Author Archives: Nicole Hemsoth
Nicole Hemsoth
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 ...
NCAR, Captain of the Green Enterprise (Awards)
April 4th, 2013
The Boulder-based NCAR won the "Facility Design Implementation" category for its sustainable approach in designing and building the new NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputing Center (NWSC), which is also home to the Yellowstone supercomputer. H+L Architecture and RMH Group, an engineering firm, ...
DOE Teams Drive Closer to the Future of Trucking
April 4th, 2013
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/supertruck.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="46" />With tractor-trailers accounting for 12 percent of fuel consumption in the United States, big rigs don't get their name for size alone. As a result, these highway goliaths have been a focus ...
Autodesk Beefs Up 2014 Design Suites
April 3rd, 2013
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/autodeskfactory.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="61" />It's that time of year again—everyone is hitting the gym to get ready for summer. But with the recent announcement of its 2014 Design Suites, 3D design giant Autodesk is beefing up ...
The Evolution of Green Data Center Optimization
April 3rd, 2013
Over the last few weeks, Green Computing Report has shone the spotlight on various optimization methods, including Google’s research to improve their air cooling system. What is rarely mentioned is the journey leading to the discovery of these optimization ...
MIT Course Puts Tech on the Brain
April 2nd, 2013
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/neurotech.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="54" />It used to be that passwords were just that—a word. Then they had to include a number, and many sites now require a special character like an asterisk or exclamation point as ...
Altair Assimilates Parasolid into HyperWorks
April 1st, 2013
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/parasolid.png" alt="" width="95" height="62" />“Assimilation” may have taken on a negative connotation for those familiar with the Borg, but dystopian sci-fi examples aside, assimilation is at the core of any business looking to keep ahead of ...
Taking the Polar Plunge into the Node Pole
April 1st, 2013
Nature doesn’t charge for air conditioning. That’s important for big tech companies who look to save their bottom line along with the environment as they build massive data centers to store and process their massive data. The Node Pole, ...
The End of the Line for Roadrunner
April 1st, 2013
The Roadrunner has finally been stopped, but not by Wile. E. Coyote. Built by IBM, the $120 million supercomputer was decommissioned on March 31. It was the first machine to ever perform at over a petaflop and from June ...
Tesla Expects First-Ever Profit
April 1st, 2013
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/models.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="63" />Despite today's news of the U.S. manufacturing sector's slowing growth, electric car pioneer Tesla Motors is expecting to post its first-ever quarterly profit after sales of its Model S exceeded expectations. The ...
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