Covering Scientific & Technical AI | Wednesday, July 8, 2026
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
Snyder Pushes Michigan to Approve Driverless Cars
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/snyder.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="71" />It's easy to laugh at the image of the 21st century that generations past have conjured up: flying cars, robot servants, and other commodities exclusive to books and TV shows like The Jetsons. But self-driving cars are not as far away as we may think. Just this week, ... Full article
Lab-Grown Kidney Transplant a Success
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/kidney.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="130" />This week, bioengineers have come one step closer to making lab-grown organs a viable option for those in need of a transplant. Scientists at Massachusetts General Hospital implanted rats with lab-grown kidneys, which, upon transplantation, began to filter the animals' blood to make urine. Full article
Making Datacenters Application Aware
To save on escalating datacenter costs, companies are taking different approaches to datacenter design. Some open the doors and let the cold air chill the servers, whole others use seawater to keep the server heat down. TSO Logic is focused on energy efficiency at the software level.<br />  Full article
Harvard Harnesses Solar Power through the Grid
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/pvc.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="41" />This June, Harvard's Clean Energy Project will release a list of the top 20,000 organic compounds used for the printing of cheap photovoltaic cells (PVCs) to solar power developers. If the effort is successful, the cost to cover a one-meter square wall with PVCs could equal the cost ... Full article
Linux: Coming to an Infotainment System Near You
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/agl.png" alt="" width="95" height="56" />Open source: when it comes to operating systems, we're all for it, but as soon as you move into financial services or the automotive industry, people begin to get a bit wary. After all, billions of dollars or millions of lives could be on the line. But all ... Full article
GE Unveils Thousands of Patents
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/quirkyge.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="53" />Patents: they are the fortress behind which inventors and companies shield their creations. They have been credited with everything from protecting the livelihood of brave inventors to allowing pharmaceutical costs to skyrocket. Now, GE is inviting the entire innovative community into its stronghold by opening thousands of patents. Full article
NREL’s Skynet Stays Cool with RackCDU
The U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) is relocating its Skynet HPC cluster to a new datacenter at the Energy Systems Integration Facility (ESIF) in Golden, Colo. At the heart of this move is Asetek's RackCDU direct-to-chip "hot water" cooling system.  Full article
MIT, Harvard Pattern Graphene with DNA
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/grapheneDNA.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="52" />Despite graphene's seemingly magical properties, the material isn't as easy to work with as hopeful headlines suggest. But a research breakthrough from MIT and Harvard could solve the material's problems, making it possible to be used as a semiconductor, or a transistor for quantum applications. Full article
Humans and Robots Converge at Innorobo 2013
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/innorobo.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="63" />From March 19th to the 21st, record crowds came into Cite Internationale in Lyon, France, with over 15,000 entries for Innorobo 2013, an annual conference centered around the demonstration of today's service robots. Featuring everything from commercially available products to cutting-edge robot concepts, the event is a playground ... Full article
Sidestepping Moore’s Law with Micro-Manufacturing
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/chiplet.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="63" />Despite decades of effort into shrinking down electronic circuits, computer chips of today are still made on relatively large wafers that pack no more than hundreds of circuits on their surfaces. But a new project funded by the NSF and DARPA aims to change that with the help ... Full article
Manufacturing Sees Boost in 2014 Budget
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/piggybank.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="122" />Despite significant spending cuts to Medicare and defense, President Obama's proposed budget for Fiscal Year 2014 had added funding across the board for manufacturers, reflecting his determination that the industry will be the lynchpin for building a stronger middle class. Full article
Using Software to Make Datacenters Greener
It’s no secret that supercomputers require a lot of energy to run. Organizations have tried using different cooling methods to keep the cost of running a datacenter down, while Adaptive Computing is going about things a different way, with workload management software. Full article
Manufacturers Struggling to Meet Green Goals
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/greengear.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="57" />Manufacturers may be pushing to reduce carbon emissions, but a new report from MIT says that despite significant advancements in energy efficiency, materials manufacturers are not on track to meet carbon-emissions reduction goals by 2050. Full article
Cantrell Speaks on Success and Future of Icelandic Datacenters
Last week, GCR caught up with Cantrell to discuss the recent AFCOM award nomination, how the Icelandic datacenter came to be, and how it has attracted as much attention as it has received. Full article
Could Datacenters Go Natural?
As organizations continue to research cheaper and more efficient ways to power and cool their datacenters, TeraCool has hit on a method that could achieve both for free. The organization is proposing that datacenters be located near natural gas plants, which could provide a center’s cooling and power for nothing. Full article
SAP Syncs Up with Industry 4.0
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/windfarm.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="71" />What do machine-to-machine (M2M) communication, the Internet of Things and automation have in common? According to SAP, they are all taking us into what the company is calling “Industry 4.0,” the merger between interconnected industrial equipment and next-generation IT, which has driven the company's latest software updates for ... Full article
3D Printing Enters the Operating Room
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/3dorgan.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="63" />A major focus of 3D printing is and has been for a while the promise for eventual home-grown organs that can help shorten long transplant waiting lists and ultimately save lives. But one application of 3D-printed tissues that hasn't received much attention is the ability of these lab-grown ... Full article
CD-adapco Brings Support to Simulation
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/cdadapco.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="73" />At this year's STAR Global Conference, CD-adapco announced that it is poised to take on some of the most complex simulation challenges facing today's engineers. Armed with usability and performance upgrades, the company's flagship offering looks ambitious, but the company has also made it clear that support offerings ... Full article
GM Puts $332 Million toward Four Plant Upgrades
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/detroit.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="71" />As we see the automotive industry shift away from big six and eight-cylinder engines and look instead at packing the most power into the compact four-cylinder, it's become clear that efficiency is rapidly becoming the key to the next-gen automobile. And that was precisely the motivation behind General ... Full article