#Mellanox Shows Record Performance with Connectx-4 100gb/s Interconnect Adapters Today Mellanox announced world-record performance on its Connectx-4 EDR 100gb/s Infiniband adapters.
Achieving Infiniband throughput of 100gb/s, bidirectional throughput of 195gb/s, applications latency level of 610 nanoseconds and message rate of 149.5 million messages per second,
Connectx-4 is the highest performing adapter for the HPC, Web 2. 0, cloud, machine learning, storage and enterprise applications.
Interconnect performance capabilities are critical to data -and compute-intensive applications which require ultra-low latency
and a high rate of message communication in order to deliver faster results, said Gilad Shainer, vice president of marketing at Mellanox Technologies. t 100gb/s, for example,
you can transmit a whole Blu-ray disc of data in two seconds. Connectx-4 opens new capabilities for high-performance, data analytics, machine learning and storage applications.
With the new records of interconnect performance, Connectx-4 adapters provide the means to increase data center return on investment while reducing IT costs.
Connectx-4 has already been selected to power CORAL (Collaboration of Oak ridge, Argonne and Lawrence Livermore National Labs) to help ease the Department of energy new mission-critical applications.
Connectx-4 adapters are sampling today with select customers. With Connectx-4 Mellanox offers a complete end-to-end EDR 100gb/s Infiniband solution,
including the EDR 100gb/s Switch-IB Infiniband switch and Linkx 100gb/s copper and fiber cables
#Seagate & Supermicro Optimize SQL Databases As part of our strategy and commitment to engage with ecosystem vendors to jointly bring optimized
wee excited to be working closely with industry leaders Microsoft and Supermicro to provide enhanced performance
planning and architecture for Seagate electronic solutions. his reference design strives for the best balance of all componentspu, memory,
Microsoft SQL SERVER 2014 Fast Track is a program to develop reference architectures to give medium to large data warehouses a step-by-step guide to building out a data warehouse using well-tuned hardware.
and grow while maintaining a common experience across the data warehouse. Our efforts are targeted at supporting organizations that seek to optimally deploy SQL SERVER 2014 flawlessly in their data center,
said Tiffany Wissner, senior director product marketing, data platform, Microsoft. ee proud to work with companies such as Seagate
and Supermicro who continue to innovate and deliver highly reliable and high performance Microsoft Fast Track Data warehouse designs.
With this solution companies will be able to more efficiently support real time reporting and streaming data,
which are now the norm for business expectations and productivity. Predicting the performance capabilities of a collection of components can be difficult
and a reference architecture helps to eliminate any uncertainty in determining the right mix of components to best suit the specific needs of a data warehouse.
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consistently high performing solution for quick and trusted deployment. Supermicro high-performance 4u 4-way SYS-4048b-TRFT Superserver
optimized for IO-intensive environments, enables rapid, efficient deployment of Microsoft SQL SERVER 2014 Fast Track Data warehouse, said Don Clegg,
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#Concept lamp on bioluminescent bacteria Bright (literally) marine life bioluminescent bacteria look very beautiful and unusual in their natural habitat,
causing the glow tentacles octopus of some species in which they live. The soft blue glow is emitted
when exposed to oxygen. This unique property decided to use. was prepared lamp Ambio, the basis
This article was adapted from a post on the UCS blog The Equation. Mellon contributed this article to Livescience's Expert Voices:
The North Central Sustainable agriculture Research and Education (SARE) program and the Conservation Technology Information center conducted the survey of more than 759 commercial farmers from winter 2012 through spring 2013.
According to the Monsanto website the variety has produced a five-bushel (or about 4 percent) yield advantage in field tests against competitor hybrids.
This article was adapted from Cover crops Dramatically Increase Corn Yields specially In Drought Conditionson the UCS blog The Equation.
#Precision farming Gains Global Foothold (Op-Ed) Lloyd Treinish leads the environmental science team in the Industry Solutions Department at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research center.
A co-developer of IBM's Deep Thunder precision agriculture system he contributed this article to Livescience's Expert Voices:
which uses extensive data from a farmer's field and the surrounding region to help predict weather conditions
While collecting real-time data on weather soil health of crops and air quality is important as is the availability of equipment
At IBM we developed a precision agriculture weather-modeling service using Deep Thunder our Big data analytics technology for local customized high-resolution and rapid weather predictions.
It gathers data from sensors placed throughout fields that measure the temperature and moisture levels in soil and surrounding air.
The system then combines the field data with a diversity of public data from the National oceanic and atmospheric administration the National aeronautics and space administration and the U s. Geological Survey and private data from companies like Earth Networks.
A supercomputer processes the combined data and generates a four-dimensional mathematical model derived from the physics of the atmosphere.
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#'Roboclam'Digging Machine As Fast as Natural Burrowers A robot that can dig quickly and deeply into mud or wet sand could one day help lay underwater cables,
and has said on his blog: As an environmentalist I think our global consumption of meat is far too high.
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"These devices are capable of producing black-and-white patterns that spontaneously match those of the surroundings, without user input or external measurement,
#Facial recognition Tech Can Read Your Emotions If someone is described as smiling but not with their eyes that person is likely faking the smile.
New software by California-based company Emotient can do just that. Using a simple digital camera Emotient's software can analyze a human face
and determine whether that person is feeling joy sadness surprise anger fear disgust contempt or any combination of those seven emotions.
The company's software called Facet can reconnect those dots by accurately reading the emotions registering on a person's face in a single photograph or video frame.
All it needs is a resolution of at least 40 by 40 pixels. Smile Secrets: 5 Things Your Grin Reveals About You Using Facet on a video sequence produces even more interesting results
because the software can track the fluctuations and strengths of emotion over time and even capture microexpressions or little flickers of emotion that pass over people's faces before they can control themselves
The software can also pick up on other subtle facial signs that a human might miss.
In these types of cases the software does need images clearer than 40 pixels but the required resolution is still within a common webcam's capabilities.
Medical applications So what are some uses for software that can identify human emotions based on facial expressions?
Facet's applications are incredibly far-reaching from treating children with autism to play-testing video games.
Recognizing other people's emotions based on their facial expressions is a challenge for many people who have an autism spectrum disorder particularly children.
As a research professor at the University of California San diego's Machine Perception Lab Bartlett has been studying the use of facial recognition software to help people with autism for several years. 5 Controversial Mental health Treatments
Using an earlier version of Facet's software for example Bartlett and her colleagues created a game in
which players are asked to mimic the facial expressions of a cartoonish character on the screen. Using Emotient's software the game assesses the player's success in recreating that expression and returns a score.
This game helps children with autism recognize other people's emotions through their facial expressions as well as teaches them how to make facial expressions that express their own feelings.
#It's easy to speculate on how software that can recognize the emotions behind human facial expressions
Instead Bartlett said Emotient is now working on among other things the software's potential for identifying
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#Hemopurifier FDA Approved to Filter Ebola Out of Blood in Clinical Study Aethlon Medical, a San diego, CA firm,
ADAMM transmits its data wirelessly to a mobile app, where it can remind the wearer to take their medication,
accepted the award on behalf of the project team. his award validates the importance of our site based cyanide production unit
Currently sodium cyanide is transported to and from a site, but the researchers developed a modular, self-contained,
and efficiency Tool and equipment management systems using radio-frequency identification (RFID), provided by Toolhound Inc,
with each individual responsible for the equipment they take. racking metal tools that are covered typically in dirt requires quick and reliable RFID technology,
particularly when there is no tool attendant on site to verify the checkout process, said Dean Perry, president of Toolhound.
All tools and handheld equipment are tagged with both RFID-on-metal tags and standard RFID tags which the inventory system can scan.
The kiosk has an inventory scanner and a touch screen monitor to allow miners to interact with the system;
according to the company worker simply scans their badge and chooses whether they are checking out
and gain access to the entire electrical infrastructure of the mine from a single workstation and a single software package.
A right-click of the mouse brings up a full suite of technical information including manuals information on the devices parameters and its role in the wider system.
And as the IEDS can be connected to the automation system by Ethernet one team can control substations in many different and distant locations o
Designed by Rajesh Menon, an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering and graduate student Ganghun Kim, the microscope technique works when an LED light is illuminated
Returned pictures are reconstructed into 3-D images using algorithms developed by Menon and Kim. nlike miniature microscopes,
and communicate the data that is measured. Currently MEMS readers measure and communicate information electronically, which is subject to interference from electrical oisefrom nearby devices and the environment.
proven techniques already widely used in the likes of smart phones, cars and airplanes. It has been estimated there are already 50 MEMS sensors in a modern car.
with flange mounting options and a colour display controller mounted in a stainless steel enclosure. They can measure all types of Flotation Cell,
Various output capability options are available, like 3 x 4-20ma, Modbus, Profibus, Foundation Fieldbus, Devicenet, and Ethernet.
Through an extensive R&d program, Imergy has developed a way to produce flow batteries with vanadium at a 98%purity level that can be harvested from environmental waste sites.
Imergy flow batteries from low-grade vanadium will also be capable of storing more energy per kilogram than conventional vanadium flow batteries by more than twice, giving cell phone operators, solar power plant developers, microgrid owners
and provides enhanced capabilities through innovative software applications allowing operators to optimize the development of their unconventional reservoirs
and iteratively with the seismic and well data required to model the structure rock and fluid properties.
#Paradigm#s new solution covers entire upstream workflow Paradigm has released the latest version of its integrated solution suite, Paradigm 14, to its worldwide user base.
and imaging to interpretation and modeling, reservoir characterization, reservoir engineering and drilling and data management.
to deliver high-definition images that enable users to see the smaller features that are important in modern reservoirs.
and sensors into a desirable geometry with 5d data reconstruction Enhancing fracture determination from seismic data with improved full azimuth imaging
In this release, Seisearth interpreters have access to a wealth of seismic inversion and data analysis functionality within the application.
These capabilities benefit users by: Defining rock properties using seismic inversion, seismic facies classification and on the fly-fly attribute calculation Identifying potential hydrocarbon locations with AVA inversion and QC of pre-stack seismic data Predicting flow for well planning
using full-azimuth fracture orientation and intensity analysis Wojciech Kobusinski, head of Depth Imaging Group at Geofizyka Torun,
With Paradigm seismic processing and imaging solutions we are able to extract that detail by building velocity models that honor available geologic data
The extremely fast hierarchical 3d reconstruction software speeds up imaging internal microstructures 10-100 times compared to traditional or GPU-accelerated micro-CT algorithms.
A nearby communications trailer provides a dedicated wireless communications link between the equipment and the operator.
The technology operates using a closed Wifi network to communicate between the operator station and the rig.
The closed network means that the Benchremote technology is independent of any other local Wifi network
which can be inserted with a computer tablet that can be set to flash a bright signal when danger approaches.
The tablet mount also allows the rider to wirelessly connect and talk to the bicycle through a dedicated application.
The center is working on something like Big data for smart batteries turning these mysterious devices into information centers that according to doctoral student Mohammad Rezvani can tell their users
#IBM's new computer chip can think like a human brain IBM's latest brain-like computer chip may not be"smarter than a fifth-grader,
to perform a task that is very challenging for conventional computers: identifying people or objects in an image.
and physiology,"said study leader Dharmendra Modha, manager and lead researcher of the cognitive computing groupat IBM Research-Almaden in San jose, California.
Modha gave an analogy to explain how the brain-like chip differs from a classical computer chip.
You can think of a classical computer as a left-brained machine, he told Livescience; it's fast,
Right-brained machine Classical computers from the first general-purpose electronic computer of the 1940s to today's advanced PCS
and smartphones use a model described by Hungarian-American mathematician and inventor John Von neumann in 1945.
and perform data operations at the same time. In contrast, IBM's new chip architecture resembles that of a living brain.
The chip is composed of computing cores that each contain 256 input lines or"axons"(the cablelike part of a nerve cell that transmits electrical signals) and 256 output lines, or"neurons."
"Much like in a real brain, the artificial neurons only send signals, or spikes, when electrical charges reach a certain threshold.
The researchers connected more than 4, 000 of these cores on a single chip, and tested its performance with a complex image-recognition task.
The computer had to detect people, bicyclists, cars and other vehicles in a photo, and identify each object correctly.
The new chip is not only much more efficient than conventional computer chips, it also produces far less heat,
Today's computers laptops, smartphones and even cars suffer from visual and sensory impairment, Modha said.
For example, instead of moving a camera image onto a computer to process it, "the camera sensor becomes the computer,
"he said. Building a brain IBM researchers aren't the only ones building computer chips that mimic the brain.
A group at Stanford university developed a system called"Neurogrid"that can simulate a million neurons and billions of synapses.
the IBM chip can simulate the same number of neurons with only a single chip,
but the new IBM system integrates both computation and memory on the same chip, which minimizes the time needed to transmit data,
Modha said. Kwabena Boahen, an electrical engineer at Stanford who led the development of the Neurogrid system,
called the IBM chip"a very impressive achievement."("Several of Boahen's colleagues on the Neurogrid project have gone on to work at IBM,
he said.)The IBM team was able to fit more transistors onto a single chip,
while making it very energy efficient, Boahen told Live Science. Greater energy efficiency means you could compute things directly on your phone instead of relying on cloud computing,
the way Apple's voice-controlled Siri program operates, he said. That is, Siri outsources the computation to other computers via a network instead of performing it locally on a device.
IBM created the chip as part of DARPA's Synapse program (short for Systems of Neuromorphic Adaptive Plastic Scalable Electronics.
The goal of this initiative is to build a computer that resembles the form and function of the mammalian brain, with intelligence similar to acat or mouse."
"We've made a huge step forward, "Modha said. The team mapped out the wiring diagram of a monkey brain in 2010,
and produced a small-scale neural core in 2011. The current chip contains more 4, 000 of these cores.
Still, the IBM chip is a far cry from a human brain, which contains about 86 trillion neurons and 100 trillion synapses."
"We've come a long way, but there's a long way to go, "Modha said o
developed by computer and electrical engineers at the Massachusetts institute of technology (MIT) and Harvard university, could change the field of robotics.
with a unique algorithm developed by computer scientists at MIT. The microprocessor tells the robot what to do what shape to take and how to move.
a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at MIT who also worked on the self-assembling robot."
"The 6 Strangest Robots Ever Created The researchers said that this new method of building machines could serve as a form of 3d printing for robotics, turning a complex manufacturing process into something that's both more accessible and less expensive for the average user.
but worried about range and places to plug in? Don worry so much. The charging world is moving fast and public stations are becoming widely available in fact many of them are free to lucky owners.
and range extender REX cars) but BMW Healey says the data isn there yet. he i3 has only been on the market for two
Sailors operate the laser using a video game-type controller according to Navy officials. With this controller, they can perform a variety of operations.
The data collected from these trial runs will be used to develop new laser weapons for the Navy under the Office of Naval Research's Solid-state laser-Technology Maturation program.
"It can be used on tall buildings with lots of windows or any kind of mobile device that demands high aesthetic quality like a phone or e reader.
#Scientists achieve quantum teleportation of data with 100 percent accuracy Dutch scientists working with the Kavli Institute of Nanoscience at the Delft University of Technology have made a stunning breakthrough in quantum technology
by successfully teleporting data across a distance of about 10 feet with perfect accuracy reports the New york times. The advance ought to have Albert Einstein who famously dismissed the idea of quantum teleportation as spooky action at a distance rolling in his grave.
and a quantum internet are just around the corner. here is a big race going on between five
IBM accidentally creates the first new polymer in 30 years When you leave a key ingredient out of a recipe,
That's what happened at an IBM laboratory recently when research chemist Jeannette M. Garcia missed a step while mixing and heating a batch of chemicals.
IBM said the materials could even potentially be used in airplanes, where their strength, light weight,
Beyond the initial accident, the new polymers were developed through a combination of chemistry and high-performance computing,
IBM Research's James Hedrick, who co-authored the new paper, said in a news release that"new materials innovation is critical to addressing major global challenges, developing new products and emerging disruptive technologies.
and build new polymer structures with significant guidance from computation that facilitates accelerated materials discovery.
This is unique to IBM and allows us to address the complex needs of advanced materials for applications in transportation, microelectronic or advanced manufacturing."
"In addition to the hard material that IBM says could be used for airplane wings, they also developed an elastic gel that is mostly liquid
IBM says the dissolving qualities of the gel could also allow it to be used as a mechanism to delivery pharmaceuticals to the body h
The DEKA Arm System, developed by the company DEKA Integrated Solutions in Manchester, New hampshire, uses wireless signals from sensors in the user's feet and other inputs to control the arm's multiple joints.
The user can select among six different grips. The arm's development would not have been possible without a host of technological advances
including the miniaturization of motor parts, computer controls and sensors and manufacturing that uses lightweight but strong materials.
"Those applications could include better solar cells,"smart"coatings, new kinds of computers and all kinds of other devices or components.
Mapping the Brain The institute has developed previously maps of the developing and adult mouse brain the developing monkey brain and the adult human brain.
The team compared these gene activity results with data from other species in particular the mouse brain.
Researchers found some genes that were turned on in the developing human brain but not in the mouse's brain or vice versa.
For example the developing human brain contains genes that are more active in the frontal cortex than in the corresponding part of the mouse brain.
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#Honda Smart Home produces more energy than it uses Wouldn it be great if your house produced more energy than it consumed?
Panasonic Eco Ideas House, with solar, a fuel cell, battery backup and a plug-in Toyota prius, has stood long next to a company headquarters in Tokyo,
and his team used computer software to design a modified version of yeast chromosome III which they called syniii
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#Scientists create'living materials'using E coli Imagine a world where nonliving devices and building materials had some of the same advantages as living things,
"This unique property is already being looked at as a potential mechanism for quantum information technologies, such as quantum cryptography and quantum computation.
#'Astroskin'smart shirt monitors astronauts'health in Antarctica Remember that pivotal scene in the movie"Apollo 13"in which crewmembers rip the biomedical sensors off their bodies?
Astroskin, a prototype device to monitor astronaut health, is a garment that fits over a person's upper body
and will share the data with the CSA for possible use on future space missions and other applications.
As GPS watches and blood-pressure monitors become the norm, researchers are now aiming for ideas such as headsets that could assist people with vision problems.
The CSA has indicated not when Astroskin could fly in space, but says it could be used on the International space station during future missions.
10 Scariest Sea Creatures The one-of-a-kind Exosuit on display at the American Museum of Natural history (AMNH) now through March 5 measures 6. 5 feet (2 meters) tall
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#'Yarn muscles'100 times stronger than human muscles Using just coiled fishing line and sewing thread a team of scientists has developed a way to create super-strong artificial muscles.
The fiber muscles could be used to power the muscles in androids or exoskeletons the researchers said.
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#For stem cells in 30 minutes just add acid Embryonic stem cells have huge potential in treating everything from cancer to diabetes because of their ability to morph into almost any other type of cell within the human body.
As explained on her lab's web page All organisms possess instincts to survive exposures to external stresses by adapting to their environment and to some degree regenerating injured tissues or organs.
and injected them into a mouse embryo. They spread through the entire embryo causing it to fluoresce green.
and insects to monitor wind and navigate around obstacles in tight spaces lead researcher Ali Javey of Berkeley Lab's Materials sciences Division said in a news release.
and conductivity allowing them to transmit data on the environmental factors they experience. Javey said the team's e-whiskers could lead to technologies for real-time monitoring of environmental factors.
and excellent performance of our e-whiskers should have a wide range of applications for advanced robotics human-machine user interfaces
thanks to a futuristic submarine that lets users"fly"underwater. The Deepflight Super Falcon, developed by California-based Hawkes Ocean Technologies,
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