The most recent feedburner count has over 12,000 10,000 (the 12,000 was a feedburner error) subscribers via email or newsreaders to Nextbigfuture. This is over double the same point in 2009. Technorati ranks Nextbigfuture at about the 800th (as of Jan 2011, 480th) most authoritative blog overall. When the Technorati tracking by topic is not …
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 The Inquirer reports that the Nvidia Fermi GPGPU is a power hungry chip, which poses problems for the HPC (High Performance Computing) customers To accommodate Tesla boards Mannel said that SGI and its customers have had to “scale up the cooling infrastructure” to meet the higher …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Northrop Grumman Corporation has set a new electronics performance record with a Terahertz Monolithic Integrated Circuit (TMIC) operating at 0.67 terahertz (THz), or 0.67 trillion cycles per second. (H/T Popular Science Developed at the company’s Simon Ramo Microelectronics Center under a contract with the Defense Advanced …
The Boeing X-51A WaveRider on May 26, 2010 successfully completed the longest supersonic combustion ramjet-powered flight in history — nearly three and a half minutes at a top speed of Mach 5. The previous longest scramjet burn in a flight test was 12 seconds in a hydrogen-based engine in the NASA X-43. UPDATE – August …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Blake thinks that Firefox will decline from 25-30% browser market share to single digit market sharein 3-5 years. I’m pretty skeptical. I think the Mozilla Organization has gradually reverted back to its old ways of being too timid, passive and consensus-driven to release breakthrough products quickly. …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software A researcher at North Carolina State University has developed a computer chip that can store an unprecedented amount of data – enough to hold an entire library’s worth of information on a single chip. The new chip stems from a breakthrough in the use of nanodots, …
Ads : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News   Computer Software Carnival of Space 146 is up at simostronomy This site provided three articles to the carnival of space: Coverage of Lasermotive (winner of the 2009 level One space elevator challenge, is setting up for another run at level Two in May 2010 The 2010 space elevator games …
NEI Magazine looks at the history and details of the SWU (enrichment) market The capacity of all these potential centrifuge and laser projects totals almost 90 million SWU per year, sufficient to meet the needs of WNA’s Upper Scenario for the year 2024, and well in excess of requirements before that year and for the …
The Washington Post and other sources are reporting the announcement by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that Iran has a program of Laser Enrichment of Uranium It is believed that the laser enrichment is still at experimental quantities and that the main enrichment is still centrifuges. Here is a 14 page pdf of the history of …