India’s Nuclear Energy plans through 2017

Economic Times India – The Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd (NPCIL) will launch 16 reactors at an outlay of Rs 2.3 trillion ($40 billion) during the 12th Plan period (2012-17), a top official of the atomic power operator said. The NPCIL currently generates 4,780 MW of power. India’s installed nuclear power capacity to 10,080 …

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Large supercomputers to speed up: 100 PFLOPs in 2014, 1 Exaflop by 2017?

VR-zone – The most recent expectations from last year’s supercomputing events, of 100 petaflops in 2015 and 1 exaflop in 2018, seems to be too pessimistic, after all. What’s enabling the sudden push? Improvements in processors from Intel, AMD and Nvidia indicate that a 1U or blade HPC server will have 7 TeraFLOPs of peak …

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Tighter crystals means better graphene

Similar to how tighter stiches make for a better quality quilt, the “stitching” between individual crystals of graphene affects how well these carbon monolayers conduct electricity and retain their strength, Cornell researchers report. The quality of this “stitching” — the boundaries at which graphene crystals grow together and form sheets — is just as important …

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Tighter crystals means better graphene

Similar to how tighter stiches make for a better quality quilt, the “stitching” between individual crystals of graphene affects how well these carbon monolayers conduct electricity and retain their strength, Cornell researchers report. The quality of this “stitching” — the boundaries at which graphene crystals grow together and form sheets — is just as important …

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“Supercomputing on demand” becoming a reality

In 2006, Amazon unveiled the Elastic compute cloud, which allowed individual users to rent large numbers of CPUs from Amazon’s server farms. Since then Amazon has repeatedly slashed the cost of the CPUs. For organizations requiring supercomputing levels of power, a company called Cycle computing is able to gather tens of thousands of CPUs from …

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“Supercomputing on demand” becoming a reality

In 2006, Amazon unveiled the Elastic compute cloud, which allowed individual users to rent large numbers of CPUs from Amazon’s server farms. Since then Amazon has repeatedly slashed the cost of the CPUs. For organizations requiring supercomputing levels of power, a company called Cycle computing is able to gather tens of thousands of CPUs from …

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