Covering Scientific & Technical AI | Wednesday, July 8, 2026
Manufacturing Meat: 24th Century Style
<div><img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/KlingonFoodInReplicator.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="95" /></div> Characters in Star Trek frequently complain that replicated food just simply is not the genuine article. Soon, we may understand what they are talking about. Modern Meadow, a United States-based startup founded by father-son team Gabor and Andras Forgacs, is in the planning stages of a project that ... Full article
Massachusetts Universities Plant Green Datacenter
<p>Opening in November of 2012, the Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center (MGHPCC) is a collaboration effort among five Massachusetts universities to build and run some good old-fashioned HPC applications, but at a lower cost to the environment.</p> Full article
Fitting PLM Into The Digital Manufacturing Puzzle
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/plm.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="82" />Regardless of market circumstance, be it bust or boom, business leadership has to focus on managing the product lifecycle as efficiently as possible at every stage. In difficult market conditions, the challenge is to maintain market presence in the face of low demand, disproportionate costs and the introduction ... Full article
GE’s Vision for the Industrial Internet
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/operator.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="67" />General Electric recently announced the launch of its latest plank of the Proficy software platform, Proficy Vision – a big data management tool with a manufacturing slant. To find out more about GE's roadmap for the industrial Internet and how Proficy Vision fits into this plan, we spoke ... Full article
Obama’s Address Outlines Green Strategy
<p>US President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address on Tuesday night touched on many of the country’s hot-button issues, including reducing gun violence, improving the country’s education system, and slowing climate change. That third issue directly affects the world of green IT, as proposals get drawn up that could change the rules of the ... Full article
Obama’s Take on the State of Manufacturing
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/obamasotu.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="63" />In his State of the Union Address Tuesday night, President Obama announced that he plans to use his executive powers to launch three manufacturing hubs and is calling on Congress to create 15 more. The goal is to foster partnerships between the federal government and the private sector ... Full article
Mapping Manufacturing’s Changing Landscape
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/sumandas.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="119" />It seems that every week we read about yet another revolutionary use case for additive manufacturing – whether it be organs, stem cells, rocket engines or even food. As the industry explodes, however, it becomes increasingly difficult to map out its trajectory. Full article
Examining the PUE Metric
<p>In-depth metrics like OPS (on-base plus slugging percentage) developed in baseball to describe a batter’s efficiency and power at the plate, discounting things like game situation, and sacrifice and base-running ability. There exist similar metrics to describe the specific in the world of green computing. The Green 500 list is ranked on Megaflops/Watt, a statistic ... Full article
The Robot Revolution: Panacea or Pandora’s Box?
With offshore labor costs continuing to rise, the need for cheaper labor and cheaper energy has forced many manufacturers to rethink their strategies. According to Peak Prosperity's Gregor MacDonald, resource scarcity and the diminishing supply of the cheapest global labor will push us toward something a bit more radical: the robot revolution. Full article
Michigan Paves Road Toward Autonomous Vehicle Licensing
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/connected-cars-645x403.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="59" />During his recent State of the State address, Michigan Governor Rick Snyder announced his support for legislation to ensure that Michigan remains at the forefront of autonomous vehicle research. This new legislation would establish guidelines and open the market for small and medium sized companies to begin creating ... Full article
3D Printing Goes Live with Stem Cells
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/cellprinter.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="123" />Despite a recent media outcry that 3D printers could allow users to print unlicensed firearms, a breakthrough in heathcare has demonstrated that additive manufacturing's potential to save lives can overshadow initial scrutiny. Full article
What is Servitization and Why Should You Care?
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/rolls_royce_engine.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="75" />There are some words that should have never seen the light of day. “Servitization” is one of them. Despite the fact that it does not fall trippingly from the tongue – actually it’s downright ugly – the term keeps showing up like a stray cat looking for a ... Full article
Another Boost for Illinois Manufacturing
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/chicago.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="63" />For the second time this month, the University of Illinois is lending a hand to its local economy, according to an announcement to be made in Gov. Pat Quinn's State of the State address today, announcing the creation of an Illinois Manufacturing Lab. Full article
The Printed House is Only the Beginning
<div style="text-align: left;"><img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/Printed_House.jpg" alt="" width="88" height="53" />Last week we ran one of those “oh, come on now!” stories – the idea that a whole house may one day spring from the feedstock of a 3D printer. Strange but true. You can’t help but follow up on a story about a printed house, ... Full article
Building an Industrial Internet
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/gebatteryplant.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="56" />The Big Brother of manufacturing is around the corner - you can see for yourself at General Electric's $170 million plant that opened less than a year ago in Schenectady, New York. Soon, this factory aims to keep its eyes on each individual product made, as well as ... Full article
The Cloud Settles Over Manufacturing
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/cloudmanufacturing.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="71" />Expensive investments in industrial equipment aside, the cost of IT alone has been a barrier to entry for small organizations looking to enter the manufacturing sector. But now, with the proliferation of widely available cloud-based applications and servers on demand, many industries are exploring new possibilities in how ... Full article
University of Illinois Spearheading Drive to Create Research Center Modeled on Bell Labs
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/chicago.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="63" />Proposed UI Labs will bring together academia, industry and government to explore innovations that will transform business and society. National Center for Supercomputing Applications to play significant role. Full article
Changing Tides in IT Outsourcing
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/economy.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="65" />While outsourcing in the manufacturing sector sends sparks flying among politicians, IT outsourcing for services such as cloud is booming without so much as a peep from Capitol Hill. One point key to understanding this distinction is that while you outsource some work overseas (“offshoring”) a significant portion ... Full article
Are Clouds the Fastest Path to Green Computing?
Public and private clouds have been promoted as paradigms of efficiency across a number of dimensions, not the least of which is energy efficiency and the associated carbon footprint. But is it true? That's what a recent study by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and WSP Environment & Energy LLC (WSP) set to find ... Full article
Cloud Computing, HPC and Manufacturing: A Conversation with Bill Feiereisen
<div><img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/Bill_mug.jpg" alt="" width="56" height="73" />"It’s not just that people are beginning to do more work with commercial cloud providers like Amazon or Google; they are physically changing the way they access applications and responding to new ways that applications are being presented.”</div> Full article