Author Archives: Nicole Hemsoth
Nicole Hemsoth
3D Printing Personal Electronics: From the Game Room to the Classroom
December 3rd, 2012
<img src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/game_13.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="63" />Because of its flexibility, 3D printers are able to create 100 unique products just as easily and quickly as it would take to print 100 identical ones, which means that customized products, from exoskeletons ...
HP Updates On Project Moonshot, ARM-Based Servers, Memristors
December 1st, 2012
<p><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva;">At the Server Design Summit, HP Labs researcher gives some status reports on several projects. 100-fold increase in performance per watt? Announcements imminent for Project Moonshot and ARM-based servers? …</span></p>
Greenpeace Activists Troll Amazon In Attempt to Make AWS Cleaner
November 30th, 2012
<p><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva;">The environmental organization creates “green amazon web services” website promising to make AWS the greenest in the world. The site got a lot of attention at Amazon's “AWS Re:Invent” event in Las Vegas...</span></p>
Fiscal Cliff Puts the Silicon back in Silicon Valley
November 30th, 2012
<img src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/IMG_7929-1.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="71" />Amidst the flurry of budget negotiations, Silicon Valley is keeping an eye on lawmakers and the billions of dollars in funding that may be cut. After outsourcing much of its manufacturing work to Asia, ...
Tackling the Complex and Challenging World of Automotive Battery Design
November 30th, 2012
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/Chevy_Volt.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="53" />Researchers developing low-cost, long-lived and safe lithium-ion batteries for hybrid and electric vehicles are enlisting high performance computing (HPC) modeling and simulation capabilities to unravel the complexities of this important technology. Dr. ...
UK Maneuvering to Play Major Role in Nuclear Renaissance
November 28th, 2012
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/Nuclear_Symbol.jpg" alt="" width="94" height="94" />£37.1 million Regional Growth Fund award to the Nuclear Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre in partnership with Rolls-Royce is designed to boost the country’s nuclear plant capabilities, invigorate its supply chain, and make ...
Google’s New Patent for Modular Data Center Cooling?
November 27th, 2012
Filed under the company name of Exaflop LLC., patent #8,320,125 was awarded to the mysterious company that seems to do nothing but file patents. It describes a movable cooling system for rack-mounted servers.
IBM creates miniature water-based heat exchanger to sit directly on a chip
November 27th, 2012
<p>Big Blue's research center in Zurich developed a tiny water-based cooler that it says can increase density of microprocessor stacking by a factor of one million...</p>
Electric Vehicles Power Homes with Reversible Charging
November 27th, 2012
<img src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/tumblr_mdt4c1JarW1rpydpj.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="61" />During the height of Hurricane Sandy's devastation, when much of New England was without power, it was not unusual to hear reports of people offering to charge strangers' cell phones using their cars' electrical ...
Location, Location, Location: It Applies to Green Datacenters, Too
November 26th, 2012
<p>Google does it. Facebook does it. Even educated eBay does it. Choosing the right location can be a great way to build a greener data center.</p>
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