#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
#Seagate & Supermicro Optimize SQL Databases As part of our strategy and commitment to engage with ecosystem vendors to jointly bring optimized
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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.
Microsoft. ee proud to work with companies such as Seagate and Supermicro who continue to innovate
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#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:
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.
A supercomputer processes the combined data and generates a four-dimensional mathematical model derived from the physics of the atmosphere.
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.
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
and a touch screen monitor to allow miners to interact with the system; according to the company worker simply scans their badge
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.
with flange mounting options and a colour display controller mounted in a stainless steel enclosure. They can measure all types of Flotation Cell,
and provides enhanced capabilities through innovative software applications allowing operators to optimize the development of their unconventional reservoirs
The extremely fast hierarchical 3d reconstruction software speeds up imaging internal microstructures 10-100 times compared to traditional or GPU-accelerated micro-CT algorithms.
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.
#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
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."
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,
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,
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."
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.
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.
Sailors operate the laser using a video game-type controller according to Navy officials. With this controller, they can perform a variety of operations.
"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.
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,
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.
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
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.
and his team used computer software to design a modified version of yeast chromosome III which they called syniii
#'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
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.
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
The fiber muscles could be used to power the muscles in androids or exoskeletons the researchers said.
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.
#World's fastest supercomputers could take science to the next level With computing technology continually getting smaller,
you may look at modern day room-sized supercomputers and balk. But if you're impressed with all the things your tablet can do,
imagine the power of a computer so big that it needs its own room. The announcement that the U s. Department of energy is planning to spend $425 million to build two supercomputers that are 5 to 7 times faster than any supercomputer in history is big news
and it could lead the way to major advancements in science research, reports Reuters. Most of that cash,
$325 million of it, will be designated for the construction a supercomputer to be named"Summit,"for Oak ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee,
and another to be named"Sierra"at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California. The remaining $100 million will go toward research into future supercomputing advances to eventually build computers that are even faster.
Summit and Sierra will operate at 150 petaflops and 100 petaflops respectively, which is the unit of measurement for supercomputer performance.
Basically that means that the machines can perform as many as 150 million billion floating-point operations (or FLOP) per second.
By comparison, the world's highest performing computer at present, the Tianhe-2 in China, performs at"just"55 petaflops. The first-ever supercomputer to reach 1 petaflop was built as recently as 2008.
So Summit and Sierra are significant upgrades. Plans are for Sierra to be the exclusive domain of The National Nuclear Security Administration,
"according to a press release by Nvidia, one of the manufacturers of the new computers'components. Summit, however, will be made available to researchers worldwide who can apply for time with the powerful technology.
The faster the computer, the more detailed models that can be created. Natural systems, such as Earth's climate, are extremely difficult to model because of their immense complexity."
and even how long his mouse hovered over an object Amazon could predict what hel buy
There really only one that comes to mind printer ink. It never fails that when one of my sons needs to print out something for a big school project the ink runs out.
and he said he going to start hovering his mouse over a computer that he wants and an Xbox One.
Just hit'print'From working guns to bionic ears 3-D printers are creating a variety of objects
But 3-D printers aren't just laying down plastics resins and nanoparticles they're also printing with dough vegetables and even meats.
Both engineers and gourmet chefs are experimenting with creating foods from 3-D printing. The technique allows them to produce foods in unique shapes
and textures and to streamline repetitive tasks like filling ravioli. 3-D food printers don't look like traditional printers.
Just like a regular printer the machine takes its instructions from a computer. Using software a 3-D representation of the food is created
and divided into printable layers. Designers of commercial 3-D printers believe that in the near future we'll be able to download such recipes and print them in our home kitchens.
Barcelona-based company Natural Machines says it hopes its Foodini machine (pictured right) will promote more home cooking by managing the difficult
Take a look at the variety of food that can be made with 3-D printers. The Foodini made these chickpea nuggets as a healthier alternative to meat options.
TNO has experimented with printing pureed vegetables back into their original shape. Cornell University's Fab@Home can print ramen noodles in a variety of artistic shapes.
in order to create superfast computers that can communicate and transfer data instantaneously, but learning to control the quantum data has proven difficult.
reports PC Mag. It's particularly significant because silicon is the same material used to build conventional computers,
meaning that the technology could potentially be mass-produced using the same sort of equipment currently used for chip manufacturing.
"The capability of building a quantum computer from materials already widely used for building conventional computers might be this study's most significant accomplishment, however.
And, according to Yiannis Aloimonos, University of Maryland professor of computer science and director of the Computer Vision Lab, cooking was the perfect skill to test the robots'progress."
and touchscreens could be made that resist finger grease and other similar causes of smudges. Also airplanes etched in these nanostructures could potentially avoid the dangers of water freezing on the wings.
Though perhaps it's simply enough to be dazzled by displays of water bouncing around like balls. he material is so strongly water-repellent the water actually gets bounced offsaid Chunlei Guo a professor of optics
#This stick could be the end of the personal computer as we know it Fifteen years ago,
I would see people move into apartments and fill their living rooms with a big desktop computer, a big TV and a stereo system with giant CD racks.
and worked with Toronto's Julia West Home to design beautiful furniture that turned your computer into an entertainment center, much like those console Hi-fi systems from the'50s.
Flat-screen monitors were not available yet (that SGI 17-inch monitor in the photo was the first one sold
500) and the ipod and the laptop got rid of the big desktop and the stereo system.
and I became convinced that it was going to become our default computer, writing in Treehugger:
including that the big-screen television was going to follow the piano to the dump. I was wrong again.
Flat-screen LED TVS got so cheap and so big that people are now wallpapering their walls with them;
After five years of using my computer monitor for entertainment, even I broke down and bought 42 inches of fun.
Now Intel has introduced the Compute Stick, a complete computer that runs Windows 8. 1 (or Linux) that you can plug into the HDMI port of your big TV.
It not exactly a gamer rig, with an Atom processor and 2gb of ram and a 32 GB solid state drive,
but it's also only $149 including Windows, which retails on its own for $154. 99 at my local computer store.
The device connects via Bluetooth to your keyboard and mouse. No doubt the souped-up gamer version will follow shortly.
Intel calls it solution with plenty of storage and performance needed for light productivity, social networking, web browsing,
and streaming media, such as Netflix, Hulu, or games. I think it's a lot more than that.
I was building powerful computers into pretty boxes to act as entertainment centers; today I can just plug a computer that costs less than a retail box of software into my TV if
I need a computer at all, which except for work I don't. Now I can spend all day on the sofa in front of the TV
and nobody can complain, because the computer has ceased to be a thing. It now just an accessory.
In 1977, the late Ken Olsen, CEO of minicomputer manufacturer DEC, famously said here is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
He was quoted out of context but he still had to live that down for the rest of his life.
Autocase software tool has got its number It a running theme in our discussion of the smart home:
In the Economist Autodesk head of sustainability Emma Stewart writes about how the smart thing to do is to figure it out before you build.
they use software like Autocad to build the structure in the computer piece by piece.
However as an architect who was an early adopter of Computer aided design (CAD) over 30 years agowhen all it did was draw
condom-reinventing Microsoft cofounder didn actually drink human excrement Sedro-Woolley-produced sewage sludge at its finest.
and operated using a micro-entrepreneurial model where local residents would benefit economically from the facilities. he processor wouldn just keep human waste out of the drinking water;
or hard drives reliant on electrons'intrinsic spin are getting packed into smaller and smaller spaces. The limit was thought to be set:
when researchers at IBM manipulated individual xenon atoms on a nickel plate to spell out the letters'IBM'across a space just a dozen nanometres wide2.
they used two independent computer models to calculate the total mass of fish in the world's oceans.
Nature News A transparent, flexible electrode made from graphene could see a one-atom thick honeycomb of carbon first made just five years ago replace other high-tech materials used in displays.
and Hong says that makes the material ideal for use in applications such as portable displays.
Fast breeder reactors, of the type under construction in Kalpakkam, would breed uranium-233 in thorium blankets surrounding a plutonium core.
but having a panel of in-country experts to deal with grant applications is a new approach.
or China's use of mercury catalysts in the manufacture of plastics. In addition, coal fired power plants, which emit mercury because of its natural presence in coal,
Every day, they spent around half an hour in total on five computer-based tests designed to stretch their working memories.
reporting results by clicking on relevant numbers in a grid on the screen. Using brain imaging techniques, the scientists measured levels and locations of dopamine receptors in brain areas of interest in each participant before and after training.
The council's panel of experts chaired by physicist Pekka Sinervo from the University of Toronto in Ontario,
Kundra also embraced'cloud computing'by moving all 38,000 employees for WASHINGTON DC onto the Google Apps office suite
which stores data and applications online rather than on individual computers. And he recently implemented an internal management tool in
The second team2 was led by Daniel Rugar, manager of nanoscale studies at IBM s Almaden Research center in San jose, California.
A PSA test is currently the most common, noninvasive means to screen for prostate cancer in the U s. PSA testing measures for elevated levels of prostate specific-antigen antigen,
as well as from Kenya, India, Rwanda, Uganda and Zimbabwe, to screen for resistant coffee plants and to analyse varieties of the pathogen."
but 17 types of bacteria formed a core microbiome across all samples. Fierer says that understanding more about the bacterial ecology of the sky represents an exciting new frontier for natural history."
an electrical and computer engineer at Rice university in Houston, Texas."The data-points that matter will be different in a picture of the Eiffel Tower and a picture of your mother,
marks another step towards using nucleic acids as a practical way of storing information#one that is more compact and durable than current media such as hard disks or magnetic tape.#"
Japan s flagship K#supercomputer project narrowly escaped being shut down after auditors questioned whether Japan needed to host the world s fastest computer.
Fast-forward to 2013, and Shinzo Abe, head of the newly elected Liberal Democratic party-led government,
he told reporters after a tour of the supercomputer facility on 11 january. Science is a big winner in the government s massive#10.3-trillion economic stimulus package, approved by the cabinet on 15 january.
and significant boosts for many big scientific facilities (see Big winners)# including#8. 4#billion for data links between the K supercomputer and Japan s universities.
a satellite that will monitor natural disasters and measure atmospheric carbon dioxide levels. The extra cash will keep it on schedule for launch before April next year.
Computer simulations have indicated that a rare crystalline form of boron nitride would resist indentation even better than diamond
Researchers flocked to the field soon after a recipe for deriving the cells from adult mouse cells was announced in 2006
Massachusetts, would supply Sony Corporation of Tokyo with quantum dots for flat-screen televisions that will transmit more richly coloured images than other TVS on the market.
Demand for quantum dot displays, say industry watchers, could benefit quantum dot companies, bring down the price of these nanomaterials
"Displays are a potential market that could help quantum dot companies find traction, says Jonathan Melnick, an analyst at Lux Research in Boston, Massachusetts.
Near the backlight of a liquid-crystal display (LCD), for example, temperatures can be around 100#C. At this temperature,
The contrast with today s flat screens begins with the light source. Conventional LCDS use a high-intensity blue LED backlight
optoelectronics, including display components, will make up $310#million of a total $666 million in quantum dot revenues.
which it is exhausting the hydrogen at its core. In this phase, the star's slowly dimming luminosity is a highly sensitive indicator of its age,
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