Author Archives: Nicole Hemsoth
Nicole Hemsoth
Finding Green IT in the Fjords of Norway
March 20th, 2013
A lot of attention has been paid to green data centers in northern climates, particularly in Scandinavia where Google has built a green data center in Finland while others have built centers in Sweden and Norway. Fjord IT, a ...
NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang Takes Design to the Grid at GTC
March 20th, 2013
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/gtckeynote1.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="75" />Whether companies use big data for quality testing, product tracking or price optimization, data volumes are growing to unprecedented levels for major organizations and small to medium-sized manufacturers (SMMs) alike. Hoping to ...
From Weapons Production to Water Purification
March 20th, 2013
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/graphene.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="53" />Branching out from its reputation for jet fighters and missiles, defense contractor Lockheed Martin has discovered a means for desalinating seawater that requires a fraction of the energy needed for current systems. ...
Does Green Sacrifice Performance for Efficiency?
March 19th, 2013
There are a lot of details around the battle to implement energy efficient high performance computers but when you slog through all those mentions of UPS’s, ARM chips, air and water cooling systems, you get down to one central ...
Has Boeing Extinguished its Dreamliner Woes?
March 18th, 2013
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/dreamliner.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="63" />A little over a week after Boeing began testing its new battery system for its 787 Dreamliner with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the company has announced that it expects to complete ...
Cloud Computing Tames Big Data to Extract Value
March 18th, 2013
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/cloudschematic.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="121" />Cloud computing is much more than just a bunch of third-party servers running at a remote location so businesses can stop spending money on computer hardware. Cloud computing, or more specifically high ...
Good-bye Gas Tanks, Hello Hydrogen Fuel Cells
March 15th, 2013
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/Suzuki-SX4-Hydrogen-Fuel-Cell-Vehicle.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="50" />Considered to be a cleaner, more efficient way to power vehicles, carmakers have been working for years to bring hydrogen fuel cells to the public, but so far little progress has been ...
Superhuman Machines Emerge from DARPA Robotics Challenge
March 15th, 2013
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/chimp.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="143" />Only a few months have passed since the teams for the DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC) were announced, but already many of the competitors are beginning to take shape (and action). The U.S. ...
Pfeiffer Dishes on Data Center Metrics and Trends
March 15th, 2013
Power Assure’s CTO Clemens Pfeiffer spoke with Green Computing Report this week about ten trends he sees controlling the green computing world in the coming years. The discussion inevitably turned to the state of green IT as a whole, ...
Proteus Offers Modeling Hub for Engineering Students
March 14th, 2013
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/modelica.png" alt="" width="95" height="56" />Manufacturers may have already moved their modeling to the cloud, but in academia, the cloud has been largely overlooked, preventing the type of collaboration many professionals already take advantage of. This problem ...
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