Covering Scientific & Technical AI | Thursday, July 9, 2026
New GE Battery Brings Major Technological Advances to Cell Tower Backup
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/cell-towers.jpg" alt="" width="90" height="76" />These impressive batteries rely on halides, a chemical reaction between electrically charged sodium and nickel compounds and can be recharged as many as 3,500 times. Full article
HPC Clouds – An Opportunity Not Just for the “Missing Middle”
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/Callaway_CFD.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="61" />The on-demand availability of HPC resources “in the cloud” with a pay-as-you-go payment model is a great opportunity for small and medium manufacturers that want to start using HPC resources for advanced modeling and simulation Full article
Is Transportation Still the Key to an Economic Boom?
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/Gold_Train_small.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="63" />Will a high speed rail line proposed by Amtrack revitalize economic development in the Northeast? It's a grand plan, but it comes with a hefty price tag. Full article
Small Startup Dreams Big with iPhone Accessories
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/snooze_single_copy_2.jpg" alt="" width="94" height="64" />Just like smartphones and computers have turned everyone into an instant filmmaker, CAD software and 3D printers enable small startups to dream big. A group of former employees from Philips decided to band together and create their own manufacturing operation, making accessories for Apple's iPhone. Full article
CAE in the Cloud – New Business Opportunities for Manufacturers and ISVs
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/cloud_is_the_key.jpg" alt="" width="96" height="63" />This article from our sister publication, <em>HPC in the Cloud</em>, investigates how breaking CAE jobs free from the restrictions of the workstation environment and moving them to the cloud could benefit CAE engineers as well as CAE software vendors. Full article
The Winds of Change: Digital Manufacturing Testimonial from a SMM
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/daffodill_wind_turbine.jpg" alt="" width="63" height="93" />Dr. Dawn White, a serial entrepreneur and innovation leader, explains how advanced modeling & simulation tools have helped her alternative energy company remain competitive during these tough economic times. Full article
Today’s Technology is Getting Smarter
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/Helmet_Hero.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="73" />Smart technology is around us every day. From surveillance cameras to clothing, today's smart technology is watching us, helping us, and getting smarter because of us. Full article
Additive Manufacturing – Something from Nothing
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/DMR_Additive01_small.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="66" />Thirty years ago, if you wanted to make something, you’d take a big brick of metal, then cut and melt away until you had the shape you were looking for. It works, but it’s not exactly optimal. Full article
Join the Experiment: CAE at Your Fingertip
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/X-43A_(Hyper_-_X)_Mach_7_computational_fluid_dynamic_(CFD).jpg" alt="" width="94" height="60" />Learn about and participate in the open HPC-as-a-Service Experiment that will bring together digital manufacturing end users, resource providers, software providers, and HPC experts. Full article
Faber Develops World’s Quietest Range Hood Using Advanced Active Noise Control Technology
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/cookerhood.jpg" alt="" width="94" height="54" />"Silence in a chip" technology from Silentium helps put the appliance manufacturer out in front of its competition. Full article
NCMS’s Jon Riley to Keynote Siemens PLM Software Digital Manufacturing Symposium
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/Screen_Shot_2012-07-11_at_2.55.46_PM.png" alt="" width="95" height="107" />Still time to register for the July 26 event to be held in Indianapolis, Indiana. A great way to learn more about the current state-of-the-art and the promise of digital manufacturing.<br /> Full article
Domo Arigato, Mr. Roboto
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/DMR_Asimo_1.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="100" />So recently mere science fiction, today's robots are tools and appliances – but as technology changes, so will perception. Humans and robots may soon have some decisions to make when it comes to the status of their relationship. Full article
Help Wanted
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/DMR_ADVMFG_small.jpg" alt="" width="82" height="40" />We’ve heard it again and again – even as employment struggles to regain a foothold in the United States, manufacturers flail around, often unsuccessfully, in search of the right kind of workers. Indeed, we know that as many as 600,000 manufacturing jobs may be floating around out there ... Full article
Reshoring is Hot!
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/made-in-usa.jpg" alt="" width="94" height="62" />A firm in California typifies the move to reshoring, a trend that is gaining traction, while on the East coast another company launches a service to put U.S. manufacturers in touch with U.S. suppliers. Full article
Globalization and the Changing Face of Manufacturing
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/earth_with_white_background.jpg" alt="earth" width="95" height="95" />When it comes to the state of manufacturing in the US, Mike Newkirk likes to quote hockey great Wayne Gretzky who said, "I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been." Full article
Musical Robot Companion Enhances Listener Experience
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/hgImage.php.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="83" />Shimi, the smartphone-enabled robot from Georgia Tech recommends songs, dances, interacts with listeners, and may just change the way humans and robots collaborate. Read the story; watch the video.<br /> Full article
Innovative Snoring Guard Shows Flexibility of Geomagic’s Freeform 3D Design System
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/cartoon-snoring-saidaonline.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="58" />Over 20 million people in Europe alone suffer from long-term, chronic sleep disorders, including sleep apnea and snoring. Digital manufacturing to the rescue. Full article
Stanford Scientists Spark New Interest in the Century-old Edison Battery
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/Ultrafast_Edison_Battery_copy.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="68" />Stanford scientists have developed an ultrafast Edison battery by growing iron oxide crystals on graphene sheets and nickel hydroxide crystals on multi-walled carbon nanotubes. Full article
Ain’t Nothing Like the Real Thing
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/royalty-free-photos-science-fiction-virtual-reality-network-pixmac-78101795.jpg" alt="" width="94" height="62" />As the world grows more and more digital, it’s going to take a while for people to adapt to the idea of stuff being less and less real – or, rather, less physically real. Virtual things are just as real in a lot of ways, but you can’t ... Full article
The Uber-Experiment for Manufacturers High-Performance Technical Computing as a Service
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/Hyperscale.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="67" />In this Call for Participation, Wolfgang Gentzsch and Burak Yenier discuss the various aspects of the HPTC service model, the people that need to be involved in the process, and the challenges faced when executing the manufacturer’s workloads on remote High-Performance Computing (HPC) resources. Full article