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NCAR installs 76-teraflop supercomputer for critical research on climate change, severe weather

May 08, 2008 | User rating: 1 / 5 after 1 vote(s) | pda version

The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) has taken delivery of a new IBM supercomputer that will advance research into severe weather and the future of Earth's climate. The supercomputer, known ...


HP labs director seeks more help from academia

May 07, 2008 | pda version

(AP) -- Trying to boost the output of its research labs, Hewlett-Packard Co. wants to get more help from scientists in universities.


Longtime IBM executives Donofrio, Zeitler to retire

May 05, 2008 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 1 vote(s) | pda version

(AP) -- Two longtime IBM Corp. executives are retiring, prompting the technology company to reshuffle its top ranks.


Bringing down the language barrier... automatically

May 02, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 12 vote(s) | pda version

Progress being made by European researchers on automatic speech-to-speech translation technology could help the EU tackle one of the biggest remaining boundaries to internal trade, mobility and the free exchange of information ...


Stanford, tech giants team up to enable software for parallel computers

May 01, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 3 vote(s) | pda version

Stanford and many of the biggest companies in computing will announce Friday, May 2, a joint effort to address a major missed opportunity in information technology: the dearth of software that can harness the parallelism ...


Sandia researcher examines the physics of carbon nanotubes

May 01, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 8 vote(s) | pda version

Carbon nanotubes, described as the reigning celebrity of the advanced materials world, are all the rage. Recently researchers at Rice University and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute used them to make the “blackest ...


IBM increases dividend 25 percent, reasserting confidence

Apr 29, 2008 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 1 vote(s) | pda version

(AP) -- IBM Corp. increased its dividend payout 25 percent Tuesday, reflecting the technology company's confidence that it can thrive even with an uncertain economy.


Cray picks Intel for supercomputers

Apr 28, 2008 | User rating: 3 / 5 after 2 vote(s) | pda version

(AP) -- Intel Corp. is ratcheting up the competition with smaller rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc. by teaming up with supercomputer maker Cray Inc., which for the past six years has used only AMD chips in its high-performance ...


Early human populations evolved separately for 100,000 years

Apr 24, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 9 vote(s) | pda version

A team of Genographic researchers and their collaborators have published the most extensive survey to date of African mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA). Over 600 complete mtDNA genomes from indigenous populations across the continent ...


Study says near extinction threatened people

Apr 24, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 35 vote(s) | pda version

(AP) -- Human beings may have had a brush with extinction 70,000 years ago, an extensive genetic study suggests. The human population at that time was reduced to small isolated groups in Africa, apparently because of drought, ...


MU psychologists demonstrate simplicity of working memory

Apr 23, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 5 vote(s) | pda version

A mind is a terrible thing to waste, but humans may have even less to work with than previously thought. University of Missouri researchers found that the average person can keep just three or four things in their “working ...


IBM Debuts New Category of Server for Web 2.0 Computing

Apr 23, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 3 vote(s) | pda version

IBM introduced today an entirely new category of server uniquely designed to address the technology needs of companies that use Web 2.0-style computing to operate massive data centers with tens of thousands of servers.


Researchers Move Closer To New Class of Memory

Apr 11, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 85 vote(s) | pda version

Computer memory that combines the high performance and reliability of flash with the low cost and high capacity of the hard disk drive could be closer than you think, thanks to a team of IBM scientists.


Beyond chess: Deep green models rapid change for combat commanders

Apr 11, 2008 | User rating: 3.8 / 5 after 8 vote(s) | pda version

The USC Information Sciences Institute is playing a $7.6 million part in a DARPA research effort called Deep Green aimed at creating a system that can do so, one that might help future combat commanders in ...


IBM Turns on the Water for Energy-Efficient Supercomputer

Apr 08, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 6 vote(s) | pda version

IBM today introduced a new supercomputer powered by one of the world’s fastest microprocessors and cooled by an innovative water system.


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