Scientists at Monash University, in collaboration with colleagues from the universities of Wollongong and Ulm in Germany, have produced tandem dye-sensitised solar cells with a three-fold increase in energy conversion efficiency compared with previously reported tandem dye-sensitised solar cells. Lead researcher Dr Udo Bach, from Monash University, said the breakthrough had the potential to increase …
Hexus features the Colfax CXT8000; a server with eight NVIDIA Tesla GPUs and purportedly the world’s first such system. (H/T Sander Olson) Bright side of news covers the CXT8000 as well. The Colfax GPU server section of their website. The eight GPU (eight Tflop), 4U, rack-mounted supercomputer was rendered even more impressive by its specially …
Aubrey de Grey: Founder of Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence (SENS) is a 25-year long research strategy, currently underway, to develop a regenerative medical procedure to periodically repair all the age-related damage in the human body, thereby maintaining a youth-like state indefinitely Question: Tell us about the SENS foundation. What …