Author Archives: Nicole Hemsoth
Nicole Hemsoth
Investor Bets Big on 3D Printing
April 23rd, 2013
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/shapeways.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="63" border="0" />Andreessen Horowitz, a Silicon Valley investment firm, is known for placing big bets on a small number of companies and industries, but today it upped the ante with a $30 million ...
Earth Day Special: Making Datacenters Greener
April 22nd, 2013
Datacenters consume 94.8 billion pounds of CO2 every year. Half of a datacenter's power goes to cooling. To celebrate Earth Day, Fusion-io created an infographic to share ways datacenter energy consumption can be reduced through the use of flash ...
Earth Day Special: 10 Reasons Why You’ll be Buried Alive
April 22nd, 2013
The United States has more trash than any other country in the world, throwing away over 500 billion pounds of garbage every year. As an Earth Day special for <em>Green Computing Report</em>, the infographic below details how Americans distribute ...
On Cloud Nine
April 22nd, 2013
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/ubercloud.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="62" border="0" />Large industrial plants and their need for higher accuracy are increasing the computational intensity of simulation in process industries. But on most systems, with added complexity comes sacrifices in time and ...
Green Revolution Powered by (Mineral) Oil
April 19th, 2013
Austin-based Green Revolution Cooling uses mineral oil as the liquid for its datacenter cooling systems. The idea came to Christiaan Best as a friend described to him the cooling systems that were being installed at North American Aerospace Defense ...
Lithium-Ion Battery Charges Smartphone in Seconds
April 19th, 2013
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/smartphonebattery.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="63" />Lithium-ion batteries seem to be used in nearly any type electronic device today – from our smartphones, to laptops, and even to power electric cars or the Boeing Dreamliner. Now, researchers at ...
Snyder Pushes Michigan to Approve Driverless Cars
April 19th, 2013
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/snyder.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="71" />It's easy to laugh at the image of the 21st century that generations past have conjured up: flying cars, robot servants, and other commodities exclusive to books and TV shows like The ...
Lab-Grown Kidney Transplant a Success
April 18th, 2013
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/kidney.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="130" />This week, bioengineers have come one step closer to making lab-grown organs a viable option for those in need of a transplant. Scientists at Massachusetts General Hospital implanted rats with lab-grown kidneys, ...
Making Datacenters Application Aware
April 17th, 2013
To save on escalating datacenter costs, companies are taking different approaches to datacenter design. Some open the doors and let the cold air chill the servers, whole others use seawater to keep the server heat down. TSO Logic is ...
Harvard Harnesses Solar Power through the Grid
April 17th, 2013
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/pvc.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="41" />This June, Harvard's Clean Energy Project will release a list of the top 20,000 organic compounds used for the printing of cheap photovoltaic cells (PVCs) to solar power developers. If the effort ...
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