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Cornell Uses High-Performance Computing to Speed Research, Extend Software Access

As one of the world's leading research institutions, Cornell University has been engaged in high-performance computing since that term referred to mainframe computing. More than 10 years ago, Cornell helped to pioneer the use of PC clusters. To give researchers - both at Cornell and at other institutions around the...

Tags: Software, Researcher, Microsoft Access, High-performance Computing, High-performance, Cornell University, Cloud Computing, Leadership, Mainframes, Management, Servers, Hardware

Case studies 2009-06-25

HP files appeal in Cornell patent dispute case

Hewlett Packard said today that it has filed an appeal in a patent dispute case with Cornell University and the Cornell Research Foundation. Statement Last month, the U.S. District Court reduced the amount that an earlier jury imposed from $184 million to $53 million in favor of...

Tags: Patent, Hewlett-Packard Co., Cornell University, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-04-10

Taking images of individual atoms in color

Researchers at Cornell University are using a new kind of scanning transmission electron microscope STEM to take pictures of individual atoms in color for the first time. It seems odd, but 'the current generation of electron microscopes can be thought of as expensive black and white cameras where different atoms...

Tags: Microscope, Atom, Researcher, Electron, Cornell University, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-02-22

Semi-Oblivious Routing: Lower Bounds

This paper initiates the study of semi-oblivious routing; a relaxation of oblivious routing which is first introduced by Racke and led to many subsequent improvements and applications. In semi-oblivious routing like oblivious routing, the algorithm should select only a polynomial number of paths between the source and the sink of...

Tags: Cornell University, Sink, Engineering, Semiconductors, Hardware

White papers 2008-01-01

New ways to reduce computer-related injuries

According to some studies, computing-related injuries, such as carpal tunnel syndromes or back injuries, affect about one-third of computer users. A Cornell University researcher decided to find some ways to help us. So he studied new products able to prevent repetitive motion injuries, including a chair that undulates, a mouse...

Tags: Mouse, Chair, Cornell University, Computer, Mice, Productivity, Hardware, Peripherals, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2007-12-22

Engineering a new curriculum

Engineering a new curriculumSome smaller schools are way ahead hereI teach engineering at two schools in CT. One University of New Haven has a core required course for non-technology students to give them an appreciation and understanding as well as the necessary vocabulary of the role that engineering and...

Tags: Sastry, Cornell University, Cornell, curriculum, new curriculum, social science, democracy, Siemens AG

Discussion threads 2007-09-10

Data-Mining Discovery of Pattern and Process in Ecological Systems

Most ecologists use statistical methods as their main analytical tools when analyzing data to identify relationships between a response and a set of predictors; thus, they treat all analyses as hypothesis tests or exercises in parameter estimation. However, little or no prior knowledge about a system can lead to creation...

Tags: Cornell University, Data Mining, Business Intelligence, Marketing Research, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Marketing

White papers 2007-07-10

Nanotechnology on the catwalk

This event didnt take place in Paris or Milano, but at Cornell University during their Cornell Design League fashion show on April 21. Its now official: "nanotechnology has entered the fashion world." Fashion designers and fiber scientists have unified their efforts at Cornell to show a two-toned gold dress and...

Tags: Nanotechnology, Leisure, Engineering &, Innovation

Blog posts 2007-05-03

Lighting the nanoworld with nanolamps

An interdisciplinary team of researchers at Cornell University CU has built nanolamps. These extremely small light bulbs are made of light-emitting nanofibers about the size of a virus or the tiniest of bacteria. Using a technique called electrospinning, the researchers spun the fibers from a metallic element, the ruthenium, and...

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

Blog posts 2007-04-14

Optimizing Power Consumption in Large Scale Storage Systems

Data centers are the backend for a large number of services that are taken for granted today. A significant fraction of the total cost of ownership of these large-scale storage systems is the cost of keeping hundreds of thousands of disks spinning. This paper presents a simple idea that allows...

Tags: Power Consumption, Cornell University, Storage System, Data Centers, Storage, Storage Management, Hardware, Data Management

White papers 2007-04-10

The Price of Stability for Network Design With Fair Cost Allocation

Network design is a fundamental problem for which it is important to understand the effects of strategic behavior. Given a collection of self-interested agents who want to form a network connecting certain endpoints, the set of stable solutions - the Nash equilibria - may look quite different from the centrally...

Tags: Stability, Network, Allocation, Cornell University, Network Design, Networking, Network Administration

White papers 2007-01-01

Cornell researchers develop projector in your pocket

Coming soon to a cellphone near you ... the latest Hollywood blockbuster on HDTV. MIT Technology Review reports that researchers at Cornell University have developed a laser technology that could lead to the ability to project high-definition television images from devices the size of cell phones. The new technology...

Tags: Cornell University, mirror, MEMS

Blog posts 2006-09-06

Nicer hair for computer-generated blondes

Reproducing hair in computer graphics has always been a challenge, but it has certainly been more difficult for blondes. Now researchers at Cornell University have developed a better method for rendering blond hair. Their new algorithm, which starts by tracing rays from the light source into the hair, is much...

Tags: hair

Blog posts 2006-07-24

Scaling IP Routing With the Core Router-Integrated Overlay

IP routing scalability is based on hierarchical routing, which requires that the IP address hierarchy be aligned with the physical topology. Both site multi-homing and switching ISPs without renumbering break this alignment, resulting in large routing tables. This paper presents CRIO: a new approach to IP scalability for both global...

Tags: Router, Topology, Scalability, IP, Cornell University, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Network Technology, Routers & Switches, Networking, Internet

White papers 2006-07-18

A signature of the big bang

Today, we'll look at the past, a very old one -- 13.7 billion years to be precise. According to a Cornell University news release, some new satellite data has revealed the beginnings of the universe. This data, based on measurements of the cosmic microwave background radiation CMB, confirms the theory...

Tags: big bang, Cornell University, bang

Blog posts 2006-03-31

Termite: A Swarm Intelligent Routing Algorithm for Mobile Wireless Ad-Hoc Networks

A biologically inspired algorithm named Termite is presented. Termite directly addresses the problem of routing in the presence of a dynamic network topology. In the Termite algorithm, network status information is embedded in the network through the passage of packets. Probabilistic routing decisions are based on this information such that...

Tags: Algorithm, Mobile, Network, Cornell University, Wireless, Termite, Routing Decision, Engineering, Networking

White papers 2006-01-15

The Indian Call Centre Industry: National Benchmarking Report Strategy, HR Practices, & Performance

The dramatic growth of the call center industry is a world-wide phenomenon, fueled by advances in information technologies and the precipitous decline in the costs of voice and data transmission over the last two decades. As part of this global industry, call centres in India have experienced spectacular growth in...

Tags: Human Resources, Performance, Benchmarking, Industry, Cornell University, Strategy, Management

White papers 2005-07-01

Interference-Aware IEEE 802.16 WiMax Mesh Networks

The IEEE 802.16 WiMax standard provides a mechanism for creating multi-hop mesh, which can be deployed as a high speed wide-area wireless network. To realize the full potential of such high-speed IEEE 802.16 mesh networks, two efficient wireless radio resource allocation extensions were developed. The objective of this paper is...

Tags: Aware, Network, IEEE 802.16, Cornell University, WiMAX, Mesh Networking, Wireless, Wi-Fi, Networking

White papers 2005-05-29

Images: How to clone a robot

Scientists at Cornell University have created small robots that can build copies of themselves.

Tags: Robots, robot, Cornell University, scientist

Image galleries 2005-05-12

Building Net-Centric Military Applications Over Service Oriented Architectures

The authors compare the overall structure of military GIG and NCES architectures with that of the object oriented architectures (CORBA, J2EE and .NET) and of the emerging Web Services architecture. While the match is good in many ways, particularly with respect to Web Services, the authors also identify a series...

Tags: Web, Web Service, SOA, Cornell University, Object-oriented, Ooa/Ood/Oop, Web Services, Cloud Computing, Corba, Channel Management, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Software, Marketing

White papers 2005-05-02