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Photos: Inside a supercomputer lab
Photo It is rated for 18 teraflops of processing power. The Cray X1E is so power-intensive that it requires liquid cooling from 16-inch pipes installed in the floor underneath the supercomputer. This photo story is a peek into one of the world's great... [14 Jul 2008]
Photos: Top tech for the festival season
Photo It uses solar and wind power to charge up festival goers' mobile phones. Meanwhile O2, is using pedal power as a green way to keep mobiles going for its customers at the summer festivals. With the festival season kicking off with Glastonbury this... [26 Jun 2008]
Photos: Say hello to Intel's little helpers
Photo The company is exploring other means of reducing power demand by personal computers. One project would enable hardware rather than an operating system to control power-saving settings. Eventually, the designers plan to attach the arm to a Segway... [18 Jun 2008]
Photos: The solar powered speedster
Photo The vehicles have streamlined and lightweight Kevlar and carbon fibre bodies, designed to reduce drag - which can account for about 70 per cent of all power lost at cruising speeds. CUER completed its first big test on Saturday 13 June after... [16 Jun 2008]
Photos: The building of a data centre
Photo Power is channelled through two HV mains feeds to provide back-up in case one goes down. The site is plugged into the 'super grid', the base level of the national power grid and during shortages is given the same power priority as a hospital. [11 Jun 2008]
Photos: Supercomputers signal when storms are a-brewing
Photo As computing power burgeoned and satellite data has improved predictions have steadily increased in accuracy over the decades, with seven-day forecasts in Europe today having a better hit rate than five day forecasts in the early 1980s. [06 Jun 2008]
Photos: Five of the best mini laptops
Photo Miniature laptops which pack enough power to keep you productive on the road yet have a convenient, travel-sized form factor are hot property right now. The machine includes Intel's Atom processor - the company's smallest and lowest-power chip... [06 Jun 2008]
Photos: The new-look $100 laptop
Photo Nicholas Negroponte said in a statement: "Based on feedback from governments, educators and most important, from the children themselves, we are aggressively working to lower the cost, power and size of the XO laptop so that it is more affordable... [21 May 2008]
Photos: Feeling chipper about green IT
Photo The 39,000-server centre will draw power from a combined heat and power plant that uses its natural fuel to generate electricity, hot water and steam. Here, wood chippings wait to be loaded into the power plant. [20 May 2008]
Photos: Welcome to Satyam's R&D labs
Photo A major military power is already considering using the system for a virtual battle simulator, and there is also interest from a large player in the aerospace industry, the company said. Passing through the soothing blue glow of a giant neon tube... [19 May 2008]
Photos: Ellen McArthur's new boat
Photo Below this display is a control for the NiCad batteries that power the boat's systems. The BT IMOCA 60 is the fruit of a title sponsorship deal between Team Ellen - headed up by iconic British yachtswoman Dame Ellen McArthur - and BT inked in... [02 May 2008]
Photos: The Birth of Hi-Tech Britain
Photo This is a sectioned model of the reactor at Calder Hall, the world's first large-scale civil nuclear power station opened by Queen Elizabeth II in 1956. Historian professor Peter Hennessy said the exhibition of post-war tech embodied public opinion... [01 May 2008]
India's high-tech cities, web whispers, Babbage's Difference engine and more...
Photo Pictured are the different layers of the cable, including the fibreoptic itself, a protective steel sheath, copper sheet which carries 12kV of charge to power the optical amplifiers, and finally white plastic insulation. [29 Apr 2008]
Photos: Australian broadband goes for a deep-sea dive
Photo This is, in turn, coated in a copper sheet, which carries 12kV of charge to power the optical amplifiers. Installing an internet connection can be difficult - especially if the cable is about 9,000km long and very deep underwater. [14 Apr 2008]
Photos: Robots, lasers, action
Photo El-E's power and computation is all on board and runs Ubuntu Linux on a Mac Mini. You know the future has arrived when scientists bring together two staples of science fiction: lasers and robots. But rather than 50-tonne behemoths dealing death... [10 Apr 2008]
