Covering Scientific & Technical AI | Wednesday, July 8, 2026
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
DOE Chips in for Energy-Efficient Manufacturing
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/SMLC.png" alt="" width="95" height="95" />The Smart Manufacturing Leadership Coalition has announced $7.8 million award from the Advanced Manufacturing Program at the DOE's Office of Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy, making clear that the push for greener factories still has a lot of weight behind it. With it, the SMLC hopes to develop ... Full article
Put that Old Data in Cold Storage
Digital data creation is exploding faster than a YouTube viral video. With emerging markets joining the networked world and with the spectacular growth in stored data, there’s a new demand for ways to store both old and new data. Full article
Green Computing’s Final Four (of the week) Data Centers
Every week features many new green data center announcements, from their planning to their completion. This week, Green Computing Report is highlighting four (a Final Four, if you will, since it’s that time of year) initiatives and facilities that have piqued the interest of the green computing world. Full article
VA Tech Taps Plants for Hydrogen Fuel
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/zhang.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="64" />Earlier this week we covered Virginia Tech's Navy-funded, man-sized robotic jellyfish, but it seems even that wasn't enough news for one week. Now a team of VA Tech researchers have discovered a way to extract large amounts of hydrogen from any plant, which could be instrumental in providing ... Full article
GE Proficy Goes Mobile
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/proficymobile.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="139" />When we think of analytics, we often picture the tidy offices of suit-and-tie-wearing employees—not the hubbub of a factory floor. This is a problem General Electric hopes to solve with the recent announcement of its Proficy Mobile platform, which has been designed to give operators the data they ... Full article
NCAR, Captain of the Green Enterprise (Awards)
The Boulder-based NCAR won the "Facility Design Implementation" category for its sustainable approach in designing and building the new NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputing Center (NWSC), which is also home to the Yellowstone supercomputer. H+L Architecture and RMH Group, an engineering firm, shared the award with NCAR for their role in the design of the facility and its ... Full article
DOE Teams Drive Closer to the Future of Trucking
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/supertruck.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="46" />With tractor-trailers accounting for 12 percent of fuel consumption in the United States, big rigs don't get their name for size alone. As a result, these highway goliaths have been a focus of the Department of Energy's SuperTruck program—an effort that will hopefully cut fuel consumption in half ... Full article
The Evolution of Green Data Center Optimization
Over the last few weeks, Green Computing Report has shone the spotlight on various optimization methods, including Google’s research to improve their air cooling system. What is rarely mentioned is the journey leading to the discovery of these optimization solutions. A research team out of Arizona State is trying to reverse that trend in their ... Full article
Navy Invests in Giant “RoboJelly”
A perpetual hurdle in the field of robotics is motion: refining how robots travel, balance, and interact with their physical surroundings. While an overwhelming majority of roboticists continue to fixate on legs, feet and wheels that will one day carry their creations around on land, engineers at Virginia Tech and the University of Texas at ... Full article
Autodesk Beefs Up 2014 Design Suites
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/autodeskfactory.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="61" />It's that time of year again—everyone is hitting the gym to get ready for summer. But with the recent announcement of its 2014 Design Suites, 3D design giant Autodesk is beefing up in a slightly different way. The release includes changes to both the Product Design and Factory ... Full article
MIT Course Puts Tech on the Brain
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/neurotech.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="54" />It used to be that passwords were just that—a word. Then they had to include a number, and many sites now require a special character like an asterisk or exclamation point as well. But as websites require increasingly complex passwords, they become increasingly difficult to users remember, creating ... Full article
The End of the Line for Roadrunner
The Roadrunner has finally been stopped, but not by Wile. E. Coyote. Built by IBM, the $120 million supercomputer was decommissioned on March 31. It was the first machine to ever perform at over a petaflop and from June 2008-09 was named the fastest supercomputer in the Top 500. Roadrunner is still one of the ... Full article
Taking the Polar Plunge into the Node Pole
Nature doesn’t charge for air conditioning. That’s important for big tech companies who look to save their bottom line along with the environment as they build massive data centers to store and process their massive data. The Node Pole, an efficient data center group, looks to take advantage of that cooling and attract potential facilities ... Full article
Tesla Expects First-Ever Profit
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/models.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="63" />Despite today's news of the U.S. manufacturing sector's slowing growth, electric car pioneer Tesla Motors is expecting to post its first-ever quarterly profit after sales of its Model S exceeded expectations. The company anticipated selling 4,500 units its Model S this quarter, but sales over this past weekend ... Full article
Altair Assimilates Parasolid into HyperWorks
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/parasolid.png" alt="" width="95" height="62" />“Assimilation” may have taken on a negative connotation for those familiar with the Borg, but dystopian sci-fi examples aside, assimilation is at the core of any business looking to keep ahead of the competition—a fact that has led Altair to expand its software license agreement with Siemens PLM ... Full article
Reining In Brown Energy Usage
When renewable energy gets into the IT power mix, it adds a new wrinkle. While data centers and facilities could simply treat that power the same as that of coal or oil, regulating workflow such that the majority of IT functions run on green energy would be a significantly more environmentally friendly way to operate. Full article
Google’s Needham Shows It’s Easy Being Green
Rick Needham, director of energy and sustainability at Google, gave a presentation at the Cleantech Forum in San Francisco arguing that not only does the future of energy lie in green, but this future is cheaper as well. Full article
ORNL Brings Photonic Curing to Market
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/flexcircuit.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="68" />The transition from academia to industry is where most technologies and medical treatments meet their end, which has led the Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer to recognize ORNL helping to bring its pulse thermal processing technology to the private sector. Full article
Google Glass to Be "Made in America"
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/googleglass.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="76" />In a consumer market where the smallest computers such as tablets and smartphones are rapidly becoming must-have items, Google's new eyeglass-sized “Glass” is the talk of the town. But unlike most other computer manufacturers, Google will not be looking overseas to produce its bold new eyewear, according to ... Full article