Covering Scientific & Technical AI | Wednesday, July 8, 2026
Know What Your Server Costs
With data centers beginning to exhaust their electrical capacity, it’s becoming increasingly important for organizations to know the total cost of ownership for these data centers. By estimating server consumption and knowing the resulting business expenses, organizations will extend the life of a data center and save money and electricity. Full article
Could the Human Brain Inspire High Efficiency Computing?
At just under 2500 Megaflops per Watt, the Appro Beacon machine at the University of Tennessee comes in at the top of the Green 500 list. Yet underlying this are the minds that designed that facility. More succinctly, the brain could be that most efficient computing system, and thanks to new research from IBM, it ... Full article
A New Liquid Cooling Solution
By replacing air conditioning systems with liquid cooling systems, Liquid Cool Solutions hopes to bring about higher efficiency regarding floor space, noise pollution, and of course effectively lowering the temperature of IT systems. Full article
Creating the Google of 3D Search
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/search.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="75" />What do you get when you combine 3D modeling with Google? According to manufacturing startup 3D Industri.es (3DI), the answer is 3dpartsource.com, their 3D geometric shape-based search engine. 3DI's tool will allow users to upload a 3D design to the search engine, where it will then be matched ... Full article
ORNL Kicks off Clean Energy Initiative with New Carbon Fiber Facility
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/cftf.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="63" />In his 2013 State of the Union Address, President Obama cited clean energy technology and advanced manufacturing as the foundation upon which the U.S. economy could be rebuilt. One more brick of that economic groundwork was laid on Tuesday with the opening of Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Carbon ... Full article
Google Uses PUE Properly in POP Optimization
It is refreshing when Google releases a case study where the measurement of PUE is utilized in the actual manner for which it was intended. Specifically, they measured, ran models, and optimized cooling procedures for several of their “Points of Presence,” or POPs, which are equivalent to small-to-medium sized data centers. Full article
Will Around-the-Clock Support Come in with the Reshoring Tide?
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/reshoringboat.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="70" />Whether you're dealing with millions of dollars' worth of automation equipment or you've had to call customer support for a new laptop, chances are you've had to deal with off-shore support centers. While it may feel like none of these support centers are in the U.S. anymore, one ... Full article
Reaching the Frontier of Aerospace Engineering
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/ALENIA7.png" alt="" width="95" height="63" />When charged with designing a state-of-the-art machine, most designers embark with one or two primary objectives in mind, knowing it will come at the expense of other goals. So when Alenia Aermacchi had to design an aircraft that was aerodynamic, lightweight and green, they turned to ESTECO to ... Full article
Data Centers go Green in Singapore
Energy efficient data centers have been cropping up all over Europe the last few years. Now, the boom has come to Singapore, and with it the need to make data centers as energy efficient as possible. To meet this need, Singapore has created a new standard for green data center design, which has begun taking ... Full article
MIT Sets Robot Collision Course
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/fastrunner.png" alt="" width="95" height="188" />When we task a robot with moving its arm from one point in space to another, it is governed by only a few simple equations. But real-world physics applications are anything but simple, which has led MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory to develop a new mathematical ... Full article
Big Green Facilities in the Big Apple
Yahoo opened with announcing the expansion of their facility in Lockport, New York. Elsewhere in New York, Sabey Corporation may have pulled off an even more impressive feat in securing a 32-story data center…in Manhattan. Full article
Apple Makes Peace with Greenpeace
Apple may not be running the Maiden facility on 100 percent renewable energy as they claim. However, the intention to do well appears to be there, and, perhaps somewhat surprisingly, Greenpeace seems to be on board with it. Full article
The Future of Driving Comes to GTC
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/hondaHUD.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="54" />In the past decade, in-car electronics have evolved from cigarette lighter-powered TomTom to sophisticated infotainment systems that integrate your phone, GPS and even your iPod. But based on the automotive seminars that took place at this week's GPU Technology Conference, navigation and hands-free calling may be considered downright ... Full article
Building a Better Hog
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/800px-Harley-davidson.JPG" alt="" width="95" height="57" />Harley-Davidson is using both the film and gaming industries to help speed up their design time. By repurposing the GPUs that both industries rely on to power Harley-Davidson's design process, the motorcycle company has shaved months off of their design process. Full article
The Sweet Spot of Research & Development
Digital manufacturing covers a broad range of technologies and trying to predict their evolution and course can be an uncertain process. As a company, you can forgo the latest technologies as a passing fad and really miss out as your competitors embrace the cutting edge and advance. So how do companies decide when to embrace ... Full article
Graphene Comes to Flash Memory
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/flashstorage.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="71" />The single-atom thick material known has graphene has been at the center of both research and the Nobel Prize recently thanks to its ultra-thin build and unique electronic properties, spanning applications from water desalination to solar cells. But graphene's usefulness is not exclusive to these applications, as demonstrated ... Full article
Finding Green IT in the Fjords of Norway
A lot of attention has been paid to green data centers in northern climates, particularly in Scandinavia where Google has built a green data center in Finland while others have built centers in Sweden and Norway. Fjord IT, a two-year old startup company based in Norway (in case it wasn’t apparent from the use of ... Full article
From Weapons Production to Water Purification
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/graphene.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="53" />Branching out from its reputation for jet fighters and missiles, defense contractor Lockheed Martin has discovered a means for desalinating seawater that requires a fraction of the energy needed for current systems. The process works by filtering water through nanometer-sized holes in graphene – carbon membranes that measure ... Full article
NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang Takes Design to the Grid at GTC
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/gtckeynote1.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="75" />Whether companies use big data for quality testing, product tracking or price optimization, data volumes are growing to unprecedented levels for major organizations and small to medium-sized manufacturers (SMMs) alike. Hoping to address this issue is NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang, who addressed solutions for organizations of all sizes ... Full article
Does Green Sacrifice Performance for Efficiency?
There are a lot of details around the battle to implement energy efficient high performance computers but when you slog through all those mentions of UPS’s, ARM chips, air and water cooling systems, you get down to one central question: to what extent should performance be sacrificed for efficiency’s sake? Full article