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Nicole Hemsoth
SAP Syncs Up with Industry 4.0
April 10th, 2013
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/windfarm.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="71" />What do machine-to-machine (M2M) communication, the Internet of Things and automation have in common? According to SAP, they are all taking us into what the company is calling “Industry 4.0,” the merger ...
Could Datacenters Go Natural?
April 10th, 2013
As organizations continue to research cheaper and more efficient ways to power and cool their datacenters, TeraCool has hit on a method that could achieve both for free. The organization is proposing that datacenters be located near natural gas ...
3D Printing Enters the Operating Room
April 10th, 2013
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/3dorgan.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="63" />A major focus of 3D printing is and has been for a while the promise for eventual home-grown organs that can help shorten long transplant waiting lists and ultimately save lives. But ...
CD-adapco Brings Support to Simulation
April 9th, 2013
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/cdadapco.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="73" />At this year's STAR Global Conference, CD-adapco announced that it is poised to take on some of the most complex simulation challenges facing today's engineers. Armed with usability and performance upgrades, the ...
HP Shoots for the Moon with Efficient New Server
April 8th, 2013
Datacenters consume two percent of the world’s energy. HP introduced their Moonshot 1500 enclosure and Proliant Moonshot servers. According to the company, the Moonshot servers support up to 1,800 servers per rack while only taking up an eighth of ...
DOE Chips in for Energy-Efficient Manufacturing
April 8th, 2013
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/SMLC.png" alt="" width="95" height="95" />The Smart Manufacturing Leadership Coalition has announced $7.8 million award from the Advanced Manufacturing Program at the DOE's Office of Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy, making clear that the push for greener ...
GM Puts $332 Million toward Four Plant Upgrades
April 8th, 2013
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/detroit.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="71" />As we see the automotive industry shift away from big six and eight-cylinder engines and look instead at packing the most power into the compact four-cylinder, it's become clear that efficiency is ...
Green Computing’s Final Four (of the week) Data Centers
April 5th, 2013
Every week features many new green data center announcements, from their planning to their completion. This week, Green Computing Report is highlighting four (a Final Four, if you will, since it’s that time of year) initiatives and facilities that ...
VA Tech Taps Plants for Hydrogen Fuel
April 5th, 2013
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/zhang.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="64" />Earlier this week we covered Virginia Tech's Navy-funded, man-sized robotic jellyfish, but it seems even that wasn't enough news for one week. Now a team of VA Tech researchers have discovered a ...
GE Proficy Goes Mobile
April 5th, 2013
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/proficymobile.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="139" />When we think of analytics, we often picture the tidy offices of suit-and-tie-wearing employees—not the hubbub of a factory floor. This is a problem General Electric hopes to solve with the recent ...
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