Author Archives: Nicole Hemsoth
Nicole Hemsoth
Linux: Coming to an Infotainment System Near You
April 17th, 2013
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/agl.png" alt="" width="95" height="56" />Open source: when it comes to operating systems, we're all for it, but as soon as you move into financial services or the automotive industry, people begin to get a bit wary. ...
GE Unveils Thousands of Patents
April 16th, 2013
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/quirkyge.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="53" />Patents: they are the fortress behind which inventors and companies shield their creations. They have been credited with everything from protecting the livelihood of brave inventors to allowing pharmaceutical costs to skyrocket. ...
NREL’s Skynet Stays Cool with RackCDU
April 15th, 2013
The U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) is relocating its Skynet HPC cluster to a new datacenter at the Energy Systems Integration Facility (ESIF) in Golden, Colo. At the heart of this move is Asetek's RackCDU ...
MIT, Harvard Pattern Graphene with DNA
April 15th, 2013
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/grapheneDNA.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="52" />Despite graphene's seemingly magical properties, the material isn't as easy to work with as hopeful headlines suggest. But a research breakthrough from MIT and Harvard could solve the material's problems, making it ...
Humans and Robots Converge at Innorobo 2013
April 15th, 2013
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/innorobo.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="63" />From March 19th to the 21st, record crowds came into Cite Internationale in Lyon, France, with over 15,000 entries for Innorobo 2013, an annual conference centered around the demonstration of today's service ...
Sidestepping Moore’s Law with Micro-Manufacturing
April 12th, 2013
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/chiplet.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="63" />Despite decades of effort into shrinking down electronic circuits, computer chips of today are still made on relatively large wafers that pack no more than hundreds of circuits on their surfaces. But ...
Manufacturing Sees Boost in 2014 Budget
April 12th, 2013
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/piggybank.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="122" />Despite significant spending cuts to Medicare and defense, President Obama's proposed budget for Fiscal Year 2014 had added funding across the board for manufacturers, reflecting his determination that the industry will be ...
Using Software to Make Datacenters Greener
April 11th, 2013
It’s no secret that supercomputers require a lot of energy to run. Organizations have tried using different cooling methods to keep the cost of running a datacenter down, while Adaptive Computing is going about things a different way, with ...
Manufacturers Struggling to Meet Green Goals
April 11th, 2013
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/greengear.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="57" />Manufacturers may be pushing to reduce carbon emissions, but a new report from MIT says that despite significant advancements in energy efficiency, materials manufacturers are not on track to meet carbon-emissions reduction ...
Cantrell Speaks on Success and Future of Icelandic Datacenters
April 10th, 2013
Last week, GCR caught up with Cantrell to discuss the recent AFCOM award nomination, how the Icelandic datacenter came to be, and how it has attracted as much attention as it has received.