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1. Small circuit boards hang on DNA scaffolds

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Sunday, 16 August 2009

   Scientists at IBM are experimenting with using DNA molecules as scaffolding for millions of carbon nanotubes in an attempt to push Moore's Law below the 22 nanometer level.Scientists at IBM are experimenting ...

2. Intel to play WiMax vs. 3G game as capacity vs. coverage

   (Networking/Networking Features)

   Thursday, 21 May 2009

   ... interest in getting the technology out as quickly as possible to sell hardware and services into the market. The marketing strategy seems to be unfolding now.Santa Clara (CA) - From a consumer’s point ...

3. UPDATED: Live coverage of Madagascar political crisis tweeted unto world

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   Monday, 16 March 2009

   ... these unfolding events, some posts occurred within minutes of each other, which type of news would you rather follow for unfolding world events?In my opinion, I believe there is some future for a website ...

4. AMD steps up Folding@Home rivalry with Nvidia

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Friday, 20 February 2009

   AMD’s graphics team today released a new version of its Catalyst driver package, introducing Multi GPU support for the prestigious Folding@Home distributed computing project. Markham (ON) – AMD’s graphics ...

5. Stanford goes fully molecular with OpenMM

   (Software/Software Features)

   Friday, 06 February 2009

   ... email simbiosfeedback@stanford.edu. OpenMM is part of Simbios's protein folding research effort and is supported by the National Institutes of Health through the NIH Roadmap for Medical Research Grant ...

6. IBM brings cloud computing to universities

   (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

   Monday, 26 January 2009

   ... to slow the progression of serious illnesses by studying drug absorption rates and protein structure folding of a person's DNA once introduced to a certain type of medication." Finally, in Japan, IBM ...

7. Some odd 2009 predictions, including a $900 iPhone

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

   Thursday, 08 January 2009

   ... and folding keyboard that will be priced in the $899 range. Now that would be interesting. I wonder how many would buy that type of iPhone netbook for $900? Tinkers are also making predictions regarding ...

8. ATI Stream driver now available for download

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Wednesday, 10 December 2008

   ... for the Folding@Home application, 3DMark Vantage DX10 benchmark and a range of games, including Call of Duty: World at War, Crysis, Crysis Warhead, Devil May Cry 4, Fallout 3, Far Cry 2, FEAR, Hellgate: ...

9. Rumor round-up: New Apple laptops

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   Friday, 10 October 2008

   ... casing with lasers and water-jet cutting, with no folding or bending that creates weak spots or microfolds that decrease material durability. Design-wise, Brick should result in an attractive, screw-free ...

10. Nvidia expands physics support with huge WHQL driver update

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 29 September 2008

    ... Intel D5400XS motherboards as well as Nvidia’s 3D Stereo technology. The company also promotes support for the Folding@home distributed computing application, which has become a differentiator for the ...

11. High-end coprocessors: An overview

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 17 September 2008

    ... rates are around 1%.  This is based on a sampling of approximately 500 GPGPU users on Folding@Home.  A study carried out showed that approximately 1% of the computations carried out by Nvidia ...

12. Microsoft says Apple is Dijon mustard and extra cheese

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Friday, 12 September 2008

    ... still folding his The Conquistador shoes from the first video, and the grandmother at the end, "Yup, like I told you, you've got a blown head gasket." Adding up everything, we always came back to thinking ...

13. Nvidia GPUs approach 1.5 PFlops in Folding@Home project

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Tuesday, 26 August 2008

      Nvidia GPUs have become the leading processing platform within Folding@Home and continue to grow quickly: GeForce Processors are likely to become the first technology to break the 1.5 PFlops barrier. ...

14. Break dancing Jen-Hsun Huang kicks off NVISION with virtual Lamborghinis and Cylon babes

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 25 August 2008

    ... the press had been expecting Huang to talk more about CUDA and supercomputing applications of modern graphics cards, there was actually nothing new mentioned.  Huang touted GPU supremacy in Folding@Home ...

15. Nvidia touts physics, but financial trouble ahead

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 12 August 2008

      Owners of a GeForce 8-series or higher graphics card can squeeze more eye candy out of their hardware as Nvidia has released a demo pack consisting of a full game, acceleration demos and Stanford’s Folding@Home ...

16. Graphics wars: The big summer battle

    (Hardware/Hardware Opinion)

    Thursday, 07 August 2008

    ... interesting to me.   Out of Stanford here in California, the effort is Folding@home and it can be run on a number of machines from a variety of vendors but what makes the Nvidia part interesting ...

17. New Radeon 4800 twice as fast as 3800, AMD says

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 25 June 2008

    ... to watch the impact of such systems in applications such as Folding@Home as well as desktop GPGPU applications that can take advantage of this hidden potential in graphics cards.   Both the 4850 ...

18. Grid computing boosts cancer research

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Monday, 23 June 2008

    ... a results database. Probably the most know distributed computing effort today is Folding@Home and now we have Cels@Home, which is asking Internet users to dedicate computer time to cancer research. ...

19. Nvidia and Stanford finalizing Folding@Home client for GeForce GPUs

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Thursday, 12 June 2008

      During Nvidia Editor's Day, we learned that Nvidia and the Folding@Home research group led by Vijay Pande are making final preparation to launch the first version of the Folding@Home client for ...

20. Intel and Nvidia co-sponsors in parallel programming initiative

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Thursday, 01 May 2008

    ... matter if they are GPUs or CPUs. But I have no doubt that the research group, which by the way includes people like Vijay Pande, who is in charge of the Folding@Home project, will see challenges to address ...

21. Stanford releases new GPU client for Folding@Home project

    (Software/Software Features)

    Sunday, 13 April 2008

      The Folding@Home team, headed by Vijay Panda, has released a new version of its GPU client: Folding@Home is now supporting AMD’s Radeon HD 2000 and 3000 series. Stanford (CA) – The Folding@Home ...

22. Sun spills the beans on upcoming Intel/Microsoft announcement

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 17 March 2008

    ...  platform. Providing hardware and some support, which ATI, for example, has done Stanford University and its Folding@Home project, has been common for as long as we can think, but this current trend certainly ...

23. One million PS3 owners now Folding@Home

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Monday, 04 February 2008

    Sony Computer Entertainment today announced that its contribution to Stanford's Folding@Home medical research program now reaches one million Playstation 3 consoles worldwide. Foster City (CA) - Sony ...

24. Flying car to take off in 2009

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Friday, 16 November 2007

    ... is 50 inches wide. Folding wing The key feature of Transition is its folding wing.  With the push of a button, and when the vehicle is turned off and parked, the wing can extend out for air flight, ...

25. Carbon nanotubes prove electrically flexible on 89% transparent substrate

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Wednesday, 07 November 2007

    ... repeatedly to intense stresses, including folding or rolling.      Jackson (MS) - Researchers at Jackson State University have developed an 89% transparent, flexible substrate material ...

26. World Community Grid picks up cancer research project

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Tuesday, 06 November 2007

    ... research analysis in recent years and have become a popular application especially with projects such as Berkeley’s Seti@Home and Stanford’s Folding@Home initiatives. The “Help Conquer ...

27. Playstation 3 lands Folding@Home in the record books

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Thursday, 01 November 2007

    Guiness World Records has officially claimed Folding@Home as the most powerful distributed computing network in the world. Tokyo (Japan) - Guiness World Records has officially claimed Folding@Home as ...

28. Cosmology@Home launched, searching for origins of universe

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Wednesday, 24 October 2007

    ... the origin of our universe? Many users may be familiar with popular distributed computing envornments, such as Folding@home, SETI@home, Climateprediction.net, Rosetta@home, World Community Grid, etc.  ...

29. TG Video: Portable electric scooter goes 15 MPH

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Monday, 22 October 2007

    ... Roth Other TG Daily Videos  Roth gave us a run down of the scooter’s technical details and then demonstrated its portability by collapsing and folding the handlebars towards the scooter body.  ...

30. Folding@Home project crosses the petaflop mark

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Friday, 21 September 2007

    ... for Folding@Home was 700 teraflops. The ambitious scientific research project, which requires constant calculation of highly intense models, is aimed at pinpointing root causes of diseases such as Alzheimer's ...

31. UPDATE: AMD announces Barcelona quad-core processor

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 10 September 2007

    ... a few months. In a seven city event unfolding around the globe, AMD's native quad-core Barcelona will be put into action at up to 2.0 GHz on Socket 1207.  AMD will be hosting a special premiere ...

32. Playstation 3 Folding@Home client updated for PSP support

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Wednesday, 22 August 2007

    Sony and Stanford have updated the Playstation 3's Folding@Home client, adding among other things connectivity with the PSP. Foster City (CA) - Sony and Stanford have updated the Playstation 3's ...

33. Mercury releases supercomputer SDK for PS3

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Friday, 03 August 2007

    ... at the center of third party applications virtually from the beginning of its release. The Folding@Home PS3 project, announced back in March of thsi year, has emerged as one of the most popular third-party ...

34. GP GPUs unleashed: Nvidia releases CUDA 1.0

    (Software/Software Features)

    Thursday, 12 July 2007

    ... to write, debug, and optimize”. Graphics processors have been used in various specialized applications like Folding@Home to provide a substantial increase in computation speed.  Nvidia hopes ...

35. Nvidia unveils Tesla, moves into supercomputing

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 20 June 2007

    ... are some universities that are working with CTM (such as Stanford’s Folding@Home project) and there are some that are working with CUDA. Stone and Philips are focusing on the Nvidia model as they ...

36. PlayStation 3 doubles Folding@home capacity

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Wednesday, 25 April 2007

    Stanford University’s Folding@home distributed computing project has seen its capacity double in the last month to 700 T Flops thanks largely to the PlayStation 3, according to Sony Stanford University’s ...

37. ‘Google’ becomes world’s most valuable brand

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 23 April 2007

    In yet another chapter of an apparently still unfolding Cinderella story, market researchers today said that the name ‘Google’ is now the world’s most valuable brand. The firm’s ...

38. Game review: Enchanted Arms is anything but enchanting

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Opinion)

    Thursday, 19 April 2007

    ... to cover every RPG and soap opera plot twist possible into a rapidly unfolding narrative, failing to flesh out any unique story. The game has a couple visually impressive cutscenes, but a failure to cast ...

39. PS3 Folding@Home hits nearly 40,000 users in three days

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Monday, 26 March 2007

    Almost 40,000 PS3 owners have connected to Stanford University's Folding@Home project, boosted by the launch of the console in Europe and other areas of the globe. Foster City (CA) - Almost 40,000 ...

40. PlayStation3 surpass PCs in Folding@Home computations

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Friday, 23 March 2007

    The recent release of the Folding@Home plug-in for PlayStation 3 game consoles has gotten off to a very successful start. Culver City (CA) - The recent release of the Folding@Home plug-in for PlayStation ...

41. New PS3 update adds download queueing, Folding@Home

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Tuesday, 20 March 2007

    ... tap into Stanford's Folding@Home medical research program. The Cell Broadband Engine in the PS3 is powerful enough to be useful for the ambitious Folding@Home project, says Sony. Originally announced ...

42. PlayStation 3 joins Folding@Home

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Friday, 16 March 2007

    PlayStation 3 owners will soon be able to help find the cure for Alzheimer's and other diseases with a new Folding@Home plugin. Stanford (CA) - PlayStation 3 owners will soon be able to help find ...

43. Analysis: Retail prices of AMD processors continue decline

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Saturday, 03 February 2007

    ... official portfolio is the 820 model. Going up on the performance line, though, there is a different story that is still unfolding. On the most part, we saw a decreasing trend for AMD's processors. ...

44. AT&T buries Cingular

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Friday, 12 January 2007

    AT&T today announced that it will be folding the name "Cingular" into its own AT&T "iconic" brand starting January 15. San Antonio (TX) - AT&T today announced that it will ...

45. AMD releases Catalyst 6.12 graphics chip driver

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 13 December 2006

    ... "appearing choppy." AMD noted that this driver does not support the Folding@Home provided by Stanford. There was no detail provided, but the company said that "there are issues," which will be addressed ...

46. Publish pictures and view RSS news with Opera Mini 3.0

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Tuesday, 28 November 2006

    ... folding. The browser will show a grey padlock in the upper corner when browsing to a secure website. Certificate details for the website can be viewed by going to the Menu and Page Information page. Content ...

47. The waiting-in-line Wii report: Wii draws launch frenzy as well

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 20 November 2006

    ... at this rate, I knew I wouldn't be able to get a Wii without biting the bullet and joining the Best Buy line. After running home to pick up a folding chair and a blanket, I became part of the crowd waiting ...

48. AMD launches "stream processor" accelerator board

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 14 November 2006

    ... calculations. BionicFX, for example, was one of the first developers to use Nvidia 6800 graphics for audio processing; more recently, Stanford's Folding@Home research team announced that it would enable ...

49. New Catalyst driver accelerates Intel 965 Crossfire configurations

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 31 October 2006

    ... patch anymore. Also new is official support for Stanford University's Folding@Home GPU client. However, at this time, only X1900 and X1950 cards can participate in the project. Radeon X1800 cards are expected ...

50. GPUs to increase Folding@Home processing power up to 500x

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Friday, 29 September 2006

    Stanford University's Folding@Home project today announced a new software that will enable the use of graphics cards within the distributed computing project. Project leaders will tap into the floating ...