Communications of the ACM
An edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
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Breaking the Noise Barrier: Enter the Phonon Computer
Noise is a chip designer's worst enemy. But handled properly it could become a powerful ally—and usher in the age of phonon computing.
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One Goal: 10 Quadrillion Calculations
Installation has begun in Kobe, Japan, on a government-funded supercomputer project, aimed at giving Japan the world's fastest computer, the "K Computer," which...
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Powerful Supercomputer Peers Into the Origin of Life
Supercomputer simulations at the U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory are helping scientists unravel how nucleic acids could have contributed...
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Gtri Creates Cyber Technology and Information Security Laboratory
The Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) has created a new Cyber Technology and Information Security Laboratory to apply GTRI's broad expertise and systems engineering...
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Feelings By Phone
Computer scientists and psychologists at the University of Cambridge have developed EmotionSense, a system for tracking emotional behavior via smartphones using...
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Scidac Visualizations Bring Science to the Senses
The recent SciDAC 2010 conference included a visualization competition involving attendees' best scientific visualizations from simulations run on high-performance...
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Multicore May Not Be So Scary
Research suggests that the free operating system Linux will keep up with the addition of more "cores," or processing units, to computer chips.
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Researchers Generate Compelling Results on Tacc's Visualization Cluster
The Texas Advanced Computing Center's hardware-accelerated interactive visualization cluster, called Longhorn, is providing researchers with new visualization capabilities...
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Iran Thwarts Viral Attack on Nuclear Plant System: Atomic Chief
Head of Atomic Energy Organization of Iran Ali-Akbar Salehi said Wednesday that the enemy's efforts to infect Iranian nuclear systems with a computer virus have...
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Personal Fabrication
Open source 3D printers could herald the start of a new industrial revolution.
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.s. Trying to Wage Cyber Warfare Against Iran: Minister
The United States seeks to launch a cyber war against Iran in retaliation to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s remarks at the UN, says Communications and Information Technology...
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Four Organizations Join Open Cirrus Cloud Computing Test Bed
HP, Intel Corp. and Yahoo! Inc. announced on Monday (Sept. 27) that four new organizations will join Open Cirrus, a global, multiple data center, open source...
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Fujitsu Begins Shipping 'k' Computer, Japan's Next-Generation Supercomputer
Fujitsu has begun shipping the computing units for Japan's Next-Generation Supercomputer, nicknamed the "K" computer. The "K" computer is a central part of the...
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China's 'Big Hole' Marks Scale of Supercomputing Race
1,000 U.S. scientists are involved in exascale development, but China and Europe have stepped up their investment, IBM warns.
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Quantum Data Converted to Telecom Wavelengths
Using optically dense, ultra-cold clouds of rubidium atoms, researchers at Georgia Tech have made advances in three key elements needed for quantum information...
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Cyber Attacks Test Pentagon, Allies and Foes
Cyber espionage has surged against governments and companies around the world in the past year, and cyber attacks have become a staple of conflict among states...
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Malware Hits Computerized Industrial Equipment
The technology industry is being rattled by a quiet and sophisticated malicious software program that has infiltrated factory computers.
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Study: Servers Run Well Around Zero Degrees
Researchers in Finland are studying the use of outdoor air to cool data centers in northern climates. They have been running servers in a tent on a roof terrace...
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Lipscomb Cluster Performance Tops 40 Teraflops
The University of Kentucky's new high-performance computer was measured at speeds of over 40 teraflops during benchmark testing.
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