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- Scientists readying accurate scanner for nuclear bomb
- Scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Library say they are close to designing a scanner good enough to detect, with 100% reliability, a nuclear weapon concealed in a cargo container, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. This would be a huge breakthrough in homeland security, as ports are currently vulnerable to...
- Tags: scanner, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
- Blog posts 2006-05-08
- A 'salty' source of coherent light
- Coherent light is produced by a beam of photons that all have the same frequency and are all at the same phase. And today lasers are the only form of technology that we know able to create such light. But by sending shock waves inside a humble crystalline material --...
- Tags: coherent light, radiation
- Blog posts 2006-01-15
- Photos: Supercomputers ready for work
- At the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the Blue Gene/L and the ASC Purple prepare to show their colors.
- Tags: Blue Gene/L, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, supercomputer
- Image galleries 2005-10-27
- Photos: Supercomputers ready for work
- At the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the Blue Gene/L and the ASC Purple prepare to show their colors.
- Tags: Blue Gene/L, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, supercomputer
- Image galleries 2005-10-27
- Photos: Supercomputers ready for work
- At the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the Blue Gene/L and the ASC Purple prepare to show their colors.
- Tags: Blue Gene/L, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, supercomputer
- Image galleries 2005-10-27
- Apple gives iBooks a step up
- Apple gives iBooks a step uppoor price/performance ratio[Apple's higher-end eMac, which comes with a 1GHz G4, 256MB of RAM, a 4X SuperDrive combination DVD- and CD-burner, an 80GB hard drive and the Radeon 7500 chip, now sells for $1,099.]MACs have a long way to go to achieve the price/performance ratio...
- Tags: Notebooks, Processors, DVD, Combo Drive, Apple Inc., IBOOKS, Apple iBook, processor, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
- Discussion threads 2003-10-22
- Achieving Order Through CHAOS: The LLNL HPC Linux Cluster Experience
- Livermore Computing Linux clusters run a common software environment that is developed and maintained in-house while drawing components and additional support from the open source community and industrial partnerships. The environment is based on Red Hat Linux and adds kernel modifications, cluster system management, monitoring and failure detection, resource management,...
- Tags: Strategy, Environment, High-performance Computing, High-performance, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Open Source
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- SLURM: Simple Linux Utility for Resource Management
- Simple Linux Utility for Resource Management SLURM is an open source, fault-tolerant and highly scalable cluster management and job scheduling system for Linux clusters of thousands of nodes. Components include machine status, partition management, job management, scheduling, and stream copy modules. This paper presents an overview of the SLURM architecture...
- Tags: Job, Management, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Linux, Recruitment & Selection, Open Source, UNIX, Operating Systems, Software, Human Resources, Workforce Management
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- America's airways ready for NextGen
- It's time – long past time – to upgrade the U.S. air traffic control system. The current system, designed during World War II, contributes mightily to flight delays, customer dissatisfaction and a massive energy wastefulness. But a GPS satellite-based system, on the drawing board for more than a decade, has...
- Tags: FAA, Air Traffic Control, Greenhouse Gas, Aerospace & Defense, Manufacturing, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Virtualization 2.0 panel recording from NGDC is available
- Back in August, I had the opportunity to moderate a panel at the Next Generation Data Center Conference, entitled "Virtualization 2.0".The panel included Albert Lee, Chief Strategy Officer and Board Director of xkoto, Greg O'Connor, CEO of Trigence, Jonah Paransky, Marketing VP of StackSafe and Lawrence Stein, Engineering VP of...
- Tags: Panel, StackSafe, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Corporate Governance, Hardware, Storage, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Scientists make ultrathin superconducting films
- U.S. researchers have developed ultrathin films that when sandwiched together form a superconductor, an advance that could lead to a new class of fast, power-saving electronics. CHICAGO--U.S. researchers have developed ultrathin films that when sandwiched together form a superconductor, an advance that could lead to a new class of...
- Tags: Degree, Electronics, Reuters, superconductor, film
- News items 2008-10-09
- Another bit of positive green investment news. Smart grid is again the focus.
- More positive news on the clean-tech investment front announced before the market meltdown but significant nonetheless: Another smart-grid player, GridPoint, is using at least some of its $120 million in recently raised equity financing to buy V2Green, which sells technology for integrating infrastructure for supporting plug-in electric hybrids with the...
- Tags: Alternative Energy, Grid, Clean Technology, Hybrid, GridPoint, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- Canadian Conservatives vow to implement new copyright law
- Candians who vote to re-elect the Conservative government next week will also be voting for an archly pro-copyright agenda. According to the party's official platform released yesterday: A re-elected Conservative government led by Stephen Harper will reintroduce federal copyright legislation that strikes the appropriate balance among the rights of...
- Tags: Legislation, Copyright Law, Creator, Government, Intellectual Property, Vertical Industries, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Piracy, Strategy, Research & Development, Business Operations, Enterprise Software, Software, Security, Corporate Law, Management, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- MedMemory's Patient Health Record (exe)
- This is a digital personal patient health record. It helps organize and store Patient Health Records using specially designed software which can be run from a USB drive. Show love buy one for grandma, or a loved one. Understand...the ongoings of your doctors and conditions. Organize...access everything in two clicks....
- Tags: Patient, Imaging, MedMemory, Document Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting
- Software downloads 2008-10-08
- Report: Data-mining for terrorists doesn't work
- After years of the federal government grabbing all the data it could find, building huge collections through which to data-mine for connections that would yield leads to terrorism suspects, a 352-page study released on Tuesday by a committee of the National Research Council warned that such goals "will be...
- Tags: Terrorist, Terrorism, Homeland Security, Data Mining, Federal Government, Government, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- eLab (exe)
- eLab is a Laboratory Information Management System LIMS that improves sample throughput and reduces IT costs in a single compliant solution. You can implement eLab as a simple sample storage solution or implement its full functionality to empower users to take control of the management of tasks, workflows, and protocols....
- Tags: eBioSys, eLab, Storage, Hardware
- Software downloads 2008-10-07
- Large Hadron Collider computing grid launched
- The Worldwide Large Hadron Collider Computing Grid, which can draw on the computing power of more than 100,000 processors, was officially launched on Friday. One of the world's largest computing grids, capable of streaming the equivalent of three million DVDs a year, was officially launched on Friday....
- Tags: CERN, Scientist, Grid, Large Hadron Collider, particle accelerator, physics, Nick Heath, silicon.com
- News items 2008-10-06
- The cloud finally comes to education
- Cloud computing is one of those great buzzwords in IT that, so far, has meant very little to the average Ed Tech customer. We all have a pretty good idea what it means: lots of computers somewhere (we don't actually care where) doing lots of processing to deliver services...
- Tags: Education, PC, Thin Client, Computer, Cloud, SIMtone Corp., Desktops, Productivity, Thin Clients, Cloud Computing, Hardware, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- Wind: A sound investment in unsound times?
- The first intra-state public offering associated with the development of community-backed wind farms in Dodge, Olmsted and Mower counties in Minnesota has been completed in just four months. The project managers, National Wind and High Country Energy, reported this week that the offering pulled in 60 Minnesota...
- Tags: Minnesota, Investor, Financial Accounting, Investment, Finance, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-10-04
- Valleywag, Consumerist sites announce layoffs
- A source close to Gawker Media informed me a moment ago that popular sites Consumerist, Valleywag and NSFW Fleshbot will may be shuttered will lose most of their editorial talent. "Nineteen jobs will be cut," my source says, with a formal announcement from Gawker Media coming later...
- Tags: Layoff, Gawker Media, Site, Consumerist, Workforce Management, Team Management, Human Resources, Management, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-10-03
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