Covering Scientific & Technical AI | Wednesday, July 8, 2026
Green500 Founder on Getting to Exascale: ‘Something’s Gotta Change’
<p>After the latest Green500 rankings were announced on Friday, <em>Green Computing Report</em> caught up with list founder Professor Wu Feng. While there's been some impressive movement at the top of the list, the overall energy-efficiency numbers do not bode well for exascale projections. </p> Full article
Broken Bone? 3D Printing Can Help
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/cortex.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="67" border="0" />We’ve already seen 3D printing make its grand entrance in the biomedical field with a polymer-based trachea, skull plate, and 3D-printed organs and stem cells. Now, it looks like the technology has come one step closer to giving our skeletal system a hand, with recent advancements in ... Full article
How the Cloud Will Help the U.S. Regain Manufacturing Prowess
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/hpcccloud.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="67" border="0" />Since his last column about how the Cloud and Autonomic Computing Center at Texas Tech University, Earl Dodd attended the kickoff meeting in May. There he was convinced that participation in the new Center will propel individual digital manufacturers up the value chain while helping the United ... Full article
New Working Group Targets Low-Carbon Power Sourcing
Adobe, eBay, Facebook, HP, salesforce.com, and Symantec are working with BSR to create a greener Internet.  Full article
Sandia Labs Finds Energy-Efficient Method for Powering Ships
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/800px-Line0534.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="61" border="0" />Automakers are busy at work developing a hydrogen fuel cell specifically for cars. But researchers at Sandia National Laboratories may have expanded the clean energy source’s role to include docked or anchored ships. Full article
Nine Teams Break into the Next Round of the DARPA Robotics Challenge
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/VRCATLAS.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="52" border="0" />Last week marked the DARPA Robotics Challenge’s first major test: the Virtual Robotics Challenge (VRC). From June 17-21, 26 teams from an original pool of 126 battled to the top six spots in a virtual disaster area, but in an interesting twist, nine teams will be moving ... Full article
An Interview with EMC’s Chief Sustainability Officer
Green Computing Report speaks with EMC's Chief Sustainability Officer Kathrin Winkler about the company's latest sustainability report, the major drivers for energy efficiency and a new way of thinking about IT's carbon footprint.  Full article
Apple Plans 20MW Solar Farm to Power Reno Datacenter
Apple Inc., once criticized as a wasteful energy consumer, now has its sights set on creating a renewable energy empire. Full article
Energy-Efficient Planning for Heterogeneous Computing Systems
Prominent researcher discusses work on energy-aware scheduling algorithms for heterogenous computing systems.  Full article
Study Paints Cloud with Green Brush
Researchers from Harvard and Reading University released a study on Thursday portraying cloud as 95 percent more energy-efficient than on-site computing. Full article
Solar Panels Slim Down
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/800px-20110420-RD-LSC-0880_-_Flickr_-_USDAgov.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="63" border="0" />Researchers at MIT have recently discovered a way to create solar panels that are thousands of times thinner than previous models, and even lighter than tissue paper. Full article
Materials Upstage the Human Genome Project
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/MGI.png" alt="" width="95" height="95" border="0" />New materials may drive new technologies both for their manufacture as well as their applications, but births of these so-called “game-changing” materials are few and far between, with new materials requiring an average of 18 years to reach the market. Hoping to cut down on this time ... Full article
What’s Stopping Datacenter Progress?
Technologies such as virtualization, cloud computing, big data, and converged infrastructures are the standouts of modern datacenter design. Yet most datacenters in operation today are unable to implement these best practice principles.  Full article
Green500: Italian Firm Raises the Stakes with NVIDIA Kepler Parts
The latest Green500 rankings were announced Friday morning. Compared to the November 2012 list, the current version has a lot of familiar elements, but a couple of surprises as well.  Full article
Miniature Robots and More Come to Life with 3D-Printed Microbattery
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/microbattery.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="74" border="0" />When you think of taking something with “a grain of salt,” you might be taking it lightly, but you shouldn’t be quick to dismiss this grain-sized technology from engineers at Harvard University and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. There, they’ve managed to 3D-print a working tiny ... Full article
Breaking Down Barriers to HPC
The tale of the "missing middle" is all-too-common for many small-to-medium-sized manufacturers looking for a digital leg up on their competition. And at this year's International Supercomputing Conference, the topic did not go overlooked. Here we'll take a look at ISC13's chat that sought to answer the question of how high performance computing can help ... Full article
MIT Creates Steamless CO2 Scrubbers
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/800px-Wzwz_heizkraftwerk_mtb_1.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="71" border="0" />Researchers at MIT have discovered a way to eliminate carbon dioxide from the emissions without the previously used steam connection. Not only that, but it can operate at lower temperatures and it can adapt easily to any existing power plant. Full article
Autodesk Unveils Fusion 360 in the Cloud
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/fusion360.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="63" border="0" />While individual manufacturers have been have begun a gradual drift toward cloud adoption, Autodesk could help them on the way their cloud-based Fusion 360 platform. And in the spirit of housing the complete toolset in one place, the company has also torn down the traditional design and ... Full article
Climate Change Threatens Economic Development
According to a new scientific report commissioned by the World Bank, rising global temperatures are threatening the health and livelihoods of the most vulnerable populations.  Full article
Understanding PC Power Management
IT assets like desktop PCs, printers and servers are major users of energy, but not all of it is going to production. PCs in the US waste $2.8 billion a year in energy by remaining "on" when not in use.  Full article