Author Archives: Nicole Hemsoth
Nicole Hemsoth
Breaking the Sound Barrier with HPC
May 1st, 2013
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/bloodhound.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="68" border="0" />In 1997, a car called ThrustSSC became the first car to break the sound barrier as it blasted across the Arizona desert, establishing the current land-speed record of 763 mph. Now, ...
Amid Sweeping Budget Cuts, Obama Stands by STEM
May 1st, 2013
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/ObamaNAS.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="63" border="0" />At the 150th anniversary of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) this week, President Barack Obama said the nation cannot afford to make sweeping budget cuts that threaten to stall the ...
The Challenges of Energy Efficient Exascale Computing
April 30th, 2013
At some point, the advancement in computer technology will lead to computing at one exaflops, or a thousand petaflops. Achieving this landmark goal is driving datacenters to meet the power and cooling requirements necessary to house that sort of ...
From Striped Toothpaste to Lithium-Ion Batteries
April 30th, 2013
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/parc.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="63" border="0" />PARC, an NCMS member company, is a name you might not recognize but really is someone you do know. Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Centre (PARC) has been responsible for the computer ...
PLM: Formula for Racing Success
April 26th, 2013
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/vettel.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="63" border="0" />When talking about Formula One auto racing, most people think of one thing: speed. Each driver and each car has been fine-tuned to consistently put down the lap times that are ...
Mavericks Push the Green Envelope
April 25th, 2013
Power consumption and cooling may be concerns for all IT departments, but high performance computing (HPC) demands large amounts of both. GigaOM held a webinar on Tue., April 23, entitled “Green HPC: how IT mavericks push the envelope with ...
Robots Invade St. Louis
April 25th, 2013
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/firstrobotics.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="71" border="0" />Over 30,000 teenagers boosted the IQ within the Edward Jones Dome in St. Louis this week to take part in the U.S. FIRST Robotics championship. The 21-year-old annual competition brings kids ...
GE Casts Welding Aside for Jet Engines
April 24th, 2013
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/geleap.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="49" border="0" />Historically, the manufacture of jet engines has revolved around the centuries-old processes of casting and welding. But GE may trigger a change in the industry by departing from this process and ...
Manufacturing Fuels Supercomputing Growth
April 24th, 2013
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/titan.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="58" border="0" />Big rigs have become a staple of the American highway, but lately they've become an uncomfortable metaphor for our country as a whole. They're big, they're wasteful, and harmful to the ...
Is a Zero-Watt Solution Worth the Wait?
April 23rd, 2013
Today's businesses move at a rapid pace. Datacenters need to keep up with that pace. However, a datacenter will use up energy to instantaneously access a file. SGI proposes that waiting a few seconds can save thousands of watts ...
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