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RSS researchersUS nuclear researchers switch off PCs
News Researchers and scientists have been forced to stop work and are now attending training sessions on computer security, according to Energy Department officials. The US Energy Department has decided to suspend all computing research at its nuclear... [07 Apr 1999]
PPPL Researchers Develop Anti-Terrorism Device
White Paper Anti-terrorism efforts may get a boost from the U.S. Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics. A team led by PPPL engineer Charles Gentile is developing a Miniature Integrated Nuclear Detection System, called MINDS, which would have... [05 Jan 2005]
Computational Power of Sun Compute Grid Helps Researchers Uncover New Ways to Treat Diseases
White Paper One of the largest academic medical centers in the United States and a leader in clinical research, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center has made advances in healthcare that have impacted hundreds of thousands of lives. [16 Apr 2008]
€1.2bn boon for IT researchers in 2007
News The European Commission is to fork out €1.2bn on ICT research this year. The EC cash bonanza will be spent on a number of tech projects as part of its seventh framework programme (FP7) which will run until 2013. [02 Feb 2007]
Researchers in Quest for Vaccines
White Paper The Complex Carbohydrate Research Center, at the University of Georgia was faced with a significant technical challenge to carry out its research developing simulation techniques to study carbohydrates and their interaction with proteins. [24 May 2007]
HP Cluster Computing Helps Researchers Unlock Secrets of Carbohydrate/Protein Interaction
White Paper At the Complex Carbohydrate Research Center (CCRC) at the University of Georgia, a team is working to develop methodologies to study carbohydrates. The team's challenge is to study the interaction of carbohydrates and proteins in water, using... [09 Apr 2005]
CSILabs Helps Researchers Get "More Science Per Dollar" With Supercomputing Cluster Built on Intel Gigabit Adapters
White Paper CSILabs is the high-performance computing (HPC) division of Concentric Systems Inc.a large systems integrator based in Alpharetta, Georgia. The challenge was to design a supercomputing solution for JLab that can perform challenging physics theory... [25 Nov 2004]
Microsoft Researchers Boost Task Productivity Fiftyfold With Cluster Server Software
White Paper Since 2003, scientists at Microsoft Research have been performing research on the design of a vaccine for the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). However, with only six personal computers and 10 processors, the research team struggled to perform... [22 May 2007]
RFID could disrupt medical devices, say researchers
News Radio frequency ID RFID) technology can interfere with medical equipment, according to a study published in The Journal of the American Medical Association. The study by six Dutch scientists has found electromagnetic interference (EMI) generated by... [25 Jun 2008]
Researchers' Move From Linux to Windows Yields Performance Gains, New Capabilities
White Paper As a world leader in the research of protein behavior, the Daggett Research Group at the University of Washington is always in need of more computing power. The group augmented its existing Linux-based High-Performance Computing (HPC) resources... [03 Jul 2008]
ROC Graphs: Notes and Practical Considerations for Data Mining Researchers
White Paper Receiver Operating Characteristics (ROC) graphs is a useful technique for organizing classifiers and visualizing their performance. ROC graphs are commonly used in medical decision making, and in recent years have been increasingly adopted in the... [25 Feb 2004]
Websound: A Generic Web Sonification Tool Allowing HCI Researchers to Dynamically Create New Access Modalities
White Paper The World Wide Web (WWW) has recently become the main source of digital information accessible everywhere and by everyone. Nevertheless, the inherent visual nature of Internet browsers makes the Web inaccessible to the visually impaired. [25 Feb 2004]
A Converged Infrastructure Helps Researchers Explore the Origins of the Universe
White Paper To be prepared for the future, it's essential to have a detailed understanding of the past. That's precisely the challenge facing ASTRON, the Netherlands Foundation for Research in Astronomy. The institute wanted to continue its pioneering work in... [25 May 2007]
RFID viruses? Don't panic
News Dutch researchers have announced they have successfully created a virus capable of infecting RFID tags. Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant for antivirus company Sophos, said the virus created by the Dutch researchers could only propagate... [16 Mar 2006]
Performance, Power and the Platform
White Paper Intel fellow and director of microprocessor research Shekhar Borkar recently sat down to discuss how Intel researchers plan to achieve new levels of microprocessor performance and power efficiency. In this paper, Borkar explains how Intel... [08 Aug 2007]
