Posts Tagged ‘supercomputer’

Fastest-ever data transfer: 186 Gbps

CALTECH (US) — Researchers have set a new world record for data transfer, helping to usher in the next generation of high-speed network technology. Continue…

Thursday, December 15, 2011 11:18 - 3 Comments

Science & Technology - Sep 20, 2011 12:34 - 0 Comments

Computer ‘reads’ news to predict conflicts

U. ILLINOIS (US) — By analyzing the overall tone and geographic references of large amounts of global news media, supercomputers could help forecast human behavior. (more…)

Science & Technology - Sep 19, 2011 12:09 - 0 Comments

How the Milky Way got its spiral

U. PITTSBURGH (US) — The Milky Way’s spiral arms began forming after an epic collision with the Sagittarius Dwarf galaxy, according to supercomputer simulations. (more…)

Science & Technology - Sep 19, 2011 10:50 - 0 Comments

Computers uncover new chemical bond

U. ILLINOIS (US) — Computer modeling has helped chemists identify a previously unknown type of chemical bond. (more…)

Science & Technology - Jul 12, 2011 14:49 - 0 Comments

Supercomputing in the cloud (from an iPad)

RUTGERS (US) — A team of experts created a massive virtual supercomputer cloud capable of easily solving the toughest computing tasks. And they can operate it from an iPad. (more…)

Science & Technology - May 31, 2011 15:51 - 0 Comments

How carbon-14 lives long and prospers

IOWA STATE (US) — Thirty million process hours on the Jaguar supercomputer was enough to explain carbon-14′s long, slow decay and how it is able to accurately date relics as far back as 60,000 years. (more…)

Science & Technology - Mar 1, 2011 10:57 - 0 Comments

Supercomputer in race for top spot

U. FLORIDA (US) — A supercomputer named Novo-G is challenging one in China for the honor of being called the world’s fastest and can already perform some science applications more quickly and more efficiently. (more…)

Science & Technology - Nov 12, 2010 14:38 - 2 Comments

See what the Webb telescope will see

U. ILLINOIS (US) — Scientists have turned to supercomputers to get a glimpse at the sights NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope—the largest space-based observatory ever constructed—will reveal. (more…)

Science & Technology - Oct 20, 2010 13:36 - 0 Comments

Halting outbreaks before they hit

U. ILLINOIS (US) — A new biosurveillance program is expected to catch illness outbreaks and develop strategies to address them before they happen. (more…)

Science & Technology - Sep 20, 2010 8:43 - 0 Comments

Supercomputers with a driver’s license?

YALE (US)— Researchers have developed a supercomputer based on the human visual system, mimicking its neural network to quickly interpret the world around it. (more…)

Earth & Environment - Jun 9, 2010 15:08 - 0 Comments

Using supercomputers to clean up coal

STANFORD / U. TEXAS-AUSTIN (US)—Pollution control devices known as scrubbers, installed to restrict the amount of nitrogen oxide and sulfur dioxide release from coal-fired power plants, may have helped to reduce acid rain, but they haven’t made those plants safe. (more…)

Earth & Environment - May 25, 2010 11:40 - 0 Comments

Computer model shows speeding mantle

UC DAVIS (US)—The Earth’s mantle flows far more rapidly around a sinking tectonic plate than previously thought, according to new computer modeling. The findings could change the way that we think about plate tectonics and the amount of energy available for earthquakes. (more…)

Earth & Environment - Apr 21, 2010 17:23 - 3 Comments

Global weirding: It’s getting hot in here

U. ILLINOIS (US)—Global temperatures of the last decade are higher than they have been in more than 2,000 years—and manmade emissions from heat-trapping gases are largely responsible, according to climate expert Donald Wuebbles. (more…)

Science & Technology - Apr 19, 2010 15:44 - 0 Comments

Supercomputer built to ‘run’ like a cat

U. MICHIGAN (US)—A cat can recognize a face faster and more efficiently than a supercomputer. That’s one reason a feline brain is the model for a biologically inspired computer project. (more…)

Science & Technology - Feb 9, 2010 13:22 - 2 Comments

One step closer to quantum computing

PRINCETON (US)—Physicist Jason Petta may have overcome a major hurdle to designing and constructing a radically new kind of quantum computer. He’s figured out how to manipulate the single electrons that very likely will constitute the new machines’ processing components or “qubits.” (more…)

Science & Technology - Feb 3, 2010 12:55 - 0 Comments

Simulated galaxies resemble real ones

WASHINGTON (US)—Using millions of hours on supercomputers, researchers have run simulations of galaxy formation and produced dwarf galaxies very much like those observed today by satellites and large telescopes around the world. (more…)

Science & Technology - Jan 28, 2010 14:27 - 0 Comments

Nuclear core reaction in graphic detail

U. CHICAGO (US)—A new computer algorithm allows scientists to view nuclear fission in much finer detail than ever before. (more…)

Science & Technology - Jan 13, 2010 16:51 - 2 Comments

Dealing with a universe of data

U. CHICAGO—Modeling the evolution of the universe is no mean feat, not only because of the complex mathematics involved, but also because of the sheer amount of data that is generated from a working model of—well, the universe. (more…)

Health & Medicine - Jun 3, 2009 16:20 - 0 Comments

Supercomputer takes on super flu

A view of the drug buried in the binding pocket of the A/H1N1 neuraminidase protein, a mushroom-shaped projection on the surface of the influenza virus that plays a crucial role in the virus’ reproductive cycle.