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1 hr ago | Business Journal

Illinois Medical District plans ambitious expansion

The Illinois Medical District is planning an expansion that could create 2,500 to 4,500 jobs and more than $300 million in new revenue in the next 10 years, according to the Chicago Sun-Times. Plans include the development of 55 vacant acres and building a high-speed fiber optic line linking researchers to the University of Illinois' supercomputer ... (more)

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Related Topix: Illinois, Science / Technology, Chicago, IL, Rush University

6 hrs ago | The Guardian

Manchester International Festival 2013 | Q&A Matt Charman

The acclaimed young playwright tackles the epic chess battle between grandmaster Garry Kasparov and computer Deep Blue in The Machine The 1997 match between chess Grandmaster Garry Kasparov and IBM supercomputer Deep Blue is a crucial moment in the history of humans and technology.

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Related Topix: Games, Chess, Computers, Science / Technology

10 hrs ago | Linux Today

Raspberry Pis Chained Together Provide Massive Computing Muscle

In a new twist on what Raspberry Pi devices are capable of, they're being chained together to form supercomputers and powerful clusters.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology

14 hrs ago | WebWire

Nasa Ames Selects Sgi Uv™, the Big Brain Computer, for a Wide Range of Research

SGI , the trusted leader in technical computing, today announced that NASA's Ames Research Center has selected an SGI UVTM 2000 shared memory system to support more than a thousand active users around the country who are doing research for earth, space and aeronautics missions.

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Related Topix: SGI, CPU, Science / Technology, Computers, Space, NASA

Thu May 23, 2013

Converge! Network Digest

Internet2 Establishes Direct Peering to Windows Azure

Internet2 has established a direct peering relationship with two Microsoft cloud services: Windows Azure and Microsoft Office 365 Education.

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Related Topix: Microsoft, Startups, Science / Technology, Microsoft Office, Science, Computer Science

IEEE Security & Privacy

HPC, Grid, and Cloud: The Synergy Within -- This month in Computing Now

Rather than treat grid, cloud, and high-performance computing as separate and distinct approaches, this month's CN theme focuses more on interoperability among these methodologies - and the issues that arise along the way.

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Related Topix: Science, Computer Science, Science / Technology, Cloud Computing

NewsOn6 Tulsa

Community Supercomputer Unveiled In Tulsa

It may be a world-wide first--a Tulsa supercomputer was unveiled Thursday, and it's open to the public.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Tulsa, OK

Forbes.com

Is It Worth It For Governments To Invest Money On Developing Cutting Edge Supercomputers?

Fluid dynamics Particle physics Medicine Structural engineering , dams, bridges, and more) Realize that the government does a huge amount for science.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Genetics, Medicine, NASA, Business News

RedOrbit

Magnetic Field Model Of Sun Explains Solar...

Since the 18th Century, scientists have been aware that the Sun oscillates between periods of high and low solar activity in an 11-year cycle.

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Related Topix: Mathematics, Science, Science / Technology, Astronomy, Natural Disasters, Solar Flare, Physics

The Tech Report

Nvidia's GeForce GTX 780 graphics card reviewed

Surely a somewhat trimmed-down version of this same GPU would be used to power a less expensive product before long, right? Well, yep.

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Information Technology

IQE plc : IQE's VCSEL products achieve key milestones in high volume...

Cardiff, UK. 23 May 2013: IQE plc announces that vertical cavity surface emitting laser devices using wafers produced at its Cardiff, UK facility have broken the 40 Gbit/s barrier at high temperatures.

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Related Topix: Science, Computer Science, Science / Technology, Computers, Anaheim, CA

CNN

Bitcoin more powerful than top supercomputers

The power of all the computers networked together to maintain the digital currency's system far exceeds the combined processing strength of the top 500 most powerful supercomputers.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Computers, Computer Security, Science, Computer Science

Gizmag

IBM's Watson gets a job in customer service

IBM's Watson supercomputer has been riding high for the past couple of years. It won a game of Jeopardy , went to university and did a stint at a cancer lab .

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Information Technology

AMD Amplifies Mobile Experience With Responsive Performance, Rich...

Boot up or resume from hibernate in seconds. Supporting Resources Visit the 2013 AMD Mobility APU landing page for videos, photos and more.

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Related Topix: Advanced Micro Devices, Startups, Social Software, Science / Technology

Wed May 22, 2013

Robots.net

The Brain as a Model for Future Supercomputers

A news release from Sandia National Labs discusses the fall and rise of the human brain as a model for computers.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Computers, IBM, Games, Chess

The Inquirer

Nvidia says next Citrix Xenserver will support virtual machines on Kepler GPUs

Nvidia's GPGPU development has been largely aimed at the high performance computing and academic markets, however the firm is promoting it for the enterprise with its Grid GPU virtualisation technology.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, CPU

Machine Design

Record simulation on a National Lab supercomputer

So what do you do with a computer than can carry out 16.3 quadrillion floating-point operations per second? At Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, you simulate the interactions between ultrapowerful lasers and dense plasmas in a quest to unlock fusion energy.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Computers

Wyoming PBS Welcome!

NOVA "Hunt for the Supertwister"

NOVA takes a thrilling ride with tornado hunters investigating ingenious new approaches that will one day help forecasters stay one step ahead of devastating twisters.

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Nature Neuroscience

Post-doctoral Fellow, Bioinformatics

The Genome Sciences Centre is seeking a Post-doctoral Fellow for the Bioinformatics Technology Lab to conduct scientific research in the areas of bioinformatics and genomics, specifically related to biological sequence assembly, analysis and annotation in cancer research.

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Related Topix: Bioinformatics, Science, Biotech, Science / Technology, Biology, Computer Science

PR-inside.com

Schrodinger Named Bio-IT World Best Practices Grand Prize Winner

Conducted in the Amazon Web Services cloud, the environment was created to accelerate the screening of potential new cancer drugs.

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Related Topix: Science, Computer Science, Science / Technology, Cloud Computing

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