Cloud computing speed tests and estimate of cloud computing hardware market

CloudSleuth by Compuware Gomez is trying to create performance data to compare the speed of different cloud computing services. The average global performance is based on response times gathered from Gomez Last Mile Peers. The response times provided above have been averaged by month from all geographies. More about the sample application being monitored can …

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Radical New Medicine coming from DARPA

Wired reports on five DARPA medical projects 1. Autonomous Diagnostics to Enable Prevention and Therapeutics Darpa researchers will try to build quick-and-dirty portable machines that can measure specific markers of disease in the blood. They’ll also work on developing unique molecular techniques by which they can quickly spot and analyze newly evolved markers. Other uses …

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Virgin Galactic CEO George Whitesides discusses the next decade in space

George Whitesides has recently replaced Will Whitehorn as the CEO/President of Virgin Galactic. In an interview with Sander Olson, George Whitesides discusses suborbital spaceflight, orbital hotels, and the Government’s role in cultivating commercial spaceflight. From the last answer George Whiteside believes we could see daily suborbital flights by 2020 and thousands of people will have …

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HP Making Nanostores using memristors

IEEE Computer – From Microprocessors to Nanostores: Rethinking Data-Centric Systems Historically, the first computer to achieve terascale computing (10^12, or one trillion operations per second) was demonstrated in the late 1990s. In the 2000s, the first petascale computer was demonstrated with a thousand-times better performance. Extrapolating these trends, we can expect the first exascale computer …

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SuperMUC is the next hot water cooled IBM supercomputer

At this year’s CeBIT, IBM is presenting its first so-called hot-water-cooled systems, which will provide a sneak preview of future innovations: Supercomputers the size of sugar cubes. The next hot-water-cooled IBM system is already on the drawing board, this time in Germany. It will be significantly larger than Aquasar and is expected to go into …

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Gene therapy produces HIV-resistant CD4 T-cells and a first for gene modification of a patients own cells

Gene therapy that interferes with co-receptors on the surface of T-cells can protect these cells from HIV infection, representing a potential first step toward achieving a “functional cure” for AIDS. This was also the first successful use of genetically modified cells from a patients own body being used for treatment. T-cells were filtered from a …

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Workshop on lunar superconductor applications

The purpose of a new lunar superconducting workshop is to bring together experts in these four cutting edge arenas and to give them an opportunity to learn of each other’s work and recent discoveries. * High Temperature Superconductor Applications * Low Temperature / Ultra Low Power Electronics * CryoRobitic Rovers, Landers, and Laboratories * Astrochemistry …

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Transphorm claims 90 per cent more efficient alternate to direct current conversion which could improve energy efficiency and reduce overall energy consumption by 10%

Hybrid and electric cars that are lighter and have longer range. Laptops without a converter “brick” that plugs into the wall outlet. Solar panels that lose much less energy when they link to the electrical power grid. Those are some of the products that Transphorm, a Southern California startup that officially “emerged from stealth” Wednesday, …

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Nuclear Roundup – Hyperion power generation, Korean Smart Reactor, Kazakhstan uranium deal with China

1. With development of large-scale reactors in the United States slowed by constrained debt capital markets, the absence of climate legislation, low gas prices and flagging power demand, talk in the nuclear industry has shifted to next-generation reactors that are smaller, less capital-intensive and therefore more flexible. These small and modular reactors (SMRs), generally 300 …

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3D Bioprinter for printing body parts by Hod Lipson and Cornell Researcher

The technique has already been used to print repairs into real animal bones By harnessing the capabilities of Solid-Freeform Fabrication (SFF) – also known as Rapid Prototyping (RP) – Cornel researchers can create living tissue of arbitrary 3D shapes directly from computer-aided design (CAD) data. The “printing ink” is a cell-seeded alginate hydrogel. The alginate …

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