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Nine Prace Prototypes Are Available For Testing
Researchers from academia and industry have until April 11, 2010, to submit applications for an opportunity to test prototypes of potential future high-performance...
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Expert: Bracket Seedings Irrelevant After Sweet Sixteen Round
University of Illinois computer science professor Sheldon Jacobson recently completed a study on the NCAA's men basketball tournament showing that picking the higher...
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Asian Health Research Gets the Grid Treatment
Biomedical and health researchers discussed how they were using grid computing at the recent International Symposium on Grid Computing in Taipei, Taiwan.
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How to Build a Superluminal Computer
Vienna University of Technology physicists Volkmar Putz and Karl Svozil have devised a way to process information that exceeds the speed of light.
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International Deal Struck in Race to Build Quantum Computer
Researchers at the University of Waterloo's Institute for Quantum Computing and Singapore's Centre for Quantum Technologies have agreed to collaborate to build...
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Group Seeks to Open Source Data-Center Design
The recently announced Open Source Data Center Initiative is looking to apply open source principles to the design and construction of data centers.
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Educating Elite Hackers
It started with Michael Coppola taking things apart at the age of five: the remote control, his mother's house lamps, the family's VCR. He was curious about how...
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Conquering the Chaos in Modern, Multiprocessor Computers
A group of computer scientists have found a way to tame multiprocessor computers, which behave in wildly unpredictable ways even as they become widespread in the...
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Quantum on Quantum
Researchers at Harvard University and Australia's University of Queensland have designed and constructed a quantum computer capable of simulating and calculating...
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Aerial Surveillance Technology Could Keep Soldiers Safer
Cranfield University researchers have developed an autonomous computer framework that enables one operator to control multiple unmanned aerial vehicles from a...
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Cloud to Tackle Trillion-Euro Money Laundering Problem
Money laundering is estimated at €1 trillion ($1.36 trillion) worldwide—a huge problem that protects criminal activity. Now European researchers are using cloud...
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China's Fastest Supercomputer to Have China-Made Chips
China's fastest super computer "Tianhe-1," is to be equipped this year with China-made central processing unit (CPU) chips, replacing the only part of the computer...
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Project Peppher Announced
The European PErformance Portability and Programmability of Heterogeneous many-core aRchitectures (PEPPHER) project is developing a methodology and architecture...
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Egi.eu to Coordinate European Scientific Computing Grids
A new organization named the European Grid Initiative (EGI.eu) will coordinate a European-wide grid computing infrastructure that will enable scientists to share...
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One Sensor to Do the Work of Many
U.S. Pentagon scientists have developed the Autonomous Real-Time Ground Ubiquitous Surveillance Imaging System (ARGUS-IS), a sensor system that can spot and track...
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What's Next For High-Performance Computing?
The fusion of high-performance computing (HPC) and high-performance data could potentially result in the generation of robust systems that are at least one order...
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Nsf-Supported Researchers Gain Access to Microsoft's Azure Services Platform
The National Science Foundation has announced a memorandum of understanding with Microsoft Corp. whereby Microsoft will provide NSF supported-researchers access...
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Cloud Technology to Combat Cancer
Cloud services provided over grid technology are helping to treat cancer patients, thanks to an enormous effort by European researchers working closely with industry...
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Security Key to Unlocking Cloud Potential
The issue of security is holding back its full potential of cloud computing. This was the gist of the keynote message presented Tuesday (March 2) by Art Coviello...
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