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Watching the machine build through thelens of an electron microscope is otherworldlybut the printer s potential runs beyond microscale model making.

The printer s mirror-focused laser shines on and hardens a droplet of liquid plastic on a slide.

A computer moves the plate under the laser, selectively hardening it, layer by layer, to match a digital 3d model.

it s a fascinating peek into a future where information technologies may direct the fabrication of amazing newmicroarchitectural materials.

it may not be the only new computer-enabled approach to materials research. In a recent article, Scientific American predicted supercomputerswill yield a Golden age of materials science.

The article went on to note that the powerful modeling capabilities of supercomputers and the principles of quantum mechanics are together allowing scientists to build virtual materials atom by atom.

from the filament in a light bulb to the silicon in a computer chip. Whether we 3d print them

The technology involve a head-mounted display, custom video technology, and a targeted molecular agent that makes cancer cells glow

With his software Witty says users can set up and run a real-time experiment in a virtual online classroom that can explain

but let pull in widgets like 3d animation and so onhe said. his tool is focused on that group of people who need to learn visually

and with more and more foreign university students now returning to their home countries to begin their careers instead of staying in the U s. the outlook for continued U s. technical dominance is worrisome. don think the U s. can keep (leading the world)

Google and various automakers have increased their activity and investment toward the goal of self-driving vehicles,

with Google now focusing on fully driverless vehicles for the future, according to a report by IHS Automotive.

Last year, Google adjusted its approach to focus on fully autonomous vehicles that have the ability to operate without a driver at all,

#New Algorithm for Real-time Simulations in Materials Research Researchers at LBNL have have developed a new algorithm that opens the door for real-time simulations in atomic-level materials research.

For example, it can take a supercomputer several weeks to simulate a 10-femtosecond process. One reason for the high cost is that real-time simulations of ultrafast phenomena require small time steps to describe the movement of an electron

and visiting scholar Zhi Wang from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, have developed a new real-time time-dependent density function theory (rt-TDDFT) algorithm that increases the small time

The traditional algorithms work by directly manipulating these equations. Wang new approach, which involves adding a new algorithm on top of his PETOT (parallel total energy) code,

originally developed by Wang when he worked at the National Renewable energy Laboratory and later parallelized by Wang

PETOT is a plane-wave pseudopotential density functional ground-state calculation package designed for large system simulations to be run on large parallel computers

and Linux cluster machines.""With this new algorithm, the rt-TDDFT simulation can have speed comparable to the Born-Oppenheim ab initio molecular dynamics simulations,

the researchers wrote in the Physical Review Letters paper.""To achieve this, the algorithm expands the equations in PETOT into individual terms, based on

which states are excited at a given time. The challenge, which Wang has solved, is to figure out the time evolution of the individual terms.

describing the key to the algorithm success: Solving the equations in bigger time steps reduces the computational cost and increases the speed of the simulations."

"Comparing the new algorithm with the old, slower algorithm yields similar results, e g.,, the predicted energies and velocities of an atom passing through a layer of material are the same for both models,

Being able to run the code on a supercomputer like Hopper for long periods of time was central to the success of this study, according to Wang.

The new supercomputers are critical, and so are the fast processors, he said. his code does not necessarily scale to many processors.

Typically we use a few hundred processors. But the long time run is critical. Source: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory t

#Pointwise Adds Overset Grid Assembly to CFD Meshing Software Today Pointwise announced the latest release of its computational fluid dynamics (CFD) meshing software featuring direct integration with overset grid

assembly (OGA) software. The integration of grid generation and overset grid assembly represents a vast improvement over the hodge-podge of disparate tools typically employed by practitioners of overset CFD,

said Nick Wyman, Pointwise director of applied research. hat we are releasing today for production use is the result of a multi-year research effort Pointwise conducted with funding from the U s. Air force Arnold Engineering Development Complex,

Air force Materiel Command. That research was followed by a full year of fine-tuning in preparation for release to all our customers.

The overlap is computed using overset grid assembly software. Users of OGA software typically rely on a circuitous collection of homegrown tools that are patched together.

By integrating OGA (in the form of the PEGASUS and Suggar++software packages) with Pointwise the entire process is made more efficient.

Pointwise has been a proud, long-time sponsor of and participant in the biannual Overset Grid Symposium, said John Chawner,

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#HP Sports AMD Firepro GPUS in Proliant DL380 Gen9 Servers Today AMD announced that the AMD Firepro S9150 server GPU for HPC is now available on the HP Proliant DL380

Gen9 the world's best-selling server. AMD Firepro server GPUS combine with HP Proliant DL380 Gen9 servers for a variety of specialized applications including Academic

and Government clusters Oil and Gas research and Deep Neural networks. The AMD Firepro S9150 server GPU is supported by a powerful software ecosystem enabling developers to better harness its compute performance including support for Opencl 2. 0. Featuring the first AMD Graphics

Core Next (GCN) architecture specifically with compute workloads in mind the AMD Firepro S9150 server GPU supports enhanced double precision floating point computation and breaks the 2. 0

TFLOPS double precision barrier. With 16gb of GDDR5 memory and maximum power consumption of 235 watts AMD Firepro S9150 server GPUS provide massive compute performance

while helping maximize available power budgets. With AMD STREAM technology customers will be able to leverage the massive parallel processing power of the AMD Firepro S9150 server GPU

and accelerate applications beyond just graphics. The server GPU features: The AMD Firepro S9150 server GPU also provides support to handle workloads in a variety of sectors by enabling Openmp an API for high-level parallelism in the C C++ and Fortran languages.

In segments such as Oil and Gas Computer Aided Engineering and Computational Science many organizations have made substantial investments in Openmp to create scalable workloads.

AMD's collaboration with Pathscale to provide support for Openmp 4. 0 will allow customers in these HPC fields to harness the compute power of AMD Firepro S9150 server GPU.

Additionally AMD Firepro-S4000x server GPUS can be found the HP Proliant WS460C Graphics Server Blade5.

With high-quality 3d graphics and multidisplay functionality the AMD Firepro S4000x server GPU module delivers workstation-class graphics performance on remote desktops.

Designed with blade server and blade workstation platforms in mind each module consumes 45w maximum power includes 2gb of GDDR5 memory up to 72 GB/s of memory bandwidth

and the ability to support up to six high resolution remote displays s

#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.

#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.

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,

This reference design utilizes the Seagate Nytro Flash Accelerator Card, Supermicro Superserver SYS-4048b-TRFT system and Microsoft SQL SERVER 2014 Enterprise Edition to deliver a fully-optimized,

consistently high performing solution for quick and trusted deployment. Supermicro high-performance 4u 4-way SYS-4048b-TRFT Superserver

efficient deployment of Microsoft SQL SERVER 2014 Fast Track Data warehouse, said Don Clegg, vice president of marketing and business development at Supermicro. ur Microsoft certified solution comes preconfigured with quad Intel Xeon E7 processors, Seagate Nytro Flash Accelerator cards, memory,

storage and SQL SERVER 2014 installed and validated. With this turnkey solution, organizations can focus efforts on more strategic decision making activities around data analytics

and business intelligence to accelerate growth. For more information please visit http://www. seagate. com and Seagate and Microsoft Fast Track.

Information on Microsoft SQL SERVER Fast Track Data warehouse reference architecture can be found at Microsoft Solutions o

#Concept lamp on bioluminescent bacteria Bright (literally) marine life bioluminescent bacteria look very beautiful and unusual in their natural habitat,

This article was adapted from a post on the UCS blog The Equation. Mellon contributed this article to Livescience's Expert Voices:

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:

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.

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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.

and debates and become part of the discussion on Facebook Twitter and Google+.+The views expressed are those of the author

"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.

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,

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,

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

#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.

to deliver high-definition images that enable users to see the smaller features that are important in modern reservoirs.

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

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.

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 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,

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,

Still, the IBM chip is a far cry from a human brain, which contains about 86 trillion neurons and 100 trillion synapses."

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.

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.

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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