Author Archives: Nicole Hemsoth
Nicole Hemsoth
Altair Takes HyperWorks to the Cloud
March 14th, 2013
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/hyperworks.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="63" />Manufacturers rely on CAE software providers to solve increasingly complex problems to deliver more competitive products through a streamlined product life cycle. As the availability of HPC innovations increases the pressure is ...
EDE, Recycling, and a Discussion of TGG Metrics
March 14th, 2013
TGG hopes to build up a new metric called Electronics Disposal Efficiency, or EDE, that measures how well companies and institutions recycle, or dispose of, their EOCU or EOL (End of current use and end of life, respectively) IT ...
The Dawn of Virtual Factories
March 13th, 2013
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/virtualfactory.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="63" />From long-distance communication to virtual business meetings, the evolution of digital connectedness has not only saved business untold funds and resources, they have also fundamentally changed the business model of many companies. ...
Heat-Trapping and NREL’s Green Datacenter Leadership Effort
March 13th, 2013
The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and their new $10 million HPC facility seeks to set the standard on green computing worldwide. The datacenter is part of the lab's new Energy Systems Integration Facility (ESIF), whose HPC implementations will ...
Microsoft Demos 3D Scanning Systems
March 12th, 2013
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/kinectfusion.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="63" />Although 3D scanning technology has been available for some time, high costs, cumbersome equipment and sluggish processing time has kept in from winning consumer popularity. So when Microsoft previewed its fast and ...
UK Bolsters Energy Efficient Computing Commitment
March 12th, 2013
This time of economic hardship for the United States government means that private corporations along with governments of other countries must pick up the green computing research slack. The United Kingdom is helping with that load by recently announcing ...
Interxion Uses Sea Water to Cool Stockholm Data Centers
March 11th, 2013
The type of efficiency Interxion is experiencing in Stockholm is most commonly associated with facilities using air economization (free cooling) to leverage the cool environment in cool servers. But Interxion doesn’t use air economization. It uses chilled water, because ...
MIT Cultivates Artificial Leaf
March 11th, 2013
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/artificialleaf.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="64" />Nature may have long ago captured the power of the sun through photosynthesis, but, with the help of MIT, man is one step closer to bridging that gap. With the recent publishing ...
Going "Lean" with Robots
March 11th, 2013
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/leanrobot.png" alt="" width="95" height="77" />When you take into account wages, overtime and benefits that human employees require, it's no wonder that robots are quickly becoming the go-to technology for manufacturers across multiple industries. But lean manufacturing ...
‘Robot Brain’ Goes Live in the Cloud
March 11th, 2013
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/digital_brain.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="71" />European scientists have turned on the first part of a web-based database to help robots learn about what they encounter in the human world. The database, known as Rapyuta, is an online ...
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