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1. Nanotubes could cause lung cancer

   (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

   ... Dr James Bonner, associate professor of environmental and molecular toxicology at NC State. The reaction began within a day of inhalation, when clusters of immune cells began collecting on the ...

2. Nvidia RealityServer moves 3D rendering to the Cloud

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   ... also supports: Collaborative mode Mixed OpenGL ray-traced rendering Video streaming compression Full MetaSL Standard CAD/DCC formats Multi OS clusters See Also Mental Images debuts iRay rendering technology ...

3. From Charles Babbage to Atari: A visit to the Computer History Museum

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   ... As my eyes adjusted, I was able to discern the figures of exhausted pilgrims paying homage to Charles Babbage and his fabled Difference Engine. Far off in the distance, dedicated acolytes clustered ...

4. Intel targets future MID market with power-conscious Moorestown

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   ... computers rather than specialized equipment. The company's current prototype "builds" a high-speed router from clusters of the Intel-based servers running open-source software. An Intel rep explained that ...

5. NASA’s Deep Impact gives clues how to discover water on distant planets

   (Space/Space Features)

   NASA’s search for extrasolar, earth-like planets is one of the most fascinating scientific projects of our time. 300 “alien worlds” have been found so far, but it remains difficult to determine whether ...

6. Google is a monster, it's true

   (Software/Software Features)

   ... chips don't support Windows 7 "XP mode" - written by Brooke Crothers from Cnet. This is part of a cluster of Windows 7 stories -  click on all 599 news articles and it shows a timeline for the 599 ...

7. NASA’s Kepler telescope captures first images

   (Space/Space Features)

   ... views focus on just one-thousandth of the full field of view. One image shows the NGC 6791 cluster of stars located about 13,000 light-years from Earth. The other image zooms in on a region containing ...

8. AMD’s fabs now on their own: GlobalFoundries

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   ... lines by bringing a second 300 mm manufacturing facility with bulk silicon capabilities online in late 2009. The Dresden cluster will be re-named Fab 1 with Module 1 initially focused on production of ...

9. Obama Truth Tracker website includes technology promises

   (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

   ... innovation clusters." Page 16, No. 310, "Establish program to convert manufacturing centers into clean technology leaders." Page 16, No. 316, "Increase the minimum wage to $9.50 an hour." Page 17, No. ...

10. 14% of SSL certificates on the Internet potentially unsafe

    (Security/Security Features)

    ... web browsers and a cluster of more than 200 commercially available game consoles” by using an advanced implementation of a strategy called collision attack. Collision attacks aimed at MD5 were first ...

11. Final lock of digital website certificates cracked

    (Security/Security Features)

    ... not secure. The claim they were able to create a rogue certification authority (CA) that is “trusted by all major web browsers and a cluster of more than 200 commercially available game consoles” by using ...

12. IBM and Harvard search for organic solar power using cloud computing

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... 2 years what would've taken 22 years to run on a regular scientific cluster," according to Alan Aspuru-Guzik of Harvard University's Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology. The software will investigate ...

13. Scientists crack possible future quantum computer age encryption

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... a 30-year old a public-key encryption algorithm and are now able to decrypt a McEliece ciphertext in just one week on a cluster of 200 computers. Eindhoven University of Technology Tanja Lange announced ...

14. Skype Messaging Surveillance found in China

    (Security/Security Features)

    ... the Golden Shield Project, or also the Great Firewall of China. The Canadian activists of Citizen Lab stumbled upon the surveillance operation last month. They stated that a cluster of eight message-logging ...

15. Abe Lincoln and Tesla to reside at NCSA in October

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... the latest edition to their supercomputing family was just getting ready to be launched.  Abe, a sustainable 61 Teraflop (90 peak) cluster comprised of 1200 Dell PowerEdge 1955s blades, housing 2400 ...

16. Nvidia Tesla powers an amazing ultrasound scanner

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... TechniScan, doctors typically expect scan results within 15-30 minutes so that they can establish a diagnosis and prescribe the necessary treatment. Five years ago, TechniScan built a 12-node cluster powered ...

17. MIT and Fraunhofer create green technology partnership

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... with the New England Energy Cluster, a group of currently 184 alternative energy-focused companies in New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Vermont.  ...

18. Intel sells optical storage assets, connects cables business

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    ... for high-performance computing clusters. The transaction is expected to close in the second quarter of this year. Emcore believes that the acquisition of the technology will result in about $45 million ...

19. IBM watercools successor of record-breaking Power6 supercomputer

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... in a 2U form factor, which means that the new Hydro-Cluster rack can house 14 Power 575 rack units for a grand total of 448 processor cores and 3.5 TB of system memory. If you're wondering about performance, ...

20. An inside view: The $20 million Intel/Microsoft multicore programming initiative

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... the locality and shared memory in multicore processors for efficiency, while resorting to distributed messaging in cluster environments, for example. I must admit that these are high-level ideas and expectations, ...

21. Inside Intel's ray tracing research

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... shown using huge cluster systems and hundreds of CPUs, networked over Ethernet. Nowadays, we can do some pretty decent ray tracing using a single machine with eight cores.   TG Daily: What technologies ...

22. Analysis: The YouTube effect - Changing the face of elections

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... USA Today/Gallup. In fact, the correlation value is an astounding 0.982. That is about as linear as it can get. Bill Richardson, Dennis Kucinich, and Joe Biden, each with 4% of the vote, are clustered ...

23. Blue Clouds: IBM to sell personal Internets

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... can be run with IBM's System z.  IBM also plans a large rack-cluster version. Blue Cloud is based on IBM’s Almaden Research Center's cloud infrastructure.  It will be an open-source ...

24. Potential boost in fuel-cell efficiency discovered

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... many 10s of minutes, the platinum was able to self-assemble into countless facets and clusters on the surface.  They're like tiny little bowls sitting side by side.  They are no longer only ...

25. Google, IBM sponsor parallel computing courses at universities

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... to participate. Google and IBM said they have dedicated a large cluster of several hundred computers that is planned to grow to more than 1600 processors to the project. Students will be able to access ...

26. Atom clusters could store thousands of movies, says IBM

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... Previously, nobody had been able to measure the magnetic anisotropy of a single atom. Down the road, the company believes that it may be possible to build structures consisting of small clusters of atoms ...

27. Tilera announces 64-core processor

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... as well as exotic computing solutions such as desktop clusters. Tilera, however, believes that it is competing in a different and "aggressively adopting" multi-core market in which it has the ...

28. DARPA Urban Challenge: Axion Racing Interview

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... about adding more consoles. “To the chagrin of our team, I’m looking at replacing all the Dell servers with a cluster of PS3s.” A reinforced car body is another area where Kehaly thinks ...

29. IBM consolidates servers into mainframes

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    In one of the largest virtualization efforts announced to date, IBM said that it will replace 3900 of its servers with just 30 mainframe systems – reducing power consumption by about 80% or enough ...

30. NCSA: A look inside one of the world's most capable supercomputer facilities

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... facing the supercomputing industry. I figured it was pretty much “lock and load”. Something like: If it worked on your 42U cluster at the office, why shouldn't it work identically on a ...

31. Peakstream intros beta stream processing platform for Windows

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... node with volume discounts being available for large cluster systems.  ...

32. The hidden potential in your graphics card: A supercomputer?

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... node for its software, but mentioned that it will provide volume discounts for large cluster systems.  ...

33. It's a 'three-peat' for IBM's BlueGene/L in the Top 500 Supercomputers list

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... achieved the coveted #1 position on the semi-annual Top 500 Supercomputers list released today. Having assimilated a cluster of 131,072 massively parallel PowerPC 440 700 MHz processors and running CNK/Linux, ...

34. TechEd 2006 Opinion: Ray Ozzie's little disruption

    (Opinion/Opinion Features)

    ... time outside our heavily wired home offices. We see another half-gigabyte being heaped on top of a graphics card, or another way for us to plug to more monitors into our clusters of four, and we project ...

35. Nvidia blitzes back with GeForce 7900, 7600 series, Quad-SLI, notebook SLI

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... high-res monitors side-by-side. But even the prospect of a cluster of four G73s cranking out the visual equivalent of quadraphonic stereo, wasn't really the big announcement today. On Tuesday, ATI set ...

36. Microsoft acquires mobile search technology

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... communications companies in Europe and North America, including Sprint, Orange and O2." Microsoft claims that the technology brings will offer "superior simplicity for users, delivering clustered results ...

37. Live Labs emphasizes the 'search' in Microsoft Research

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... of characters or a cluster of data from a database; rather than having one explicit behavior for the string and another for the cluster, a generic class can typify behavior that the runtime interpreter ...

38. Microsoft outlines supercomputing strategy

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Microsoft expands Windows into a new territory of computing: Today the company released the Beta 2 of Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003, which aims to take supercomputing "mainstream" and make high ...

39. Is there room for another processor company?

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... could compete with Intel in higher-end cluster applications one day. So, what does P. A. Semi offer? The PWRficient is said to debut as 65 nm PA6T-1682M model 200 million transistors. The chip design integrates ...

40. HP cluster platform 4000 system for weapons systems design

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

      A HP Cluster Platform 4000 system will be installed in September at the Aeronautical Systems Center (ASC) Major Shared Resource Center (MSRC) based at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio.  ...

41. Cray XD1 now available

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    ... Opetron-based supercomputer XD1. Each XD1 chassis has up to 12 AMD Operton processors. Up to 12 chassis can be clustered together in a rack. The XD1 uses Cray RapidArray Interconnect technology, based ...

42. HP powers Linux clusters

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    ... than traditional clusters. Showing a convergence between open source and mainstream enterprise technology, HP unveiled a new file system that uses the company's hardware and Linux to deliver up to 100 ...

43. Apple to build second monster

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    ... again teaming with Virginia Tech to make another high performance machine using its new 64-bit Xserve G5 computer. "Xserve, a thinner, more compact machine designed for clustering with other computers, ...

44. Apple Peels Back Xgrid Technology

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

      Apple has jumped on the grid-computing bandwagon with the development of a computational clustering technology dubbed "Xgrid". Apple has jumped on the grid-computing bandwagon with the development ...

45. IBM gets serious about 64 bits

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    ... new server based on AMD's Opteron processor, along with a new version of its DB2 database and DB2-based clustering. Hoping to accelerate the acceptance of 64-bit technology into the Linux world as well ...

46. IBM plans world's most powerful Linux supercomputer

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

      A Japanese national research laboratory has placed an order with IBM for a supercomputer cluster that, when completed, is expected to be the most powerful Linux-based computer in the world. A ...

47. Cornell University's Advanced Computing Research Center Announces Grant and Partnership to Develop M

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    ... "clustered" to partition and share the workload required for complex computations. This grant and industry partnership will double the size of Cornell Theory Center's existing supercomputing "cluster" ...

48. Silicon Nanocrystals Shine For All to See

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    ... SIDT developed silicon nanoclusters that show efficient blue and green photo-luminescence with very high quantum yields (high efficiency) at room temperature. What can they be used for? Well, some folks ...

49. CyberGuard's Firewall for VPN

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    ... your goal. Inside a computer, we have can have two or more processors working together on tasks like rendering, provided the software knows how to split up the tasks. Clustering software does basically ...

50. Web car conversion kit nears market

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    ... a 20-nanometer-thick silver-oxide film with a fine point of blue light at 515 nanometer wavelength, silver nanoclusters with as few as eight atoms are made photoactive. Longer wavelength light shined on ...