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Computer Simulations Help Predict Bone Fracture Risk
Using a Blue Gene
supercomputer, scientists
have demonstrated the most
extensive simulation yet of
actual human bone structure.
This achievement may lead to
... > full story
World-record Supercomputer Mimics Human Sight Brain Mechanisms
Less than a week after Los
Alamos National Laboratory's
Roadrunner supercomputer
began operating at
world-record
... > full story
Computer Scientists Devise A 'P4P' System For Efficient Internet Usage
A Yale research team has
engineered a system with the
potential for making the
Internet work more
efficiently, in which
... > full story
New Breed Of Supercomputers Proposed To Improve Climate Change Prediction Accuracy
Three researchers have
proposed an innovative way
to improve global climate
change predictions by using
a supercomputer with
... > full story
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Next-generation Computer Antivirus System Developed
August 7, 2008 — Antivirus software on your personal computer could become a thing of the past thanks to a new "cloud computing" approach to malicious software ... > full story -
Quantum Computers Are One Step Closer
August 7, 2008 — Complex computer encryption codes could be solved and new drug design developed significantly faster because of new research. The reality of a workable quantum computer is one step closer. ... > full story -
Project Aims To Improve Energy Efficiency Of Computing
August 4, 2008 — The information technology industry consumes as much energy and has roughly the same carbon "footprint" as the airline industry. Now scientists and engineers are building an instrument to test the ... > full story -
Improving Diagnosis Of Osteoporosis: Computer Simulations Help Predict Fracture Risk
July 3, 2008 — Using a Blue Gene supercomputer, scientists have demonstrated the most extensive simulation yet of actual human bone structure. This achievement may lead to better clinical tools to improve the ... > full story -
Idle Computers Offer Hope To Solve Cancer's Mysteries Through Grid Computing Project
June 26, 2008 — A biomedical engineering professor is using a concept called "grid computing" to allow the average person to donate idle computer time in a global effort to fight ... > full story -
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Liter Of Fuel Would Last UK 1 Year If Cars Had Kept Pace With Computers
June 20, 2008 — One liter of fuel would serve the UK for a year and oil reserves would last the expected lifetime of the solar system -- if efficiency in the car industry had improved at the same rate as in the ... > full story -
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Jaguar Upgrade Brings ORNL Closer To Petascale Computing
May 19, 2008 — Upgrades to Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Jaguar supercomputer have more than doubled its performance, increasing the system's ability to deliver far-reaching advances in climate studies, energy ... > full story -
76-teraflop Supercomputer Installed For Critical Research On Climate Change, Severe Weather
May 9, 2008 — The National Center for Atmospheric Research 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 ... > full story -
Supercomputer To Simulate Extreme Stellar Physics
May 3, 2008 — A team of scientists will expend 22 million computational hours during the next year on one of the world's most powerful supercomputers, simulating an event that takes less than five seconds. This ... > full story -
New Basic Element For Electronic Circuits: 'Memristor' Could Give Computers Memories That Don't Forget
May 1, 2008 — Researchers from HP Labs have proven the existence of what had previously been only theorized as the fourth fundamental circuit element in electrical engineering. This scientific advancement could ... > full story
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