http://www.physorg.com/ en-us Physorg.com internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. At the 2009 Supercomputing Conference in Portland, Oregon, the high-performance computer QPACE (QCD Parallel Computing on the Cell) was recognized today as the most energy-efficient supercomputer in the world. http://www.physorg.com/news177944567.html Electronics Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:20:02 EST news177944567 (PhysOrg.com) -- Over the next few months, a consortium that includes the University of Chicago will establish FutureGrid, a collaborative next-generation system for experimental scientific supercomputing. http://www.physorg.com/news177674549.html Technology Tue, 17 Nov 2009 10:03:28 EST news177674549 An upgrade to a Cray XT5 high-performance computing system deployed by the Department of Energy has made the "Jaguar" supercomputer the world's fastest. Located at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Jaguar is the scientific research community's most powerful computational tool for exploring solutions to some of today's most difficult problems. The upgrade, funded with $19.9 million under the Recovery Act, will enable scientific simulations for exploring solutions to climate change and the development of new energy technologies. http://www.physorg.com/news177608722.html Electronics Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:30:02 EST news177608722 Very tiny wires, called nanowires, made from such metals as silver and gold, may play a crucial role as electrical or mechanical switches in the development of future-generation ultrasmall nanodevices. http://www.physorg.com/news176047225.html Nanotechnology Thu, 29 Oct 2009 22:00:02 EST news176047225 For years scientists have struggled with the difficult physics of inertial confinement fusion. This is the attempt to compress a target capsule containing isotopes of hydrogen with high-powered lasers to high enough pressure and temperature to initiate fusion burn. http://www.physorg.com/news175958305.html Physics Wed, 28 Oct 2009 20:20:01 EST news175958305 Supporting Los Alamos National Laboratory's role in the international Center for HIV/AIDS Vaccine Immunology (CHAVI) consortium, researchers are using the Roadrunner supercomputer to analyze vast quantities of genetic sequences from HIV infected people in the hope of zeroing in on possible vaccine target areas. http://www.physorg.com/news175872209.html Medicine & Health Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:40:01 EST news175872209 Understanding dark energy is the number one issue in explaining the universe, according to Salman Habib, of the Laboratory's Nuclear and Particle Physics, Astrophysics and Cosmology group. http://www.physorg.com/news175787311.html Physics Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:00:01 EST news175787311 The world's fastest supercomputer, Roadrunner, at Los Alamos National Laboratory has completed its initial "shakedown" phase doing accelerated petascale computer modeling and simulations of a variety of unclassified, fundamental science projects. http://www.physorg.com/news175781501.html Electronics Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:13:49 EST news175781501 The Georgia Institute of Technology today announced its receipt of a five-year, $12 million Track 2 award from the National Science Foundation's Office of Cyberinfrastructure to lead a partnership of academic, industry and government experts in the development and deployment of an innovative and experimental high-performance computing (HPC) system. http://www.physorg.com/news175321221.html Technology Wed, 21 Oct 2009 05:22:06 EST news175321221 (PhysOrg.com) -- The 500-teraFLOPS Advanced Simulation and Computing program's Sequoia Initial Delivery System (Dawn), an IBM machine of the same lineage as BlueGene/L, has immediately proved itself useful as several initial science results demonstrated ground-breaking science, enhanced code performance, and some of the highest resolution, largest simulations ever run in their respective scientific field. http://www.physorg.com/news173548668.html Electronics Wed, 30 Sep 2009 17:10:01 EST news173548668 A new project at Idaho National Laboratory and Brookhaven National Laboratory will improve the way scientists model the inner workings of nuclear reactors. http://www.physorg.com/news173025268.html Physics Fri, 25 Sep 2009 01:40:01 EST news173025268 Saudi Arabia was on Wednesday to launch a new hi-tech mixed-sex university on the Red Sea coast aimed at catapulting the kingdom into the forefront of global technological research. http://www.physorg.com/news172926089.html Technology Wed, 23 Sep 2009 12:50:01 EST news172926089 (PhysOrg.com) -- Encouraged by the success of grid computing in Europe, scientists there set out to help their Latin American colleagues develop grid capability. The result today is a thriving trans-Atlantic collaboration. http://www.physorg.com/news171790015.html Technology Thu, 10 Sep 2009 08:27:31 EST news171790015 Leveraging lightning-fast technology already familiar to many from the micro storage world of digital cameras, thumb drives and laptop computers, the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego today unveiled a "super-sized" version - a "flash" memory-based supercomputer that accelerates investigation of a wide range of data-intensive science problems. http://www.physorg.com/news171094132.html Electronics Wed, 02 Sep 2009 07:30:01 EST news171094132 A $30 million National Science Foundation grant will enable the University of Chicago to expand and extend until 2011 the operation of TeraGrid, a national system of interconnected supercomputers devoted to leading-edge scientific discovery and science and technology education. http://www.physorg.com/news170945731.html Technology Mon, 31 Aug 2009 13:56:07 EST news170945731 Scientists working collaboratively, at the same time, but in different locations around the world, can now do so thanks to ultra-high-speed, broadband networks and special software developed as part of a National Science Foundation-funded program called the "OptIPuter." http://www.physorg.com/news170599723.html Technology Thu, 27 Aug 2009 13:49:20 EST news170599723 Srinivas Aluru recently stepped between the two rows of six tall metal racks, opened up the silver doors and showed off the 3,200 computer processor cores that power Cystorm, Iowa State University's second supercomputer. http://www.physorg.com/news170073901.html Electronics Fri, 21 Aug 2009 12:00:01 EST news170073901 The first black holes in the universe had dramatic effects on their surroundings despite the fact that they were small and grew very slowly, according to recent supercomputer simulations carried out by astrophysicists Marcelo Alvarez and Tom Abel of the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, jointly located at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University, and John Wise, formerly of KIPAC and now of NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. http://www.physorg.com/news169122363.html Space & Earth Mon, 10 Aug 2009 11:26:45 EST news169122363 The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego, today officially launched the Triton Resource, an integrated, data-intensive computing system primarily designed to support UC San Diego and UC researchers. http://www.physorg.com/news168716172.html Electronics Wed, 05 Aug 2009 18:50:01 EST news168716172 (PhysOrg.com) -- If you wanted to perform a single run of a current model of the explosion of a star on your home computer, it would take more than three years just to download the data. In order to do cutting-edge astrophysics research, scientists need a way to more quickly compile, execute and especially visualize these incredibly complex simulations. http://www.physorg.com/news168188994.html Technology Thu, 30 Jul 2009 17:00:01 EST news168188994 The newest supercomputer in town is almost 15 times faster than its predecessor and ready to take on problems in areas such as climate science, hydrogen storage and molecular chemistry. The $21.4 million Chinook supercomputer was built by HP, tested by a variety of researchers, and has now been commissioned for use by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and the Department of Energy. http://www.physorg.com/news167912444.html Electronics Mon, 27 Jul 2009 11:21:17 EST news167912444 A supercomputer named Novo-G described by its lead designer as likely the most powerful computer of its kind in the world became operational this week at the University of Florida. http://www.physorg.com/news167579826.html Technology Thu, 23 Jul 2009 15:10:01 EST news167579826 In an effort to achieve energy-aware computing, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH), and IBM today announced plans to build a first-of-a-kind water-cooled supercomputer that will directly repurpose excess heat for the university buildings. The innovative system, dubbed Aquasar, is expected to decrease the carbon footprint of the system by up to 85% and estimated to save up to 30 tons of CO2 per year, compared to a similar system using today`s cooling technologies. http://www.physorg.com/news164996567.html Electronics Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:23:27 EST news164996567 GridFTP, a protocol developed by researchers at Argonne National Laboratory, has been used to transfer unprecedented amounts of data over the Department of Energy's (DOE) Energy Sciences Network (ESnet), which provides a reliable, high-performance communications infrastructure to facilitate large-scale, collaborative science endeavors. http://www.physorg.com/news164554181.html Technology Thu, 18 Jun 2009 16:30:01 EST news164554181 Scientists for decades have been hunting for ways to harness the enormous force of the sun and stars to supply energy here on Earth. The National Ignition Facility at the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory may spark the light at the end of the tunnel. http://www.physorg.com/news162827599.html Physics Fri, 29 May 2009 14:53:56 EST news162827599 A new supercomputer with the power of 50,000 home PCs -- the fastest in Europe and the third worldwide -- was unveiled on Tuesday in Germany. http://www.physorg.com/news162550144.html Electronics Tue, 26 May 2009 09:50:12 EST news162550144 (AP) -- Japanese computer maker Fujitsu Ltd. said Wednesday that it has successfully developed the world's fastest supercomputer processing unit with more than twice the speed of the current leader. http://www.physorg.com/news161600187.html Electronics Fri, 15 May 2009 09:56:53 EST news161600187 Japan's ailing IT giant NEC Corp. said Thursday that it would withdraw from a government-backed supercomputer project as part of its efforts to cut costs during the economic slump. http://www.physorg.com/news161507489.html Technology Thu, 14 May 2009 08:12:04 EST news161507489 (PhysOrg.com) -- Cornell scientists have downloaded and analyzed nearly 35 million Flickr photos taken by more than 300,000 photographers from around the globe, using a supercomputer at the Cornell Center for Advanced Computing (CAC). http://www.physorg.com/news160160283.html Technology Tue, 28 Apr 2009 17:58:28 EST news160160283 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 U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory. Though Intrepid is one of the fastest and most energy-efficient computers in the world, researchers at Argonne's Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF) are continually looking for ways to further reduce the power needed to operate the machine. http://www.physorg.com/news158943764.html Technology Tue, 14 Apr 2009 16:03:07 EST news158943764