM | February 1, 2011
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and UC Berkeley researchers have completed the first experimental demonstration of gradient index (GRIN) plasmonics, a technology...Berkeley Lab News Center From ACM TechNews | January 27, 2011
University of South Florida researchers are studying computation that takes place in steps that are time reversible, known as reversible computing, as a way to...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | January 26, 2011
Consistent investment in high-performance computing leads to greater research competitiveness for U.S. academic institutions, according to a new study on the impact...niversity of Arkansas, Fayetteville From ACM News | January 25, 2011
The quantum computers of tomorrow might use photons to move around the data they need to make calculations, but photons are tricky to work with. Two new papers...National Institute of Standards and Technology From ACM News | January 21, 2011
In a step toward a generation of ultrafast computers, physicists have used bursts of radio waves to briefly create 10 billion quantum-entangled pairs of subatomic...The New York Times From ACM News | January 21, 2011
Brown University researchers are using Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Cray XT5 Kraken supercomputer to develop three-dimensional models of the human arterial tree...Oak Ridge National Laboratory From ACM TechNews | January 19, 2011
The state of entanglement has been created in silicon for the first time. The feat could lead to quantum computers made like ordinary computer chips.New Scientist From ACM News | January 19, 2011
With a peak performance of about 19 teraflops, the University of Wisconsin-Madison's new computing resource, the Euclid cluster, can run large-scale computing projects...University of Wisconsin-Madison From ACM TechNews | January 18, 2011
Two groups of physicists have managed to shift the quantum entanglement between two photons onto an entangled state between one photon and a quantum memor.Scientific American From ACM News | January 14, 2011
University of Tennessee, Knoxville's Jack Dongarra says that exascale supercomputers are needed to solve problems in the economy, engineering, and manufacturing...Tennessee Today From ACM TechNews | January 14, 2011
The goal of the European Exascale Software Initiative (EESI) is to help effect the migration from petascale to exascale systems over the next 10 years by bringing...HPC Wire From ACM TechNews | January 7, 2011
Many computer scientists say the High-Performance Linpack test is not the best performance measurement for the world's top supercomputers. The new Graph500 benchmark...IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | January 7, 2011
IIT-Madras will establish an interdisciplinary center of excellence for facilitating research on embedded systems, very large scale integration design, and enabling...The Hindu From ACM TechNews | January 7, 2011
Wipro Ltd. is building what will become India's fastest supercomputer for the Indian Space Research Organisation, giving the agency critical muscle to crunch...Livemint From ACM News | January 4, 2011
The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base recently unveiled a supercomputer, named the Condor Cluster, consisting of 1,760 Sony...Air Force Times From ACM TechNews | January 3, 2011