Oak Ridge National Labs has funded a 20 petaflop supercomputer from IBM (2011-2012) and has talked about 100-250 petaflops by 2015 and an exaflop by 2018. If the SGI petaFLOP supercomputer in one cabinet does not turn out to be vaporware then having a 100 cabinet supercomputer system is relatively standard. 100 petaFLOPS system could …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software 1. Russia will complete an uprate for all but one of Russia’s VVER-1000s by the end of 2010. The uprates will increase the maximum capacity of eight third generation VVER-1000 reactors by 4%, resulting in 311 MWe extra generating capacity. This is part of a larger …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software The Falcon 9 was successfully launched.. There is an alternative feed of the live video here (still holding for 1 hour and 11 55 minutes.) The 50+ minute hold is due to range conditions. The Falcon-9 is a two-stage rocket that is about 180 feet tall. …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software SGI a global leader in HPC and data center solutions, today announced at the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC, SC10) that it has developed a breakthrough hybrid computing platform that will deliver a petaflop of performance within a single cabinet. (A petaflop is defined as a thousand …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Vincent K. Tuohy, PhD, an immunologist and researcher in the department of immunology at the Cleveland Clinic’s Lerner Research Institute, and his team, supported by the National Cancer Institute, have been studying “the possibility of a vaccine that would protect women from breast cancer.” On May …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Craig Venters team copied an existing bacterial genome. They sequenced its genetic code and then used synthesis machines to chemically construct a copy. The synthetic DNA was transferred to a host cell. The resulting microbe then looked and behaved like the species “dictated” by the synthetic …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Cameco said it plans to nearly double uranium production to 40 million pounds annually over the next eight years to satisfy rising demand for nuclear fuel as nuclear power generation capacity expands. Cameco’s expansion plans rely heavily on production from its 50 percent owned Cigar Lake …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Lawrenceville Plasma Physics is running dense plasma focus fusion experiments and are getting good levels of current and voltage. The April 2010 technical report gives the March experimental results. Analysis of shots we did in March gives more convincing evidence of high ion energies, certainly more …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software In a Rice University lab, a black fiber the diameter of a human hair spools into a beaker of ether. Made up of pure nanotubes, the strand is the culmination of nearly a decade of experimentation. Chemical engineer Matteo Pasquali and his colleagues have spun nanotubes …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News   Computer Software Canada’s GDP (Gross domestic product) at market prices at the end of 2009 was $1.56 trillion) The Canadian dollar is again on par with the United States dollar and is expected to stay there or stronger for the foreseeable future and the first quarter GDP growth …
Ads : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Nature Physics – A Rydberg quantum simulator A universal quantum simulator is a controlled quantum device that reproduces the dynamics of any other many-particle quantum system with short-range interactions. This dynamics can refer to both coherent Hamiltonian and dissipative open-system evolution. Here we propose that laser-excited Rydberg …