Covering Scientific & Technical AI | Wednesday, July 8, 2026
3D-Printed Skull Implants Enter the OR
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/osteofab.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="85" border="0" />When we wrote about Jiahone Guo, who suffered a blow to the head during a soccer match and needed a custom cranial implant to save his life, CNC was the manufacturing process of choice, but that may be changing. Recently, the FDA approved a 3D-printed PEKK (polyether ... Full article
GMU and NCMS Celebrate Launch of New Center for Collision Safety & Analysis
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/gmuncms.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="77" border="0" />An upcoming event will mark the launch of a new research center at George Mason University, with GMU administrators, staff from the National Center for Manufacturing Sciences (NCMS), government officials, and representatives from the transportation industry in attendance. The occasion celebrates the Center for Collision Safety and ... Full article
3D Printers Hit US Staples Stores
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/staplescube.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="95" border="0" />When we wrote about 3D printing stations coming to Staples stores in Europe last year, everyone expected the company's next major announcement to be that the same “Easy 3D” printing service would be coming to the US. Instead, the office supply chain has announced that entire 3D ... Full article
Intel to Manufacture Its Own Destiny?
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/krzanich.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="85" border="0" />On Thursday, Intel announced that it has chosen a successor to take the reins from Paul Otellini, who announced his intention to retire six months ago. Taking his place is former COO Brian Krzanich, who will take over at Intel's annual stockholders' meeting on May 16. But ... Full article
3D-Printed Ear Offers Herculean Hearing
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/3dprintedear.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="64" border="0" />There are few things as precious to humans as the preservation of our senses, with sight and hearing ranking as two of the most vital faculties we have. Maintaining these senses through eyeglasses or hearing aids is often a top priority, but what if we could enhance ... Full article
Breaking the Sound Barrier with HPC
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/bloodhound.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="68" border="0" />In 1997, a car called ThrustSSC became the first car to break the sound barrier as it blasted across the Arizona desert, establishing the current land-speed record of 763 mph. Now, several members of the ThrustSSC team, including project director Richard Noble and driver Andy Green, have ... Full article
Amid Sweeping Budget Cuts, Obama Stands by STEM
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/ObamaNAS.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="63" border="0" />At the 150th anniversary of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) this week, President Barack Obama said the nation cannot afford to make sweeping budget cuts that threaten to stall the depth and pace of research, saying that this could put us years behind in research and ... Full article
The Challenges of Energy Efficient Exascale Computing
At some point, the advancement in computer technology will lead to computing at one exaflops, or a thousand petaflops. Achieving this landmark goal is driving datacenters to meet the power and cooling requirements necessary to house that sort of computational power. Full article
From Striped Toothpaste to Lithium-Ion Batteries
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/parc.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="63" border="0" />PARC, an NCMS member company, is a name you might not recognize but really is someone you do know. Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Centre (PARC) has been responsible for the computer mouse, GUI, icons, windows, Ethernet and the laser printer, and are still as innovative as ever ... Full article
PLM: Formula for Racing Success
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/vettel.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="63" border="0" />When talking about Formula One auto racing, most people think of one thing: speed. Each driver and each car has been fine-tuned to consistently put down the lap times that are within milliseconds of what is physically possible. But in F1, speed isn’t a quality exclusive to ... Full article
Mavericks Push the Green Envelope
Power consumption and cooling may be concerns for all IT departments, but high performance computing (HPC) demands large amounts of both. GigaOM held a webinar on Tue., April 23, entitled “Green HPC: how IT mavericks push the envelope with clean computing” Full article
Robots Invade St. Louis
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/firstrobotics.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="71" border="0" />Over 30,000 teenagers boosted the IQ within the Edward Jones Dome in St. Louis this week to take part in the U.S. FIRST Robotics championship. The 21-year-old annual competition brings kids aged six to 18 from across the country and around the world to put their robots ... Full article
GE Casts Welding Aside for Jet Engines
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/geleap.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="49" border="0" />Historically, the manufacture of jet engines has revolved around the centuries-old processes of casting and welding. But GE may trigger a change in the industry by departing from this process and opting instead to use lasers and metal allow powder to create these ultra-precise components. Full article
Manufacturing Fuels Supercomputing Growth
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/titan.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="58" border="0" />Big rigs have become a staple of the American highway, but lately they've become an uncomfortable metaphor for our country as a whole. They're big, they're wasteful, and harmful to the environment. This problem led Mike Henderson, president of SmartTruck to get access to the world's most ... Full article
Is a Zero-Watt Solution Worth the Wait?
Today's businesses move at a rapid pace. Datacenters need to keep up with that pace. However, a datacenter will use up energy to instantaneously access a file. SGI proposes that waiting a few seconds can save thousands of watts of power.  Full article
Investor Bets Big on 3D Printing
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/shapeways.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="63" border="0" />Andreessen Horowitz, a Silicon Valley investment firm, is known for placing big bets on a small number of companies and industries, but today it upped the ante with a $30 million bet all on one company: Shapeways, a growing player in the 3D printing industry. Full article
Earth Day Special: Making Datacenters Greener
Datacenters consume 94.8 billion pounds of CO2 every year. Half of a datacenter's power goes to cooling. To celebrate Earth Day, Fusion-io created an infographic to share ways datacenter energy consumption can be reduced through the use of flash instead of disk. Full article
Earth Day Special: 10 Reasons Why You’ll be Buried Alive
The United States has more trash than any other country in the world, throwing away over 500 billion pounds of garbage every year. As an Earth Day special for <em>Green Computing Report</em>, the infographic below details how Americans distribute their trash. Full article
On Cloud Nine
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/ubercloud.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="62" border="0" />Large industrial plants and their need for higher accuracy are increasing the computational intensity of simulation in process industries. But on most systems, with added complexity comes sacrifices in time and ultimately money. So when F L Smidth's multiphase flow model for their new flash dryer took ... Full article
Lithium-Ion Battery Charges Smartphone in Seconds
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/smartphonebattery.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="63" />Lithium-ion batteries seem to be used in nearly any type electronic device today – from our smartphones, to laptops, and even to power electric cars or the Boeing Dreamliner. Now, researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have developed a new lithium-ion battery that may not be ... Full article