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At its announcement, Intel boasted that one of the 1200's 20 design wins even swapped out an ARM design for the new chip. The race for fledgling datacenter microserver market is on. Full article
<img src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/coolingjet.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="47" />Just when you think technology has hit a wall in its ability to scale downward in size, another breakthrough surfaces, and our cell phones and tablets shrink yet again. But this time, it's not because of Moore's Law. Instead, this innovation comes in the form of ultra-thin cooling jets, recently ... Full article
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/engineering_namrc_vr-reactor-mid.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="63" />At the University of Sheffield, a leading edge research center is helping Rolls-Royce plan a nuclear components factory. The center uses different kinds of simulation to create an evolving virtual model that provides not only 3D, but also the fourth dimension of time. Full article
<img src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/DMR_3DPrintedGun.jpeg" alt="" width="95" height="65" />Well, that didn’t take long. A few days after a 3D printed gun fired a few rounds, Congressman Steve Israel (D-Huntington) has announced legislation to renew a ban on plastic guns that is set to expire in 2013. Recent reports have pointed to the new possibility of building guns at ... Full article
Not everything needs to be complicated. If you're not yet ready to try radical new changes in your datacenter, here are some inexpensive ways to enhance sustainability, meet environmental regulations and save money... Full article
<img src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/eyecolor.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="63" />Ever wish you could change your eye color on demand? Researchers at the Centre of Microsystems Technology (CMST), IMEC's associated lab at Ghent University in Belgium, have unveiled a working prototype of a curved LCD display thin enough to embed within a contact lens. Full article
From the New York Times article "Power, Pollution and the Internet" to Greenpeace's criticisms of the heavy use of carbon-emitting energy sources by Amazon and other cloud computing datacenters, the ICT industry is getting a lot of criticism for dirty clouds these days. But a new report from the Global eSustainability Initiative (GeSI) says that ... Full article
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/Clouds.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="76" />After a fast-paced three months, Round 1 of the CAE Experiment concluded last month, with more than 160 digital manufacturing organizations and individuals from 25 countries, working together in 25 international teams. In this summary, Wolfgang Gentzsch and Burak Yenier present the experiment’s main findings and challenges. And, ... Full article
Author Brian Proffitt criticizes "greenwashing" in IT industry. Does lower energy consumption constitute green computing? What about the concepts of "sustainable" and zero carbon? Full article
<img src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/AppliancePark.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="67" />When General Electric's Appliance Park was first conceived, more than likely its designers hoped it would be the embodiment of American ingenuity and prosperity. Unfortunately, they were wrong. For the past decade, the park, a once bustling mini-city with mile-long parking lots and its own traffic light system, has been ... Full article
Apple is doubling down on its fuel cell capacity at its datacenter in North Carolina, once again gaining bragging rights to the biggest fuel-cell powered datacenter by surpassing eBay. The fuel cells will provide up to 10 MW of power. Then there's the biogas... Full article
<img src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/iris_printer.png" alt="" width="95" height="123" />Although the technology has taken off in recent years, the fact remains that 3D printing is still largely unavailable to the public. But due to a new partnership between office supply giant, Staples and 3D printer manufacturer, Mcor, that may begin to change. Full article
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/deniscinlab.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="60" />In PROFILE we highlight initiatives by government, non-profit organizations, academia and industry that are designed to drive advanced manufacturing. This story features RIT’s collaborative efforts with several high tech firms, along with the acquisition of state-of-the-art equipment and a NSF grant that will put the university’s Brinkman Lab ... Full article
The Green Grid already offers metrics to help make efficient computing easier, such as PUE, WUE, and CUE. It also offers a summary of five steps data center operators and other IT professionals can use to become more energy efficient, to lower costs, and to move toward sustainability. Full article
<img src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/6a017c3334c51a970b017c3414c665970b-800wi.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="65" />From electric, encased motorcycles to self-driving vehicles, there are plenty of reasons for automotive enthusiasts to get excited about the future. But one recent concept developed at the Instituto Tecnológico de Monterrey in Mexico City delivers on many of these fronts, unveiling a design that combines hybrid propulsion with automated ... Full article
<p><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva;"><span style="color: #333333;">A U.S. tax on carbon emissions could cut the federal deficit in half in a decade and show the world that the U.S. is serious about combating global warming. M.I.T. Researchers, liberal and conservative economists, right-wing and left-wing politicians, even oil companies support the idea. One prominent U.S. politician, however, ... Full article
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/Logo_EuroMold_300dpi-copy.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="95" />Additive manufacturing (AM) was a major presence at the EuroMold 2012 fair held last week in Frankfurt. EOS, a German AM firm focused on laser-sintering, was one of the exhibitors determined to help the technology become a disruptive force in the manufacturing industry. Full article
<img src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/game_13.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="63" />Because of its flexibility, 3D printers are able to create 100 unique products just as easily and quickly as it would take to print 100 identical ones, which means that customized products, from exoskeletons to Invisalign braces are becoming more widely available. Now, that feature is expanding into the gaming ... Full article
<p><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva;">At the Server Design Summit, HP Labs researcher gives some status reports on several projects. 100-fold increase in performance per watt? Announcements imminent for Project Moonshot and ARM-based servers? …</span></p> Full article
<img src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/IMG_7929-1.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="71" />Amidst the flurry of budget negotiations, Silicon Valley is keeping an eye on lawmakers and the billions of dollars in funding that may be cut. After outsourcing much of its manufacturing work to Asia, and beginning to do the same with design work, it is possible that the nucleus of ... Full article