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Computing in the Quantum Dimension
A huge consortium of European researchers is solving some of the fundamental obstacles blocking real quantum computing applications in the short term. At the same...
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Does Parallel Processing Require New Languages?
The software-design community is split on the best approach for distributing their programs across a multicore architecture, and most programming languages were...
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'colossal' Magnetic Effect Under Pressure
Scientists are on the verge of understanding and controlling the colossal magnetoresistance effect (CMR), a phenomenon that is potentially up to a thousand times...
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Virtual Power Plants Could Tame Coming Grid Chaos
Fears over energy security and climate change have led to record investment in renewable energy. But a major problem threatens to stall progress towards a more...
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Computing Research That Changed the World
The Computing Community Consortium held a day-long symposium at the Library of Congress in late March titled "Computing Research That Changed the World: Reflections...
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Data Center Overload
Much of the daily material of our lives is now dematerialized and outsourced to a far-flung, unseen network. The stack of letters becomes the e-mail database on...
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Supercomputing From Clusters to Clouds
The Intrepid supercomputer is the largest installation of IBM's Blue Gene architecture to date. Part of the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility, the $77 million...
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Cloud Computing Goes Global
Three far-flung research organizations have joined the cloud computing test bed run by Hewlett-Packard, Intel, and Yahoo. The locations of these new converts —...
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Nist Team Deeply Studying Cloud Computing
The National Institute for Standards and Technology's (NIST's) interest in cloud computing goes beyond developing a definition for the concept. NIST views the...
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Simulated Black Holes Collide
Louisiana State University students and researchers have created an award-winning computer simulation of two black holes colliding and the gravitational waves the...
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Grid Enables Vector Supercomputing Environment
Tohoku University's Cyberscience Center, Osaka University's Cybermedia Center, Japan's National Institute of Informatics, and NEC Corp. recently announced the successful...
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Simulated Data Center Tests Heat Control Techniques
Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology are using a 1,100-square-foot simulated data center to optimize cooling strategies and develop new heat transfer...
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Black Hole Simulation Wins First Prize at International Competition
A team from the Louisiana State University (LSU) Center for Computation and Technology (CCT) won the top prize at the recent SCALE 2009 challenge. The grid-computing...
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Computex to Present Design Awards
Computex Taipei will present awards in five different categories on Monday (June 1) to top international innovators and designers in the field of information technology...
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Nasa Launches 'nebula' Compute Cloud
NASA is developing Nebula, an open source-based cloud computing initiative that would support space missions and as well as an overhaul of the agency's Web sites...
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Europe's Fastest Computer nveiled in Julich
The German supercomputing center in Julich has added three supercomputers, including the fastest machine in Europe. The new supercomputer at Forschungszentrum Julich...
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Computer Security Team Proposes Cloud Computing Definition
A working definition for cloud computing has been released by a team of computer security experts at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)....
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Superstumble For Japan's Supercomputer
Two private companies have recently withdrawn from a Japanese consortium established to build the world's fastest supercomputer. The Next-Generation Supercomputer...
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Micromedicine to the Rescue
Medical researchers have long dreamed of "magic bullets" that go directly where they are needed. Now micromedicine and nanotechnology are making a range of molecules...
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