Covering Scientific & Technical AI | Thursday, July 9, 2026
Simulation Comes to the Cloud
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/Combustion_chamber.png" alt="" width="95" height="76" />New offering from Autodesk brings “missing middle” manufacturing companies the opportunity to leverage CFD, FEA and other modeling and simulation tools at an affordable cost and ease of use. Full article
Making Value: Integrating Manufacturing, Design and Innovation to Thrive in the Changing Global Economy
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/nae-2011-logo.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="95" />The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) recently released a report that describes the opportunities that lie ahead at the intersection of innovation, design, and manufacturing while developing a new framework that can be used to turn the national dialog about “manufacturing” in a more productive and positive direction. Full article
Reducing Truck Cab Weight Lowers Costs and Saves Energy
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/EDAG_factory_floor.png" alt="" width="96" height="62" />By linking product and production as early as possible in the product development process, EDAG creates optimized manufacturing solutions for sustainable mobility. Playing a key role in EDAG's success is product lifecycle management (PLM) technology, such as the Tecnomatix portfolio from Siemens PLM Software. Full article
New Tool Gives Structural Strength to 3-D Printed Works
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/3D_Insect.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="68" />Purdue University is working with Advanced Technology Labs of Adobe Inc. to develop a computer program that automatically strengthens objects created using 3-D printing. The innovation is needed because the printed fabrications are often fragile and fall apart or lose their shape. Full article
Racing Aficionados Sharpen Skills and Improve Performance with Advanced Simulator Brought to Life with 3D
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/Racing-Seat-Color-Error-Map_2.jpg" alt="" width="72" height="95" />CXC Simulations, maker of specialized racing simulation equipment, had a manufacturing problem that required a unique solution – designing a mounting system for a specific racing seat in a new product line. 3D scanning proved to be the answer. Full article
The Giving Trees
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/DMR_Forest.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="89" />Nanocrystalline cellulose, made by processing wood pulp, is the latest wonder material – super strong, conducts electricity, is biodegradable, and may spell the end of inorganic plastics. Full article
Ramgen Simulates Shock Waves, Makes Shock Waves Across Energy Spectrum
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/Ramgen_screenshot.png" alt="" width="73" height="95" />Ramgen, a small, Seattle-based energy research and development (R&D) firm, is developing a novel gas compressor system based on shock-wave technology used in supersonic flight applications. Simulation on Jaguar shows potential for cheaper, more efficient carbon capture. Full article
Cartoon: DMR DIGITS
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/DMRdigits_Sept2012.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="98" />DARPA's Cheetah Robot recently ran a 20-meter split at 28.3 mph, faster than the world record for a human set in 2009. But look out, here's comes Cyber Kitty. Full article
Coming to a Road Near You – More Vehicles, Less Drivers, and Vehicles that Talk to Each Other
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/Driverless_car.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="61" />Nevada and California have moved ahead with plans for the licensing of autonomous vehicles while Michigan has manufacturer plates that already allow the testing of this exciting new technology on public roads. Full article
Anatomy of a Startup: Current Motor and the Super Scooter Electric Motorcycle Hit the Road
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/Purple_plaid_scooter.png" alt="" width="95" height="93" />With help from Dell, the new company launches a clean, green electric vehicle that features on-board WIFI and GPS. Full article
My Robot Buddy
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/R_and_Frank_cropped.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="72" />Robot & Frank is a new independent film starring Frank Langella as an aging ex-jewel thief in the near future who receives a robot butler from his son. Contrasting the human character’s deteriorating mental faculties with his increasing dependence on the robot as both servant and friend, Robot ... Full article
Sequestration and the Impact on Defense, Manufacturing, the Economy and Jobs
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/Factory_Symbol.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="82" />Unless Congress acts to reverse its own legislation, sequestration will force automatic federal spending cuts of $1.2 trillion over the next decade, split between defense and non-defense outlays. Full article
Robots Don’t Get Carpal Tunnel
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/Sandia-Hand-blog.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="124" />A team of researchers from Sandia National Labs has designed a low cost, modular, plastic proto-hand made primarily from parts found in cell phones. Full article
Why Are CAE Software Vendors Moving to the HPC Cloud?
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/CLoud_sunset_small.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="70" />Cumbersome licensing models have been holding up cloud adoption -- especially by SMEs -- but that is beginning to change as ISVs begin to update their practices. Full article
Latest Digital Manufacturing Technology Used by Century Old Furniture Company
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/stool.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="95" />Ellis Furniture uses Autodesk sotware to speed time to market with digital design to manufacture workflow. Full article
Nestlé Turns to SAS for a Sweet Solution
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/HomeTout_GoodHousekeeping.ashx.jpg" alt="" width="94" height="56" />Nestlé Direct Store Delivery drives bottom-line improvements with SAS Demand-Driven Forecasting Full article
New Dell Workstations Made for Manufacturing
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/Dell_workstations_small.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="55" />Billed as the "world's most powerful mobile workstations," these new Dell machines provide a world of functionality for manufacturing engineering and design professionals. Full article
Council on Competitiveness Seeks Input to Integrate HPC Technology into Manufacturing
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/Hyundai_Motor_Manufacturing_Alabama_Highsmith_03.jpg" alt="" width="83" height="55" />How can HPC technology be better integrated into the manufacturing value chain to help small- and medium-sized businesses create more jobs and prosper in a global economy? Your input is needed. Full article
Tool and Dice
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/DMR_GenCon-Lolth_cropped.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="102" />Gen Con, the ultimate gaming convention, has come and gone but is not forgotten. Only at Gen Con are you likely to pass a trio of dudes dressed in Imperial Stormtrooper armor from the waist up and Scottish Highlander kilts from the waist down, writes Matt Sakey who ... Full article
HPC as a Service – Key to Mainstream HPC or Wishful Thinking?
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/clouds.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="71" />A recap of a blue-ribbon panel held at this year’s SRII Global Conference. The panel explored the benefits and barriers to the adoption of high performance computing and digital manufacturing with particular emphasis on “missing middle” small- to medium-sized manufacturers. Full article