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The Top 11 Technologies of the Decade
The January 2011 issue of IEEE Spectrum reviews the most important innovations that came of age in the past 10 years, based on their influence, usefulness, and...
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Maths Research to Improve Internet Reliability
The Internet Traffic-Matrix Synthesis project will help make Internet services more reliable and efficient by synthesizing Internet traffic matrices and enabling...
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Ibm Xeon-Based Supercomputer to Hit Three Petaflops
IBM plans to build an Intel Xeon-based supercomputer that will reach a peak speed of three petaflops and use a hot water-cooling system, which will result in 40...
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Elusive Spintronics Success Could Lead to Single Chip For Processing and Memory
The proactive control of magnetically polarized current has been demonstrated for the first time, raising the possibility of combining computer memory and processing...
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Alto Protocol Could Improve Peer-to-Peer Networks
The Internet Engineering Task Force is developing Application-Layer Traffic Optimization (ALTO), a peer-to-peer system designed to improve the performance of client...
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Light Speed Now a Bottleneck in Fastest Networks
High-frequency trading firms should consider where they locate their data centers, according to researchers studying light propagation delays in fiber-optic based...
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Preventing Gridlock: Developing Next Generation Internet Infrastructure
The MODE-GAP project is working to boost capacity of broadband networks 100 times by developing data-transmission technologies based on special long-haul transmission...
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World's Fastest Computer Brings Incalculable Benefits
Using the fastest supercomputer in the world, researchers in China can significantly shortened the amount of time it takes to process data and analyze solutions...
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IBM Chip Breakthrough May Lead to Exascale Supercomputers
IBM's new CMOS Integrated Silicon Nanophotonics technology boosts the data transfer rate between computer chips using pulses of light, and could boost supercomputing...
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Jaguar Helps Develop Virtual Nuclear Power Reactor
The Jaguar supercomputer at the U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory is paving the way toward the development of a new generation of nuclear...
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IBM Claims Breakthrough in Laser-Based Chips
IBM recently announced a breakthrough in the development of silicon-based chips that send data using pulses of laser light. IBM says the research sets the stage...
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Silicon-Germanium Devices Developed For Use in Space
A five-year project led by the Georgia Institute of Technology is using silicon germanium technology to develop space electronics, which could change how space...
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Top Scientist rges 'ambitious' .s. Exascale Supercomputer Plan
Peter Beckman, director of the DOE's Exascale Technology and Computing Institute, says the United States needs to make a sizable push to open up funding resources...
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A Matter of Privacy
Do consumers have enough control over their personal information or is more government regulation needed?
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Topic Models vs. Unstructured Data
With topic modeling, scientists can explore and understand huge collections of unlabeled information.
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The Eyes Have It
Eye-tracking control for mobile phones might lead to a new era of context-aware user interfaces.
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IBM, Intel Question Key Top500 Supercomputer Metric
Researchers at IBM and Intel are questioning the methods by which the supercomputing Top500 list is compiled. "The Top500 . . . doesn't measure about 80 percent...
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Hpc Experts Look Past Petaflop to the Exascale
At SC10, the annual supercomputing conference, high-performance computing (HPC) experts debated whether the industry will reach an exaflop by 2020, and if the achievement...
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Silicon's Long Good-Bye
Researchers make transistors out of a material that's better than silicon.
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