Author Archives: Nicole Hemsoth
Nicole Hemsoth
Changing Tides in IT Outsourcing
January 31st, 2013
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/economy.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="65" />While outsourcing in the manufacturing sector sends sparks flying among politicians, IT outsourcing for services such as cloud is booming without so much as a peep from Capitol Hill. One point key ...
Are Clouds the Fastest Path to Green Computing?
January 30th, 2013
Public and private clouds have been promoted as paradigms of efficiency across a number of dimensions, not the least of which is energy efficiency and the associated carbon footprint. But is it true? That's what a recent study by ...
Cloud Computing, HPC and Manufacturing: A Conversation with Bill Feiereisen
January 30th, 2013
<div><img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/Bill_mug.jpg" alt="" width="56" height="73" />"It’s not just that people are beginning to do more work with commercial cloud providers like Amazon or Google; they are physically changing the way they access applications and responding to new ...
Nanowires Offer Ray of Hope for Efficient Solar Power
January 30th, 2013
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/nanowires.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="95" />When someone mentions solar power, the first image that comes to mind is typically a midnight-blue panel that spans an entire rooftop. Whether you deem its angular, geometric aesthetic or not is ...
A Sobering Assessment of the Microserver Chip Market
January 29th, 2013
Analyst David Kanter looks at the emergence of microservers and how the upcoming ARM chips will figure into that market. If you're an ARM licensee looking to make it big in the server space in the next few years, ...
MRAM Contends for Green Memory Title
January 28th, 2013
Magnetoresistive random access memory, aka MRAM, has been around for nearly 20 years, but it's just now beginning to be seriously considered for wider use. MRAM is non-volatile, but its performance and density are on par with volatile memory ...
Hyundai Challenges European Automakers at the Nürburgring
January 28th, 2013
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/nurburgring.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="41" />Hyundai has announced a $7.4 million new vehicle test center to be built on Germany's automotive widowmaker: the Nürburgring. The 10,000-square-foot test center will work in tandem with the company's R&D center ...
Manufacturing Rebound Benefits Not Shared Equally
January 28th, 2013
<div><img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/FACTORY_AUTOMATION.png" alt="" width="95" height="75" />While the continuing resurgence of the manufacturing sector is creating new jobs and injecting new life into the U.S.’s GDP, some states are benefitting more than others. As might be expected, the ...
3D Printing Goes Mainstream
January 24th, 2013
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/landscapehouse.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="53" />As 2013 kicks off and the outpouring of CES news slows, you might guess that the most talked about technologies of the year are tablets, apps, and ultra-HD TVs. But it turns ...
Technology Clusters: The Ultimate Collaboration
January 24th, 2013
<div><img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/rebeccataylor148x148.jpg" alt="" width="93" height="93" />NCMS' Rebecca Taylor recently moderated a panel discussion at an Administration sponsored workshop to explore what it takes to build technology clusters that will bring digital manufacturing technology and tools to small ...
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