Single Crystal Superconductors and Quantum Traffic Jam analysis of Superconductor electrons

April 7, 2017August 29, 2008 by Brian Wang

Single Crystal Superconductor – clear scientific study of new Iron SuperconductorResearch groups have created versions of a class of widely studied superconducting compounds that are each one continuous crystal, rather than composed of many crystalline grains. These single-crystal materials are important achievements because they display better properties than polycrystalline types and are easier to study. …

Progress to exaflop computers and specialized supercomputers

April 7, 2017August 28, 2008 by Brian Wang

Wehner, Oliker, and Shalf estimate that a general-purpose exaflop machine using today’s technology would cost $1 billion to build and 200 megawatts to power—enough for a small city. By comparison, they estimate, a specialized exaflop machine would cost just $75 million and consume just 4 MW. Berkeley Labs and Tensilica are working together on a …

Progress to exaflop computers and specialized supercomputers

April 7, 2017August 28, 2008 by Brian Wang

Myostatin inhibitors funded for muscle regeneration of war injuries

April 7, 2017July 10, 2008 by Brian Wang

A $1.2 million grant from the Office of Naval Research to Dr. Hamrick,bone biologist in the Medical College of Georgia Schools of Graduate Studies and Medicine, is enabling laboratory studies of two experimental myostatin inhibitors: a decoy receptor and a binding protein, both developed by MetaMorphix, Inc. of Beltsville, Md. Both inhibitors have been shown …

Death and Taxes

April 7, 2017June 12, 2008 by Brian Wang

U.S. life expectancy has been steadily rising, usually by about two to three months from year to year. This year’s jump of fourth months to 78.1 years is“an unusually rapid improvement,” Preston said. The preliminary number of deaths in the United States in 2006 was 2,425,900, a 22,117 decrease from the 2005 total. With a …

AMD FireStream 9170 is double precision CPU/GPU hybrid with 500 Gigaflops

April 7, 2017November 8, 2007 by Brian Wang

AMD’s FireStream 9170 chipset includes 660 million transistors and 320 processing units and will be made by chipmaker TSMC. The FireStream 9170 is a step on the way to AMD’s Fusion project, which the company says will combine a graphics processor and general processor on the same piece of silicon. AMD hopes to release Fusion …