In a significant step toward restoring healthy blood circulation to treat a variety of diseases, a team of scientists at Weill Cornell Medical College has developed a new technique and described a novel mechanism for turning human embryonic and pluripotent stem cells into plentiful, functional endothelial cells, which are critical to the formation of blood …
Sander Olson is attending the 2009 International Electron Devices Meeting in Baltimore, Maryland. Below is a summary of the first day of the conference, Dec 7. The first day of the 2009 International Electron Devices Meeting(IEDM) began with bold prognostications regarding the future of computing and electronics. The IEDM meeting, held in Baltimore, is being …
HPCWire highlights of SC09 * 15 of 60 press releases were GPU related* China’s GPU-CPU “Tianhe” supercomputer making it into the number 5 position on the TOP500* Japan’s 3 petaflop TSUBAME 2.0 Fermi-equipped super scheduled for deployment in October 2010* announcement of a new GPU computing collaboration network.* HPC-capable Fermi GPUs from NVIDIA coming online …