Covering Scientific & Technical AI | Thursday, July 9, 2026
Design for Simulation then Manufacture
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/Race_car_CFD_cropped.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="69" />Performing a Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulation on a detailed CAD model is no fun and, more importantly, it is often near useless. Full article
Strayed in America
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/DMR_GoogleNexusQ.jpg" alt="" width="88" height="48" />Google raised some happy eyebrows earlier this summer when the company decided to manufacture its Nexus Q streaming media device in the United States. And then the first product reviews started to come in... Full article
Compelling Reasons for Keeping Your IT Hardware and Software Up to Date
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/stonehedge_SMALL.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="63" />Consultant, author and former CIO Paul Ingevaldson shares insider IT essentials in this excerpt from his new book, <em>The 9 1/2 Secrets of a Great IT Organization-Don't Do IT Yourself</em>. Full article
Making Stuff is Hard! Part II – Review of the Touchfire for iPad
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/Touchfire_small.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="61" />Phil Callihan's Touchfire keyboard finally arrived after numerous delays caused by production problems. Was it worth the wait? Absolutely, says Callihan.<br /> Full article
Do You Know Where Your Workforce is Tonight?
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/1280-oscar-pistorius_small.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="63" />There’s a literate, championship workforce that stands behind high tech manufacturing, but where do they come from? Full article
Growth of Intelligent Machines
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/glassmanthinking.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="95" />The Smart Machines Coalition has the ambitious goal of taking machine automation to heights previously undreamed of. Full article
New “Malifaux” Game Pieces Show Weird and Wonderful Results From Digital Sculpting
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/Wyrd_Hungering_Darkness_cropped.jpg" alt="" width="94" height="95" />Ghost Studio helps Wyrd’s team move from art to part over 30% faster, make production tooling via STL milling. Geomagic Freeform allows exquisite detail, creating compelling miniature characters Full article
Stratasys and Oak Ridge National Lab Team Up to Launch an Additive Manufacturing Revolution
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/Fortus_Shot.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="53" />The recently announced partnership between the two organizations will explore how to make fused deposition modeling mainstream and conduct research into new materials for additive manufacturing, such as carbon reinforced plastics. Full article
Additive Manufacturing Used to Create Durable Parts for Manned Martian Exploration
Now undergoing testing in the Arizona desert, the big rover features 70 parts that were created using Stratasys Fused Deposition Modeling technology. Full article
The Handyman Can
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/DMR_DIY02_small.jpg" alt="" width="94" height="46" />Is there a parallel between the loss of skilled craftsmanship in the U.S. and the decline of the manufacturing sector? NCMS's Matt Sakay brings a new perspective to the issue. Full article
Build an Adirondack Style Chair
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/chair2_small.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="81" />Software from Autodesk used in digital manufacturing helps DIY woodworker design, optimize and create the perfect chair for lounging on a summer day. Full article
Dell’s Latest Hat Trick: Making Big Data Small
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/Harddisk-head.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="68" />The new Dell Big Data Retention storage solution can help small- to medium-sized manufacturers deal with a new fact of modern business life – the deluge of data. Full article
MAKE + Google = Coolest Summer Camp Ever
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/maker-camp-square.jpg" alt="" width="94" height="70" />If you’re not a teenager, first thing: go find a teenager. Ideally one with some time on their hands, who’s interested in tinkering, in science, in making things - because Google and MAKE have teamed up to answer the age-old question of how to spend a summer? Full article
Cartoon: DMR DIGITS
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/DMRdigits_Aug._3_2012_cropped.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="92" />MIT reports that its mechanical engineers are developing an ‘intelligent co-pilot’ for cars; a semiautonomous system that takes the wheel to keep drivers safe. Are we ready for super smart automobiles? Full article
The Topic of Lean Manufacturing: Part 3
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/OpExcel_Pict_cropped.jpg" alt="" width="85" height="95" />In the third of this three part series, Tim Egloff asks the highly pertinent question, are you driving continuous improvement? If this is one of your goals, you may have to make some fundamental changes. Full article
Comeback Country
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/DMR_OlympicUniforms_small.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="53" />Lawmakers are steamed by the revelation that the U.S. team’s Olympic uniforms were made in China. But America’s embrace of digital manufacturing techniques could eclipse old-school, off-shored production, and bring jobs back home.<br />  Full article
A Fast Growing Company, an Expanding IT Department – a Recipe for Stress
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/Psychology-Stress-Brain-Test-7_small.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="95" />Tata Steel Automotive Engineering, a case in point, combines the advantages of an open source workload management solution with commercial support. Full article
Higher Productivity, Lower Costs And Integration In Sheet Metal Solutions
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/Lantek_integrated_image_small.jpg" alt="" width="96" height="135" />Sheet metal and structural steel manufacture is a niche activity and requires specialist tools and software. <br /> Full article
Video: Incredible Illusion of Building Crumbling is Digital Tour de Force
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/building_crumbling_cropped.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="95" />Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City colorfully implodes in a magical illusion made possible by digital modeling. Full article
Automating the Management of PCs and Servers at Resco Products
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/220px-Clabecq_JPG01.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="70" />Resco has been on an acquisition spree over the past several years. Here's how its IT organization is managing the unprecedented growth of servers and PCs triggered by all this corporate activity. Full article