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Netezza launches new data warehouse appliance family

Netezza on Monday plans to launch its latest data warehousing appliance, dubbed TwinFin. The appliance, the first in a family of them, promises to scale to a petabyte of data at a lower price point. TwinFin will be priced at less than $20,000 per terabyte. The appliance...

Tags: Data Warehouse, Netezza, Monash Research, Business Intelligence, Storage, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-07-31

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Monash University Health Sciences Gets Research Results in a Week Instead of Months Using a Dell-Based High-Performance Computing Cluster

Monash University needed to construct a High-Performance Computing HPC cluster to support its biomedical research efforts. The cluster needed to be easily expandable, and CPU power per dollar spent was a major consideration. The IT group within the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences at Monash University assembled a...

Tags: Monash University, Dell Computer Corp., High-performance Computing, High-performance, Health Care, Monash University Health Science, Healthcare, Cloud Computing, Leadership, Servers, Management, Hardware

Case studies 2009-05-01

Art of pizza tossing inspires micro motor design

Researchers at Monash University in Australia have unlocked the physics of the perfect pizza toss and will use it to design the next generation of standing wave ultrasonic motors SWUMs, devices thinner than a human hair. [caption id="attachment_1510" align="alignleft" width="225" caption="Credit: Aubrie & Joseph via Flickr"][/caption] ...

Tags: Researcher, Motor, Chris Jablonski

Blog posts 2009-04-27

Nanorobot for Brain Aneurysm

The idea of nanorobots floating throughout our arteries to fight diseases and deliver drugs is migrating from science fiction to medical fact, at least in virtual 3D simulations. Nanorobotics pioneer Adriano Cavalcanti and his colleagues report progress with their nanorobot control design NCD software which helps them simulate the behavior...

Tags: Gradient, Vessel, Manufacturing, Nanotechnology, Team Management, Emerging Technologies, Management, Chris Jablonski

Blog posts 2009-03-25

Nanorobots to improve health care

Using nanorobots to deliver drugs and fight diseases is not a new idea check here or there. Of course, nanorobots floating inside our bodies to improve our health are still years away. However, an international team of American and Australian researchers is developing a nanorobot hardware architecture for medical defense...

Tags: Software, 3D, Protein, Biomedical, Health Care, Hardware Architecture, Healthcare, Nanotechnology, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-05-19

H-Store: Complete destruction of the old DBMS order?

Guest Post: Curt Monash reports from the front lines of a database revolution. Mike Stonebraker created much of the database management industry. Now he wants to blow it up. Via a project called H-Store [pdf file], he proposes to manage high-end OLTP databases entirely in...

Tags: Disk, DBMS, Brown University, OLTP, RAM, H-Store, I-Store, H-Store Team, Databases, Storage, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Hardware, Curt Monash

Blog posts 2008-02-20

Nanotechnology-based self-cleaning fabrics

A recent American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac briefly describes how Australian researchers have used nanotechnology to develop 'self-cleaning' wool and silk fabrics (scroll to article #4 in the PressPac). The researchers 'prepared wool fabrics with and without a nanoparticle coating composed of anatase titanium dioxide, a substance that is known...

Tags: Silk, American Chemical Society, Fabric, Fiber, Nanotechnology, Network Technology, Semiconductors, Emerging Technologies, Networking, Hardware, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-02-12

Nanorobots for drug delivery?

The idea of using nanorobots to deliver drugs and fight diseases such as cancers is not new check this story for example. But there are still lots of issues to solve before nanorobots can diagnose our diseases and treat them. Now, an international team of researchers has designed a software...

Tags: 3D, Researcher, Protein, Environment, Cone, Sensor, Nanorobot, Nanotechnology, Semiconductors, Emerging Technologies, Hardware, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2007-12-08

Software to ease divorce pains

If you went through a divorce during your life, you know it can be painful. Who will keep the house or the kids? How the money will be distributed? Even if professional mediators are involved, the process can really be unpleasant. According to LiveScience, two programs developed by Australian researchers...

Tags: Software, Decision Support System, Negotiation, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2007-08-07

A (nano)jacket for riding your bicycle

If you want to try a luminescent jacket to improve your safety when you ride your bicycle at night, you'll have to be next week in Melbourne, Australia. This prototype jacket, embedded with nano polymers, will be on display at the Melbourne Design Festival's Fabric of the Future exhibit, as...

Tags: NanoVic

Blog posts 2006-07-08

ElectricWords Japanese ARM 4.0 (Mobile)

ElectricWords Dictionary Software is the premier solution for Japanese language learners and travelers. ElectricWords is an innovative dictionary software with an easy to learn, browser-based user interface. For easy review and study, retrieved words can be organized in contexts to support studying alongside textbooks or classroom lectures.The dictionary features of...

Tags: ARM, Mobile, Context, ElectricWords Dictionary Software, Web Browsers, Internet

Software downloads 2005-10-19