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An edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
The Sequoia project, commissioned by the U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), aims to build the world's first 20 petaflop...HPC Wire From ACM TechNews | May 5, 2009
Intel Research Berkeley scientists Byung-Gon Chun and Petros Maniatis have developed CloneCloud, a cloud computing-based clone of smartphones that can handle large...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | May 4, 2009
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has committed to releasing a record amount of supercomputing time--1.3 billion processor hours--starting in 2010, giving scientific...Wired News From ACM TechNews | May 1, 2009
Last summer the U.S. Department of Energy's $120 million IBM Roadrunner supercomputer at Los Alamos National Laboratory was declared the fastest computer in the...Webwereld From ACM News | May 1, 2009
Low-cost sensors, clever software, and computing firepower are key ingredients of an emerging computing trend called smart infrastructure — efficient and environmentally...The New York Times From ACM News | April 30, 2009
A team of more than 24 scholars and technicians at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) has created the Digital Karnak, a three-dimensional (3D) simulation...CLA Today From ACM TechNews | April 28, 2009
IBM is developing software designed to compete against human "Jeopardy!" contestants, which, if successful, could mark a major advancement in artificial intelligence...The New York Times From ACM TechNews | April 27, 2009
The Blue Brain project is focused on reverse-engineering mammal brains from laboratory data and to develop a computer model down to the level of the molecules that...BBC News From ACM TechNews | April 24, 2009
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated an error suppression technique that they say makes multistep quantum...EE Times From ACM TechNews | April 24, 2009
University of Western Australia (UWA) Ph.D. candidate Chris Harris is investigating the use of graphics processing units (GPUs) in radio astronomy data processing...ScienceAlert (Australia) From ACM TechNews | April 24, 2009
University of Maryland computer science researchers recently received a grant from the National Science Foundation Cluster Exploratory Program (CluE) to fund research...Newswise From ACM News | April 24, 2009
Researchers supported by the National Science Foundation have achieved a breakthrough in adding ferroelectric materials to silicon, without intervening reaction...National Science Foundation From ACM TechNews | April 22, 2009
A group of pioneers in the security field, whose work in encryption is used to protect Internet data and communications every day, spoke recently about the state...ZDNet Asia From ACM News | April 23, 2009
The University of Washington will apply cloud computing to analyze climate simulation results and astronomical images. The university has won three recent awards...Newswise From ACM News | April 16, 2009
Technology companies are embracing self-healing technology, a computing strategy that could have a major impact on the data center and the desktop. IBM uses self...Kirk L. Kroeker From ACM News | April 14, 2009
Cooling a supercomputer consumes more electricity than is required to run the machine, even machines as powerful as the IBM Blue Gene/P — called Intrepid — at the...Newswise From ACM News | April 15, 2009
Wyoming Gov. Dave Freudenthal has signed a bill to contribute approximately $40 million to the National Center for Atmospheric Research's new supercomputer project...Wyoming Business Report From ACM TechNews | April 13, 2009
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) theorists have demonstrated that a type of software operation, believed to be a solution to the fundamental...National Institute of Standards and Technology From ACM TechNews | April 10, 2009
The Global Intelligent Utility Network Coalition, which is composed of IBM and several utility companies, has passed control of their Smart Grid Maturity Model...Information Week From ACM TechNews | April 13, 2009
Yahoo! has expanded its partnerships with top U.S. universities to advance cloud computing research. The University of California at Berkeley, Cornell University...Yahoo! Finance From ACM TechNews | April 10, 2009