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- Technology: where on the scale from cure to curse?
- I'm old enough to remember the many apocalyptic scenarios conjured up by nuclear weapons and the Cold War. From Alas, Babylon to "The Day After", from Godzilla himself, the second half of the Twentieth Century was repeatedly haunted by vivid imaginings of the post-nuclear world, or its ending....
- Blog posts 2008-08-20
- New approach gives Purdue serious computing power
- New approach gives Purdue serious computing powerGlad to be a BoilerI am very proud to be a Boilermaker.
- Discussion threads 2008-05-02
- Searching in 3-D
- Eighteen months ago, I was writing that shape searching could become a reality. Now, the researchers at Purdue University who developed this initial system are providing benchmarking tools to evaluate how well their search system is working. Even if these tools are designed for computer-aided design CAD engineers, you're welcome...
- Blog posts 2005-09-29
- At Purdue, cooling chips with mini lightning storms
- At Purdue, cooling chips with mini lightning stormsIts a serious problemEvery professional software developer or hardware engineer knows that heat on the CPU causes problems in performance.This is a growing problem, but the fact is we have seen people coming up with these "devices" before. I think that this is...
- Discussion threads 2004-03-25
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- Will a flu pandemic really bring down the Internet?
- Is the last bulleted list a joke??That last bulleted list is a joke. It worships a model, and is not the best tool for the job.Keep in mind through all this:-The problem is going to be network congestion. Therefore steps should be taken to [b]REDUCE[/b] network usage."Monitor your VPNs. Make...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-27
- Electric vehicle grants
- The feds are giving money to over four dozens industrial and research operations connected with the development of electric cars in the U.S. The total grants are nearly $2.5 billion. This is not like we have a major national commitment to electric cars. The $2.5 billion is...
- Blog posts 2009-08-13
- Hashing Techniques for Mobile Device Forensics
- Previous research conducted at the National Institute of Standards and Technology has shown that mobile device internal memory hash values are variable when performing back-to-back acquisitions. Hash values are beneficial in providing examiners with the ability to filter known data files, match data objects across platforms and prove that data...
- White papers 2009-06-01
- A 'simpler' invisibility cloak
- Still far from what you've seen on Star Trek, the development of technology to cloak objects--currently too small to see anyway--is heating up. Researchers at Purdue University report that they've created a new type of invisibility cloak that is simpler than previous designs, works for all colors of the visible...
- Blog posts 2009-05-26
- Purdue University Protects 25,000 Systems in Highly Distributed Environment With McAfee Total Protection for Endpoint
- Purdue University, located in West Lafayette, Indiana, is the flagship university of the five campuses within the Purdue University System, and one of the largest university systems in the United States. University needed to protect the PC and Mac desktops and servers from virus, spyware, and other malware attacks is...
- Case studies 2009-04-01
- Purdue University Builds the 104th Most Powerful Cluster in the World Using Dell Servers
- Purdue University needed to select one brand and model of server as a building block for its latest community cluster project. Price per floating point operations per second flops, quality, reliability and simplicity were important considerations. Assisted by a team of 253 volunteers representing several academic and business areas of...
- Case studies 2009-04-01
- Demand Planning Maturity Model: Strategies for Demand-Driven Forecasting and Planning
- Off late unstable economy, many organizations are finding out that they have inadequate processes to handle demand planning, and traditional methods of predicting demand aren't efficient in a fluctuating market. What are the characteristics of a successful demand forecasting system? What steps do organizations need to take in order to...
- White papers 2009-04-01
- Mussel "glue" and inkjet printers may make for faster healing from surgeries
- The adhesive protein mussels create allow them to stick tenaciously to virtually any type of material, including rocks, glass, metals, and wood. Now, researchers at North Carolina State University found a way to use this natural mussel glue along with a variation on the inkjet printer to make medical adhesives...
- Blog posts 2009-03-18
- Another reason to love Linux: SiCortex offers high-performance computing in an astonishingly energy-efficient format
- If you're looking to supplement your trading floor applications, business analytics infrastructure or Internet site capacity, SiCortex has a proposition for you: a 72-processor high-performance Linux platform with CPUs that use just 0.6 watts of electricity each. In other words, this is a high-performance computer that is designed to use...
- Blog posts 2008-12-29
- Cut the crap. Stop the off-gassing of the cows. Sure, but how?
- A French cow in The Camargue. Doing what cows everywhere are known to do. Methane is being emitted daily by cows and horses across this land, pigs too. Manure's another problem. But it could also be a solution. Right now the...
- Blog posts 2008-11-12
- Purdue University Selects Intel Xeon Processors for "Steele" - A New 26.8-Teraflop Community HPC Cluster
- Purdue University wanted to capitalize on the purchasing power of several research groups to build a powerful shared cluster at a lower cost than multiple departmental clusters and select an industry-standard processing architecture that enables researchers to run a wide array of scientific code. Purdue's Rosen Center for Advanced Computing...
- Case studies 2008-11-01
- Towards low-cost LED lighting
- You all know that incandescent bulbs are pretty inefficient, converting only 10% of electricity into light -- and 90% into heat. Light-emitting diodes, or LEDs, could soon replace incandescent and compact fluorescent bulbs in our homes. They are more efficient and environmentally friendly. But LED lights are currently too expensive...
- Blog posts 2008-07-20
- Obama calls for comprehensive cyber-security measures; looks for a national cyber ninja
- Update: It would seem that Richard Stiennon agrees with me on the concept of a group of experts to advise, also on keeping away from spending ridiculous amounts of money. Cyber-terrorism... ah, what a fancy buzz word that is. Defined on Wikipedia as: “The premeditated use...
- Blog posts 2008-07-18
- A refrigerator inside your laptop?
- Even if the semiconductor industry is working on it, computer chips are big energy spenders. And new cooling systems will be needed in the future. Purdue University engineers think they have a solution. They've developed a miniature refrigeration system small enough to fit inside laptops. Unlike conventional cooling systems, which...
- Blog posts 2008-06-21
- The value in name patients
- In all the coverage of Sen. Edward Kennedy's brain tumor, one fact has gone little remarked. The surgery is taking place at Duke. Not in Massachusetts. In North Carolina. The surgeon is Dr. Allan H. Friedman (right, from Duke University Medical Center). He was...
- Blog posts 2008-06-02
- News to know: Sun; Microhoo; Vista; Linux security; Spigit
- Notable headlines: Larry Dignan: Sun plans layoffs following weak quarter; Blames U.S. economy Nate McFeters: Multiple Linux flaws show that Linux also has kernel issues More bad news for McAfee, HackerSafe certification Steve Ballmer's defining hour Mary...
- Blog posts 2008-05-02
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