Author Archives: Nicole Hemsoth
Nicole Hemsoth
HPC as a Service – Key to Mainstream HPC or Wishful Thinking?
August 28th, 2012
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/clouds.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="71" />A recap of a blue-ribbon panel held at this year’s SRII Global Conference. The panel explored the benefits and barriers to the adoption of high performance computing and digital manufacturing with particular ...
Tool and Dice
August 28th, 2012
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/DMR_GenCon-Lolth_cropped.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="102" />Gen Con, the ultimate gaming convention, has come and gone but is not forgotten. Only at Gen Con are you likely to pass a trio of dudes dressed in Imperial Stormtrooper armor ...
Design for Simulation then Manufacture
August 24th, 2012
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/Race_car_CFD_cropped.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="69" />Performing a Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulation on a detailed CAD model is no fun and, more importantly, it is often near useless.
Strayed in America
August 24th, 2012
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/DMR_GoogleNexusQ.jpg" alt="" width="88" height="48" />Google raised some happy eyebrows earlier this summer when the company decided to manufacture its Nexus Q streaming media device in the United States. And then the first product reviews started to ...
Compelling Reasons for Keeping Your IT Hardware and Software Up to Date
August 22nd, 2012
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/stonehedge_SMALL.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="63" />Consultant, author and former CIO Paul Ingevaldson shares insider IT essentials in this excerpt from his new book, <em>The 9 1/2 Secrets of a Great IT Organization-Don't Do IT Yourself</em>.
Making Stuff is Hard! Part II – Review of the Touchfire for iPad
August 21st, 2012
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/Touchfire_small.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="61" />Phil Callihan's Touchfire keyboard finally arrived after numerous delays caused by production problems. Was it worth the wait? Absolutely, says Callihan.<br />
Do You Know Where Your Workforce is Tonight?
August 17th, 2012
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/1280-oscar-pistorius_small.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="63" />There’s a literate, championship workforce that stands behind high tech manufacturing, but where do they come from?
Growth of Intelligent Machines
August 17th, 2012
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/glassmanthinking.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="95" />The Smart Machines Coalition has the ambitious goal of taking machine automation to heights previously undreamed of.
New “Malifaux” Game Pieces Show Weird and Wonderful Results From Digital Sculpting
August 15th, 2012
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/Wyrd_Hungering_Darkness_cropped.jpg" alt="" width="94" height="95" />Ghost Studio helps Wyrd’s team move from art to part over 30% faster, make production tooling via STL milling. Geomagic Freeform allows exquisite detail, creating compelling miniature characters
Stratasys and Oak Ridge National Lab Team Up to Launch an Additive Manufacturing Revolution
August 14th, 2012
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/Fortus_Shot.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="53" />The recently announced partnership between the two organizations will explore how to make fused deposition modeling mainstream and conduct research into new materials for additive manufacturing, such as carbon reinforced plastics.