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CERN throws 10,000 CPU cores at Folding@home coronavirus simulation project

CERN gives thousands of aging CPU cores a new lease on life by putting them to work on Folding@home.

April 29, 2020 by Liam Tung

Cloudera Enterprise 6 hits the streets

Hadoop 3.0 takes a starring role in the next release of Cloudera's platform.

May 22, 2018 by Tony Baer (dbInsight)

Hadoop 3 confronts the realities of storage growth

While Hadoop was designed around commodity infrastructure, Hadoop 3.x confronts the reality that too much cheap storage can get expensive.

January 3, 2018 by Tony Baer (dbInsight)

Singapore probes distributed analytics for IoT limitations

Local researchers are looking at technologies that can enable data to be analysed more efficiently within the limitations of Internet of Things, as Singapore aims to take the lead in the emerging market.

March 31, 2016 by Eileen Yu

Monash University receives MASSIVE supercomputer upgrade

Monash University's Clayton facility has received an upgrade to its supercomputer, updating to the Nvidia-powered M3 as part of its additional AU$4.1 million MASSIVE cash injection.

February 28, 2016 by Asha Barbaschow

Gallery: Scientists react to Hadron success

September 10, 2008, the first particle beam was successfully sent around the full circuit of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (Cern). Here's how UK scientists reacted to the achievement.

September 9, 2008 by Andy Smith

Smart cars... from Sandia

Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) are more known for their research on nuclear weapons than for making our cars safer. Still, some SNL researchers are designing safety features for cars that can analyze human behavior. This could lead to smarter cars which would tell us that we're tired or tell our cell phone to hold an incoming call so we won't be distracted. Of course, SNL is also testing military vehicles occupied by a driver and a passenger. And guess what the researchers found: 'During a difficult driving maneuver, it might be best for the passenger to receive radio transmissions in order to not distract the driver.' Isn't obvious? Anyway, the SNL researchers think their technology -- if it is adopted by the automotive industry -- could save many lives every year.

August 25, 2007 by Roland Piquepaille

IT, Google to play big roles in hunt for killer asteroids hiding in Earth's blind spot

Computerworld's Patrick Thibodeau has a report on how Apophis, an asteroid that currently has a 1-in-45,000 chance at hitting Earth, isn't the only killer rock in the heavens and how the hunt to identify others is underway. Apparently, for most scientists, a 1-in-45K chance (odds that Thibodeau say are likely to improve in Earth's favor) is too close for comfort.

February 22, 2007 by David Berlind

Uses for supercomputers

Data reduction is about to become the most important commercial driver for investment in super computing hardware.

November 30, 2006 by Paul Murphy