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China Joins Supercomputer Elite
China has become one of a handful of nations to own one of the top five supercomputers in the world. Its Tianhe-1 computer, housed at the National Super Computer...
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Petascale Tools Could Provide Deeper Insight Into Genomic Evolution
Research recently funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 aims to develop computational tools that will utilize next-generation petascale computers...
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There's No Business Like Grid Business
Scientists have embraced the computing and communications grid, but businesses have held back, concerned about complexity and security. Now a European research...
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Supercomputers With 100 Million Cores Coming By 2018
A key topic at this week's SC09 supercomputing conference, which takes place Nov. 14-20 in Portland, Ore., is how to reach the exascale plateau in supercomputing...
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Tough Choices For Supercomputing's Legacy Apps
The future of supercomputing holds several significant software challenges, writes Numerical Algorithms Group's Andrew Jones. The first challenge is the rapidly...
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Two Rival Supercomputers Duke It Out For Top Spot
A Cray supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory has regained the title of the world's most powerful supercomputer, overtaking the installation that was ranked...
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Google Launches New Programming Language: Go
Google has unveiled Go, a new programming language the company says offers the speed of working in a dynamic language such as Python and the performance and safety...
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Quantum Computer Gets Closer: Quantum Particles Pinned Down
Scientists at the Delft University of Technology were able to gain control over the environment of a quantum particle, which is a key step in the potential development...
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Spdy: An Experimental Protocol For a Faster Web
As part of the "Let's make the web faster" initiative, we are experimenting with alternative protocols to help reduce the latency of web pages. One of these experiments...
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Secret Math of Fly Eyes Could Overhaul Robot Vision
By turning the brain cell activity underlying fly eyesight into mathematical equations, researchers have found an ultra-efficient method for pulling motion patterns...
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Wi-Fi Certification Might Be Tweaked For Smart Grids
The Wi-Fi Alliance has formed a task group to determine what standards need to be modified to ensure Wi-Fi is the tool of choice for smart-grid applications. The...
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Nasa Showcases 'green' Missions at Sc09 Conference
Milestones by five NASA research centers in the fields of science, engineering, and technology will be showcased at the ACM-sponsored SC09 supercomputing conference...
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Web Security Tool Copies Apps' Moves
Scientists at Microsoft research have unveiled Ripley, a new way to secure complex Web applications by effectively cloning the user's browser and running it remotely...
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Terrorism in the Age of Technology: Biothreats And?cyber Warfare
While once considered unconventional, cyber attacks and biological warfare have become an increasing threat to security and a tactic of rising concern. Spanning...
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Now We Know Where We Stand, and It's About Time
America has seen its last Lost Generation. Thanks to an invisible armada of incessantly broadcasting satellites, collectively called the Global Positioning System...
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Rutgers Computer Scientists Work to Strengthen Online Security
Rutgers University computer scientists are developing an alternative to online security questions that is designed to be easier for legitimate users and more secure...
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Green500 Expands Coverage of Energy-Efficient Supercomputers
Virginia Tech's Green500 list is getting a refresh. Since its 2007 debut, the Green500 has ranked only the energy efficiency of the world's 500 fastest performing...
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Splitting p Search
Searching the Web could become faster for users and much more efficient for search companies if search engines were split up and distributed around the world, according...
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Nsf Awards $20 Million to Sdsc to Develop Shared-Memory Supercomputer
The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego has been awarded a five-year, $20 million grant from the U.S. National Science...
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