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Computer Network Prepared To Handle Massive Data Flow From World's Largest Scientific Experiment
December 22, 2006 Massive quantities of data will soon begin flowing from the largest scientific instrument ever built into an international network of computer centers, including one operated jointly by the ... > full story -
Physicists Use Supercomputers, Disused PCs To Catalog Mineral Designs
December 13, 2006 Rice University physicist Michael Deem is taking zeolite design into the 21st Century using a combination of supercomputers at the University of Texas at Austin and disused computing cycles from more ... > full story -
Unfolding The Genetic Code: First Molecular Simulation Of A Long DNA Strand Shows Unexpected Flexibility
December 7, 2006 Virginia Tech researchers used novel methodology and the university's System X supercomputer to carry out what is probably the first simulation that explores full range of motions of a DNA strand of ... > full story -
Intelligent Sensors Gear Up For Real-Time Flood Monitoring
October 18, 2006 An intelligent flood monitoring system that could give advance warning of the type of rapid flood that engulfed the UK Cornish village of Boscastle in 2004, is under test in the Yorkshire Dales. The ... > full story -
DNA Computing Targets West Nile Virus, Other Deadly Diseases
October 16, 2006 Researchers say that they have developed a DNA-based computer that could lead to faster, more accurate tests for diagnosing West Nile Virus and bird flu. Representing the first 'medium-scale ... > full story -
World's Largest Scientific Computing Grid Sustains A Million Jobs Per Month
September 26, 2006 A milestone for scientific Grid computing was announced recently at the launch of EGEE'06, a major conference on scientific Grids hosted by CERN and held in Geneva this week. The Enabling Grids for ... > full story -
Scientists And Engineers Simulate Jet Colliding With World Trade Center
September 11, 2006 Researchers at Purdue University have created a simulation that uses scientific principles to study in detail what likely happened when a commercial airliner crashed into the World Trade Center's ... > full story -
The Spin On Spintronics
August 29, 2006 That new personal computer is small and super fast, boasts gigabytes of memory, boots up instantly, offers a standby mode that consumes no electric power, and yet keeps programs and data instantly ... > full story -
Tiny Ion Pump Sets New Standard In Cooling Hot Computer Chips
August 23, 2006 University of Washington researchers have succeeded in building a cooling device tiny enough to fit on a computer chip that could work reliably and efficiently with the smallest microelectronic ... > full story -
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Putting Your Computer To Work To Fight Against Malaria In Africa
July 13, 2006 While you are sending an email or surfing the Web, your computer could be helping to tackle one of Africa's major humanitarian challenges, malaria. Africa@home, a project conceived and coordinated by ... > full story
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