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World Record: Julich Supercomputer Simulates Quantum Computer
University of Groningen and Julich Supercomputing Center researchers recently broke the world record for running software that can simulate the largest quantum...
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Nist Racetrack Ion Trap Is a Contender in Quantum Computing Quest
Physicists at NIST have built and tested a device for trapping ions that potentially could process dozens at once with the most versatile control of any trap demonstrated...
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Scientists Achieve New World Record in Energy-Efficient Data Processing
Computer scientists from Frankfurt's Goethe University and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology have set a new world record in energy-efficient data processing...
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The Sheer Delight of Tackling Shear Stress
NASA's commitment to provide aeronautical research opportunities to U.S. universities has led to another success, this time through an inventive student who earned...
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Spies Among Us?
Governments' practice of electronic surveillance—and the growing use of warrantless wiretapping—has observers deeply concerned.
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Data Streaming 2.0
In today's real-time Web, data streaming applications no longer have the luxury of making multiple passes over a recorded data set.
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Fast, Strong Deltabot Moves Forward in the Robotics Market
A research team at the University of Waterloo has built DeltaBot, a robot that uses cables for arms instead of rigid components and has a cylinder in the middle...
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Researchers Give pdate on Road to Parallelism
University of Illinois researchers have taken several small steps toward developing new parallel programming models to tap the many-core processors of the future...
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Nine Prace Prototypes Are Available For Testing
Researchers from academia and industry have until April 11, 2010, to submit applications for an opportunity to test prototypes of potential future high-performance...
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Expert: Bracket Seedings Irrelevant After Sweet Sixteen Round
University of Illinois computer science professor Sheldon Jacobson recently completed a study on the NCAA's men basketball tournament showing that picking the higher...
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Asian Health Research Gets the Grid Treatment
Biomedical and health researchers discussed how they were using grid computing at the recent International Symposium on Grid Computing in Taipei, Taiwan.
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How to Build a Superluminal Computer
Vienna University of Technology physicists Volkmar Putz and Karl Svozil have devised a way to process information that exceeds the speed of light.
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International Deal Struck in Race to Build Quantum Computer
Researchers at the University of Waterloo's Institute for Quantum Computing and Singapore's Centre for Quantum Technologies have agreed to collaborate to build...
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Group Seeks to Open Source Data-Center Design
The recently announced Open Source Data Center Initiative is looking to apply open source principles to the design and construction of data centers.
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Educating Elite Hackers
It started with Michael Coppola taking things apart at the age of five: the remote control, his mother's house lamps, the family's VCR. He was curious about how...
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Conquering the Chaos in Modern, Multiprocessor Computers
A group of computer scientists have found a way to tame multiprocessor computers, which behave in wildly unpredictable ways even as they become widespread in the...
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Quantum on Quantum
Researchers at Harvard University and Australia's University of Queensland have designed and constructed a quantum computer capable of simulating and calculating...
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Aerial Surveillance Technology Could Keep Soldiers Safer
Cranfield University researchers have developed an autonomous computer framework that enables one operator to control multiple unmanned aerial vehicles from a...
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Cloud to Tackle Trillion-Euro Money Laundering Problem
Money laundering is estimated at €1 trillion ($1.36 trillion) worldwide—a huge problem that protects criminal activity. Now European researchers are using cloud...
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