Author Archives: Nicole Hemsoth
Nicole Hemsoth
Nine Teams Break into the Next Round of the DARPA Robotics Challenge
July 3rd, 2013
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/VRCATLAS.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="52" border="0" />Last week marked the DARPA Robotics Challenge’s first major test: the Virtual Robotics Challenge (VRC). From June 17-21, 26 teams from an original pool of 126 battled to the top six ...
Energy-Efficient Planning for Heterogeneous Computing Systems
July 2nd, 2013
Prominent researcher discusses work on energy-aware scheduling algorithms for heterogenous computing systems.
An Interview with EMC’s Chief Sustainability Officer
July 2nd, 2013
Green Computing Report speaks with EMC's Chief Sustainability Officer Kathrin Winkler about the company's latest sustainability report, the major drivers for energy efficiency and a new way of thinking about IT's carbon footprint.
Apple Plans 20MW Solar Farm to Power Reno Datacenter
July 2nd, 2013
Apple Inc., once criticized as a wasteful energy consumer, now has its sights set on creating a renewable energy empire.
Materials Upstage the Human Genome Project
July 1st, 2013
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/MGI.png" alt="" width="95" height="95" border="0" />New materials may drive new technologies both for their manufacture as well as their applications, but births of these so-called “game-changing” materials are few and far between, with new materials requiring ...
Solar Panels Slim Down
July 1st, 2013
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/800px-20110420-RD-LSC-0880_-_Flickr_-_USDAgov.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="63" border="0" />Researchers at MIT have recently discovered a way to create solar panels that are thousands of times thinner than previous models, and even lighter than tissue paper.
Study Paints Cloud with Green Brush
July 1st, 2013
Researchers from Harvard and Reading University released a study on Thursday portraying cloud as 95 percent more energy-efficient than on-site computing.
Breaking Down Barriers to HPC
June 28th, 2013
The tale of the "missing middle" is all-too-common for many small-to-medium-sized manufacturers looking for a digital leg up on their competition. And at this year's International Supercomputing Conference, the topic did not go overlooked. Here we'll take a look ...
What’s Stopping Datacenter Progress?
June 28th, 2013
Technologies such as virtualization, cloud computing, big data, and converged infrastructures are the standouts of modern datacenter design. Yet most datacenters in operation today are unable to implement these best practice principles.
Miniature Robots and More Come to Life with 3D-Printed Microbattery
June 28th, 2013
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/microbattery.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="74" border="0" />When you think of taking something with “a grain of salt,” you might be taking it lightly, but you shouldn’t be quick to dismiss this grain-sized technology from engineers at Harvard ...
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