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Warp Power May Soon Add Extra Life to Your Cell Phone and iPod Batteries

Technology / Engineering

created Apr 14, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Roman Lysecky, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at The University of Arizona, has been awarded a grant of more than $400,000 by the National Science Foundation to develop high-performance customizable ...





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From Terabytes to Petabytes: Computer Scientists Develop New Hybrid Database System

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Aug 26, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (11) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- As the amounts of data being stored by databases around the world enters the realm of the petabyte (the amount of data stored in a mile-high stack of CD-ROM disks), efficient data management is becoming more ...


Intel Launches Core i7 -- Fastest Processor on the Planet

Intel Launches Core i7 -- Fastest Processor on the Planet

Electronics / Hardware

created Nov 18, 2008 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (29) | comments 1

Intel Corporation introduced its most advanced desktop processor ever, the Intel Core i7 processor. The Core i7 processor is the first member of a new family of Nehalem processor designs and is the most sophisticated ...


Engineering researchers: Novo-G supercomputer fastest of its type in world

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Jul 23, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (13) | comments 3

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.


New project aims to boost performance on every chip

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created Apr 07, 2009 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), as part of its Architecture Aware Compiler Environment Program, has awarded Rice University $16 million to develop a new set of tools that can improve the performance ...


New Iowa State supercomputer, Cystorm, unleashes 28.16 trillion calculations per second

Cystorm supercomputer unleashes 28.16 trillion calculations per second

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created Aug 21, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (9) | comments 8

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 ...


Robots perform Shakespeare to learn how to save people

Other Sciences / Other

created Nov 13, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Flying robot fairies are joining human actors in Texas A&M University?s production of William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, which runs through Sunday (Nov. 15) in the Rudder Forum.


Seagate Unveils World's Thinnest 2.5-Inch Hard Drive For Slim Laptop Computers

Seagate Unveils World's Thinnest 2.5-Inch Hard Drive For Slim Laptop Computers

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created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Seagate Technology today announced the Momentus Thin drive, the world's thinnest 2.5-inch hard disk drive for ultra-portable and entry-level laptops, high-end netbooks, backup devices and consumer electronics. ...


The Future is Exascale

HP Labs award will lay groundwork for next generation computers

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created Sep 17, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

While most personal computers today can process a few hundred thousand calculations per second, computer scientists are laying the groundwork for exascale machines that will process more than a million trillion ...


Samsung Now Producing 256GB Solid State Drives

Samsung Now Producing 256GB Solid State Drives

Electronics / Hardware

created Nov 21, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (39) | comments 4

Samsung Electronics announced today that it has begun mass producing 256 gigabyte (GB) solid state drives for use in notebooks and desktop PCs. With the addition of the high-speed 256GB drive, Samsung now ...


More than powerful: German research computer QPACE is the most energy efficient in the world

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created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

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.



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