HPC Wire speculates that the Oak Ridge National Lab Nvidia supercomputer will be ready in 2011 with 20-25 petaflops. The plan for an exaflop supercomputer is for 1 exaflop by 2019. ORNL’s Fermi machine will be built by Cray. At the “Breakthroughs in High Performance Computing” session on Wednesday evening, Cray CTO Steve Scott basically …
The wealthy and affluent are 2.5 times more engaged than the poor in offline politics and over 4 times more engaged than the poor in online politics. Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular Science blogger with 1 million readers per month. His blog Nextbigfuture.com is ranked #1 Science News Blog. …
These images are from animated computer simulations of a new method — developed by University of Utah mathematicians — for cloaking objects from waves of all sorts. While the new method is unlikely to lead to invisibility cloaking like that in ‘Star Trek’ or ‘Harry Potter’ movies, it may eventually help shield submarines from sonar, …
1. Large-Area Synthesis of High-Quality and Uniform Graphene Films on Copper Foils. Graphene films of the order of centimeters were grown on copper substrates by chemical vapor deposition using methane. The films are predominantly single-layer graphene with a small percentage, 3. MIT has an overview of current graphene research. Anticipated Uses for Graphene Electronics “Graphene …
Microbes to Convert Coal to Methane Scale Up Announcement Soon At Synthetic Genomics, the San Diego startup he co-founded in 2005, Venter said scientists are using such techniques to create new microbial species with enhanced and even unique capabilities. For example, he said Synthetic Genomics has created new species of microbes that grow on the …
An overhead view (bottom) shows cylindrical block-coploymer structures, consisting of a central polymer (blue) linked to a surrounding polymer (red). An atomic-force microscope image (center), shows the densely packed cylinders, dark in the center, with the varying height of the surface beneath them visible as alternating lighter and darker stripes. The side view diagram (top) …
The 3D IC, which was processed on 8-inch wafers with industry standard 0.18-micron CMOS technologies both at NNFC and SNF, contains 128 million vertically oriented devices as a test vehicle, and was uniquely processed at low temperatures — below 400 degree Celsius, the parties explained. Also, a sub-micron-thick single crystalline silicon layer was initially formed …
This is a small prediction on a trivial topic. Dark Knight will earn more than the non-inflation adjusted total of Titanic. This Mondays numbers were 45% over the Dead Man’s chest numbers, which could be an indication of longer legs than Dead Man’s chest. An extra $4 million this week if the pattern holds throughout …
Many people who discuss energy and environmental issues often complain that if only project X or funding for Technology AB was cut or reduced and the billions not wasted on it then that money could go to the energy technology that I like or the energy project that I think would work. This is massively …
Lorentz actuated propulsion would require no propellant. However, recent experiments simulating orbit conditions resulted in explosions. The team tested the ability of various objects to hold a charge in a vacuum while being bombarded with plasma, as would be the case in orbit. To generate the charge on the test object, they attached it to …
I had previously covered the PETA $1 million prize for invitro (test tube / factory meat from stem cells) meat. PETA prize for chicken meat that can pass a fried chicken taste test and be sold in ten states commercially Many people have an initial reaction that invitro meat would be yucky and they do …