Author Archives: Nicole Hemsoth
Nicole Hemsoth
HPC in the Cloud: Five Predictions for 2013
January 2nd, 2013
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/cloudcomputing.jpg" alt="" width="96" height="96" />Despite the continuing buzz and attendant confusion surrounding cloud computing -- especially with regard to high performance computing (HPC) and the cloud -- Earl Dodd predicts some clarity will emerge this year. ...
Top Five Sustainable DataCenter Stories of 2012
December 13th, 2012
The end of the year is always a good time for annual lists, including "The most important stories of the year." Well, we haven't been around for a year, but we'll take a stab at it. Most of the ...
Honda: The New US Automaker
December 13th, 2012
<img src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/hondaexports.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="58" />When you think of American automobiles, names such as Ford, General Motors and Chrysler and images of Detroit, the “motor city,” come to mind. But it would seem that Japanese automakers are intent on ...
Intel’s New Atom S1200 Low-Power SoC Beats ARM To the 64-Bit Arena, But Can’t Handle Facebook Datacenter Workloads
December 12th, 2012
At its announcement, Intel boasted that one of the 1200's 20 design wins even swapped out an ARM design for the new chip. The race for fledgling datacenter microserver market is on.
Ultra-thin Cooling Jets for Next-gen Electronics
December 12th, 2012
<img src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/coolingjet.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="47" />Just when you think technology has hit a wall in its ability to scale downward in size, another breakthrough surfaces, and our cell phones and tablets shrink yet again. But this time, it's not ...
Using Virtual Reality to Model a Nuclear Components Factory in Four Dimensions
December 11th, 2012
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/engineering_namrc_vr-reactor-mid.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="63" />At the University of Sheffield, a leading edge research center is helping Rolls-Royce plan a nuclear components factory. The center uses different kinds of simulation to create an evolving virtual model that ...
Armed and Dangerous
December 11th, 2012
<img src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/DMR_3DPrintedGun.jpeg" alt="" width="95" height="65" />Well, that didn’t take long. A few days after a 3D printed gun fired a few rounds, Congressman Steve Israel (D-Huntington) has announced legislation to renew a ban on plastic guns that is set ...
Simple and Affordable Ways to Increase Datacenter Efficiency
December 10th, 2012
Not everything needs to be complicated. If you're not yet ready to try radical new changes in your datacenter, here are some inexpensive ways to enhance sustainability, meet environmental regulations and save money...
LCD Contacts Put Dollar Signs in UGent’s Eyes
December 10th, 2012
<img src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/eyecolor.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="63" />Ever wish you could change your eye color on demand? Researchers at the Centre of Microsystems Technology (CMST), IMEC's associated lab at Ghent University in Belgium, have unveiled a working prototype of a curved ...
In Defense of ICT’s Impact on Climate Change
December 7th, 2012
From the New York Times article "Power, Pollution and the Internet" to Greenpeace's criticisms of the heavy use of carbon-emitting energy sources by Amazon and other cloud computing datacenters, the ICT industry is getting a lot of criticism for ...
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