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Shooting movies of molecules

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's DOE Argonne National Laboratory have developed techniques for creating movies of biological and chemical molecules. It has been done before for crystalline structures of salt or metals, but organic molecules are more complex, and more difficult to catch. Until now, researchers had to...

Tags: Argonne National Laboratory, Molecule, Biotechnology, Productivity, Research & Development, Business Operations, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-04-17

Lensless camera for nanoscale imaging

Australian and U.S. scientists have developed a lensless camera which uses X-rays to view nanoscale materials and biological specimens. As says one researcher, 'there is no lens involved at all; instead, a computer uses sophisticated algorithms to reconstruct the image.' Future microscopes equipped with these lensless cameras could be used...

Tags: Imaging, Scientist, Image, Camera, Argonne National Laboratory, Advanced Photon Source, X-ray, X-ray Energy, Document Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-02-25

Developing the Web100 Based Network Diagnostic Tool (NDT)

Finding and fixing a network performance or configuration problem is a difficult and complex task. It requires time, energy, and expertise to track down problems and it is difficult for users to know whom to contact when the source and destination computers are located in different administrative domains. This paper...

Tags: Network, Argonne National Laboratory, Productivity, Networking, Network Administration

White papers 2008-01-01

Magnetic 'snakes' for storage devices?

According to a weekly digest from the American Physical Society APS, physicists at Argonne National Laboratory ANL have found that under certain conditions, magnetic particles could form magnetic 'snakes' able to control fluids. According to the researchers, this 'magnetic self-assembly phenomena may be used to make the next generation of...

Tags: Storage Device, Argonne National Laboratory, Storage, Transportation, Storage Management, Hardware, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2007-10-07

Nanotechnology-based flexible hydrogen sensors

Researchers from U.S. Argonne National Laboratory have developed flexible sensors for hydrogen vehicles. These sensors will be cheaper than previously designed hydrogen sensors because they will use only palladium nanoparticles instead of pure palladium. But they will be as efficient and could be used in many applications, like in vehicles,...

Tags: Space &, Aerospace, Nanotechnology, Engineering &, Innovation, Energy &, Environment

Blog posts 2007-08-01

Additional Resources

Academic Competition Leads the Way to a New Electric Car

The University of Ontario Institute of Technology UOIT is one of 17 North American Universities participating in EcoCAR: The NeXt Challenge, a three-year engineering competition established by the United States Department of Energy and General Motors, and managed by Argonne National Laboratory. The challenge was to integrate an electric motor...

Tags: Car, Electric Car, Siemens AG, Performance Management, Storage, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Hardware

Case studies 2009-07-01

IBM wins supercomputing bakeoff; Playstation chips rule; Intel dominates HPC

Supercomputers are like muscle cars for IT: Few of us have one, but boy they are fun to look at. IBM on Tuesday touted that its supercomputer built for the National Nuclear Security Administration's Los Alamos National Lab is the most powerful system in the world. It...

Tags: Supercomputer, Blade, Sony Playstation, Intel Corp., IBM Corp., Chip, Supercomputing, NNSA Supercomputer, Roadrunner, Roadrunner System, Intel Quad-core Blade System, Blade Servers, Utility Computing, Processors, Servers, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-06-18

From Shrek to jet engines, supercomputers prove their mettle

Each year the US Department of Energy entertains proposals for INCITE, a program aimed at advancing the state of the art in US industry. The winners get free computer time on DOE supercomputers. Two of the winners this year, Dreamworks Animation and Pratt & Whitney, gave presentations at SC07 about...

Tags: Supercomputer, DreamWorks SKG, Engine, Multi-core, Computer, Productivity, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2007-11-19

GMOs down to the chromosome level

If don't like the concept of 'Frankenfoods,' I have bad news for you. U.S. researchers have developed an artificial chromosome for corn plants. The Chicago Tribune reports that researchers can now make chromosomes to order. These artificial chromosomes are accepted as natural by the plants and passed through generations. As...

Tags: Gene, University Of Chicago, Chromosome, Cell, Preuss, C/C++, Biotechnology, Programming Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2007-10-20

A very robust 50-atom-thick nanosheet

A team of U.S. scientists has discovered that by tightly packing molecules, they could obtain nanothin sheets of materials showing surprising strength. As one enthusiast researcher says, "It's an amazing little marvel." The team adds that "even when suspended over a tiny hole and poked with an ultrafine tip, the...

Tags: Science &, Nature, Nanotechnology, Engineering &, Innovation

Blog posts 2007-07-30

Clocking the movements of atoms

With their special microscopes, scientists and engineers involved in nanotechnologies have been able to 'see' atoms for a while. But they couldn't clock these atoms' response to events which typically occur in nanoseconds. Now, U.S. physicists have found a way to clock the movements of atoms at the nanometer scale....

Tags: atom, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Blog posts 2006-05-20

Federal push for interoperable wireless standards?

The federal government may be ready to push standards for interoperable wireless communication, an official at the National Institute of Standards and Technology suggested at a recent conference, TechNewsWorld reports. One of the key things that local, state and federal homeland security officials need to...

Tags: homeland security, standards

Blog posts 2006-03-10

Open source in Microsoft?

Microsoft is for the first time including open source technology is a product. The software giant worked with the Argonne National Laboratory, a Dept. of Energy lab operated by the University of Chicago, on its MPICH2 reference implementation, which most ISVs have tested their code against. Microsoft has optimized it...

Tags: open source, Microsoft Corp.

Blog posts 2005-09-16

The Holy Grid cometh

Ian Foster is one of rock stars if there is such a thing of grid computing. For the last decade, Foster-- Associate Director of the Mathematics and Computer Science Division of Argonne National Laboratory and the Arthur Holly Compton Professor of Computer Science at the University of Chicago--and his cohorts...

Tags: Foster, Globus Toolkit, grid computing

Blog posts 2005-01-23

Liberty Alliance debuts new standard

Liberty Alliance debuts new standardAs many will surely point out.It's not a "standard", it's just another concept of how it should be.Is this what Ballmer said "has zero chance of mattering" in October 2001 ??Is this the same Liberty Alliance which Ballmer said "has zero chance of mattering" in October...

Tags: SECURITY, Microsoft .NET, Liberty Alliance, Steve Ballmer

Discussion threads 2003-11-12