physics
RSS physicsFlight Dynamic Model Exchange Using XML
White Paper The AIAA Modeling and Simulation Technical Committee has worked for several years to develop a standard by which the information needed to develop physics-based models of aircraft can be specified. The purpose of this... [04 Dec 2008]
What Makes Good Research in Software Engineering?
White Paper Schoolchildren learn the experimental model of physics: hypothesis, controlled experiment, analysis, and possible refutation. Many sciences have good explanations of their research strategies. These explanations include... [03 Dec 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Wave of innovation
Comment Today we see a new component in the equation of progress and it is the collapse of the artificial silos of physics, chemistry, biology and mathematics. Written on a train from Bristol to London and dispatched to... [18 Nov 2008]
Photos: The greatest tech sites from around the globe
Photo Cern, European Organisation for Nuclear Research, is one of the world's largest particle physics laboratories. The world is littered with tech treasure troves, from the home of World War II code breakers to the site that... [13 Nov 2008]
Verification of Data Intensive High Performance Computing Middleware
White Paper Interactive exploration of terabyte and petabyte datasets has been identified as a critical enabler for scientists to glean new insights in a variety of disciplines, such as biomedical imaging, geosciences and high-energy... [03 Nov 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Tech to the rescue
Comment Personally I am watching developments in new materials, biotech, artificial intelligence, artificial life, distributed computing and man machine interfaces with great interest, not to mention the many developments in robotics,... [29 Oct 2008]
Photos: Getting hands on with Microsoft touch
Photo Among the advantages of adding physics engines to surface computing is the ability to "stack objects" as seen with this collection of photos. Physics engines also allow people to interact with an object... [22 Oct 2008]
BlackBerry apps get their own online store
News The key to successful BlackBerry development isn't just good programming, Lazaridis told the room, it's physics. These are the four principles of BlackBerry's "physics", he said. RIM has announced two... [22 Oct 2008]
Reducing Data Center Energy Consumption
White Paper This white paper outlines the energy-saving strategies developed by CERN openlab and used by CERN, the world's largest physics laboratory, as it deploys massive new computing resources to support the most powerful... [22 Oct 2008]
Cluster Approach to High Performance Computing
White Paper Here the paper discusses basics of cluster technology and presents an example of cluster solution, implemented at the Institute of Solid State Physics of the University of Latvia within the LAtvian SuperCluster (LASC)... [21 Oct 2008]
High-Performance Computing: Application to Ab-Initio Simulations of X-Ray Absorption Spectra From Nanoparticles
White Paper This paper discusses basics of high performance computing on the example of the LAtvian SuperCluster (LASC), installed at the Institute of Solid State Physics of the University of Latvia. High-Performance Computing (HPC)... [21 Oct 2008]
Business tech born in Cern's Big Bang lab
News Cutting edge particle physics is being used to hone new technology that will eventually make its way into enterprises. The Cern nuclear physics laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland is helping the tech... [17 Oct 2008]
The Compression Algorithm for the Data Acquisition System in HT-7 Tokamak
White Paper HT-7 superconducting tokamak in the Institute of Plasma Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences is an experimental device for fusion research in China. The main task of the data acquisition system of HT-7 is to... [13 Oct 2008]
A Framework for Scientific Data Mining in Hydro-Acoustic Data Sets
White Paper The data mining technique is based on an inverse modeling of the underlying physics and electronics of a generic multibeam sonar system. A data mining framework for handling large volumes of scientific hydro-acoustic... [06 Oct 2008]
Photos: The Cern computers cracking the Big Bang
Photo The Cern Computer Centre in Geneva, seen here, is the number-crunching hub that powers the physics research lab's quest to discover the nature of the universe. Jean Michel Jouanigot, head of network services at Cern,... [06 Oct 2008]
