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Planetarium Increases Rendering Speeds for Faster Creation of Astronomy Shows
Beijing Planetarium is a leader in public astronomy and one of Beijing's most popular attractions, with a digital space... Read more
Feb 27, 2009
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On the Use of Cloud Computing for Scientific Workflows
...use of cloud computing for scientific workflows, focusing on a widely used astronomy application-Montage. The approach is to evaluate from the point of view... Read more
Nov 20, 2009
silicon.com > White Papers > Storage > Management
Petabyte Scale Data Mining: Dream or Reality?
Science is becoming very data intensive. The astronomy datasets with tens of millions of galaxies already present substantial challenges for... Read more
Oct 7, 2008
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Astron and IBM Team to Help Research the First Origins Of The Universe
...New Customized Chip Design to Help Build the World's Largest Radio Astronomy Telescope Read more
Sep 2, 2008
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Astron and IBM Team to Help Research the First Origins Of The Universe
...New Customized Chip Design to Help Build the World's Largest Radio Astronomy Telescope Read more
Sep 2, 2008
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Astron and IBM Team to Help Research the First Origins Of The Universe
...New Customized Chip Design to Help Build the World's Largest Radio Astronomy Telescope Read more
Feb 12, 2008
silicon.com > Management > CIO Insights
"We'll find ET within two dozen years," says Seti
...Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen and run by the UC Berkeley radio astronomy lab (RAL) and Seti. The array, made from dozens of small antennas... Read more
Nov 12, 2008
silicon.com > Technology > Hardware
IBM smashes the supercomputing petaflop
...nuclear weapons simulations. The computer will also be used for research into astronomy, energy, human genome science and climate change, IBM said in a statement... Read more
Jun 11, 2008
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Ofcom: Digital dividend up for grabs to highest bidder
...result of the decision by the authorities responsible for UK's radio astronomy to place channel 38 in the [digital dividend review auction]", Ofcom said... Read more
Jun 9, 2008
silicon.com > Management > CIO Insights
The Weekly Round-Up: 16.05.08
Work from home - career enhancing or calamity? Read more
May 16, 2008
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