Covering Scientific & Technical AI | Wednesday, July 8, 2026
Has Boeing Extinguished its Dreamliner Woes?
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/dreamliner.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="63" />A little over a week after Boeing began testing its new battery system for its 787 Dreamliner with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the company has announced that it expects to complete certifications within a matter of weeks, not months. Full article
Cloud Computing Tames Big Data to Extract Value
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/cloudschematic.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="121" />Cloud computing is much more than just a bunch of third-party servers running at a remote location so businesses can stop spending money on computer hardware. Cloud computing, or more specifically high performance computing in the cloud (HPC cloud), is an opportunity for a single enterprise or an ... Full article
Pfeiffer Dishes on Data Center Metrics and Trends
Power Assure’s CTO Clemens Pfeiffer spoke with Green Computing Report this week about ten trends he sees controlling the green computing world in the coming years. The discussion inevitably turned to the state of green IT as a whole, where he noted that too much emphasis was being placed on metrics such that they are ... Full article
Superhuman Machines Emerge from DARPA Robotics Challenge
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/chimp.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="143" />Only a few months have passed since the teams for the DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC) were announced, but already many of the competitors are beginning to take shape (and action). The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency announced the competition last October, aiming to advance robotics technology for ... Full article
Good-bye Gas Tanks, Hello Hydrogen Fuel Cells
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/Suzuki-SX4-Hydrogen-Fuel-Cell-Vehicle.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="50" />Considered to be a cleaner, more efficient way to power vehicles, carmakers have been working for years to bring hydrogen fuel cells to the public, but so far little progress has been made. However, Suzuki may be reversing this trend with the unveiling of a new hydrogen fuel ... Full article
EDE, Recycling, and a Discussion of TGG Metrics
TGG hopes to build up a new metric called Electronics Disposal Efficiency, or EDE, that measures how well companies and institutions recycle, or dispose of, their EOCU or EOL (End of current use and end of life, respectively) IT machines. The need for new metrics to gain acceptance and usage in the green technology community ... Full article
Proteus Offers Modeling Hub for Engineering Students
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/modelica.png" alt="" width="95" height="56" />Manufacturers may have already moved their modeling to the cloud, but in academia, the cloud has been largely overlooked, preventing the type of collaboration many professionals already take advantage of. This problem prompted a team of researchers from Nanyang Technological Institute to develop Proteus – an academic hub ... Full article
Altair Takes HyperWorks to the Cloud
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/hyperworks.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="63" />Manufacturers rely on CAE software providers to solve increasingly complex problems to deliver more competitive products through a streamlined product life cycle. As the availability of HPC innovations increases the pressure is put on CAE providers to keep up, as can be seen in Altair's recent release of ... Full article
Heat-Trapping and NREL’s Green Datacenter Leadership Effort
The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and their new $10 million HPC facility seeks to set the standard on green computing worldwide. The datacenter is part of the lab's new Energy Systems Integration Facility (ESIF), whose HPC implementations will be installed in multiple phases – the first one started in November of 2012 and will ... Full article
The Dawn of Virtual Factories
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/virtualfactory.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="63" />From long-distance communication to virtual business meetings, the evolution of digital connectedness has not only saved business untold funds and resources, they have also fundamentally changed the business model of many companies. Now, as 3D virtualization comes within manufacturers' grasps, we are beginning to see a similar process ... Full article
UK Bolsters Energy Efficient Computing Commitment
This time of economic hardship for the United States government means that private corporations along with governments of other countries must pick up the green computing research slack. The United Kingdom is helping with that load by recently announcing a round of funding designed to bolster Britain’s standing in the tech world. Full article
Microsoft Demos 3D Scanning Systems
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/kinectfusion.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="63" />Although 3D scanning technology has been available for some time, high costs, cumbersome equipment and sluggish processing time has kept in from winning consumer popularity. So when Microsoft previewed its fast and potentially inexpensive 3D scanning research at last week's TechFest, the demonstrations were a quick hit. Full article
Interxion Uses Sea Water to Cool Stockholm Data Centers
The type of efficiency Interxion is experiencing in Stockholm is most commonly associated with facilities using air economization (free cooling) to leverage the cool environment in cool servers. But Interxion doesn’t use air economization. It uses chilled water, because it does not have to be cooled over time. Full article
Going "Lean" with Robots
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/leanrobot.png" alt="" width="95" height="77" />When you take into account wages, overtime and benefits that human employees require, it's no wonder that robots are quickly becoming the go-to technology for manufacturers across multiple industries. But lean manufacturing – a type of manufacturing that predates the advent of robotics – still hasn't jumped on ... Full article
‘Robot Brain’ Goes Live in the Cloud
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/digital_brain.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="71" />European scientists have turned on the first part of a web-based database to help robots learn about what they encounter in the human world. The database, known as Rapyuta, is an online “brain” that describes objects robots have come across and is capable of performing complicated computation for ... Full article
MIT Cultivates Artificial Leaf
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/artificialleaf.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="64" />Nature may have long ago captured the power of the sun through photosynthesis, but, with the help of MIT, man is one step closer to bridging that gap. With the recent publishing of a new paper addressing potential design flaws of an artificial leaf, researchers are helping to ... Full article
eBay Builds Energy Efficiency Dashboard
in the hands of eBay, it could mean the start of a conversation that brings about a new focus on the green technology movement. This week at The Green Grid Forum 2013, eBay debuted their Digital Service Efficiency dashboard, a device that effectively stakes their claim as a leader in the energy efficient computing discussion. Full article
Creating Cranial Implants with CAD
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/GuoSkull.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="76" />After suffering an accidental blow to the head during a soccer match, Jiahone Guo's brain began to swell. The odds of surviving such a trauma were about 50-50, but traditional skull grafts can lower these odds further by increasing the risk of infection. But new implants created through ... Full article
The Green Grid Forum 2013 Tackles Metrics, Standards
This year’s The Green Grid Forum opened up a dialogue about efficiencies and regulations within the data center industry, giving organizations the opportunity to standardize and measure the amount of energy they use. Full article
Bringing Price Optimization to Manufacturing
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/priceoptimization.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="92" />While PLM platforms often dominate manufacturing-specific software news, analytics for digital manufactures is steadily gaining momentum. But you don't have to be a manufacturing giant to take advantage of big data, as Horizon Milling demonstrated through its successful implementation of the price-optimization platform, MarginMax. Full article