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Improving Diagnosis Of Osteoporosis: Computer Simulations Help Predict Fracture Risk
July 2, 2008 — Using a Blue Gene supercomputer, scientists have demonstrated the most extensive simulation yet of actual human bone structure. This achievement may lead to better clinical tools to improve the ... > full story -
Quantum Computing Breakthrough Arises From Unknown Molecule
June 27, 2008 — The odd behavior of a molecule in an experimental silicon computer chip has led to a discovery that opens the door to quantum computing in semiconductors. Researchers describe how they have created a ... > full story -
Idle Computers Offer Hope To Solve Cancer's Mysteries Through Grid Computing Project
June 23, 2008 — A biomedical engineering professor is using a concept called "grid computing" to allow the average person to donate idle computer time in a global effort to fight ... > full story -
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Liter Of Fuel Would Last UK 1 Year If Cars Had Kept Pace With Computers
June 19, 2008 — One liter of fuel would serve the UK for a year and oil reserves would last the expected lifetime of the solar system -- if efficiency in the car industry had improved at the same rate as in the ... > full story -
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World-Record Supercomputer Mimics Human Sight Brain Mechanisms
June 12, 2008 — Less than a week after Los Alamos National Laboratory's Roadrunner supercomputer began operating at world-record petaflop-per-second data-processing speeds, Los Alamos researchers are already using ... > full story -
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Computer Scientists Devise A 'P4P' System For Efficient Internet Usage
May 27, 2008 — A Yale research team has engineered a system with the potential for making the Internet work more efficiently, in which Internet Service Providers and Peer-to-Peer software providers can work ... > full story -
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Jaguar Upgrade Brings ORNL Closer To Petascale Computing
May 15, 2008 — Upgrades to Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Jaguar supercomputer have more than doubled its performance, increasing the system's ability to deliver far-reaching advances in climate studies, energy ... > full story -
76-Teraflop Supercomputer Installed For Critical Research On Climate Change, Severe Weather
May 8, 2008 — The National Center for Atmospheric Research has taken delivery of a new IBM supercomputer that will advance research into severe weather and the future of Earth's climate. The supercomputer, known ... > full story -
New Breed Of Supercomputers Proposed To Improve Climate Change Prediction Accuracy
May 6, 2008 — Three researchers have proposed an innovative way to improve global climate change predictions by using a supercomputer with low-power embedded microprocessors, an approach that would overcome ... > full story -
Supercomputer To Simulate Extreme Stellar Physics
May 2, 2008 — A team of scientists will expend 22 million computational hours during the next year on one of the world's most powerful supercomputers, simulating an event that takes less than five seconds. This ... > full story
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