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Nanotribology: Tubular probes

Studying microscopic interactions at single asperities is vital for the understanding of friction and lubrication at the macroscale. Surface probe instruments…

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Cloud Computing Enhances Problem Solving and Energy Efficiency

Propositional logic provides a convenient language for expressing real-world originated problems such as AI planning, automated test pattern generation,…

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RUB Researchers Break HDCP Code for Enhanced Copy Protection

For over a decade, Intel’s widely used copy protection HDCP has been trusted by the media industry, which carries out business in high-resolution digital video…

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New programming language to plug information leaks in software

The most common causes of security issues in today’s software are not inadequate network security, poor security protocols or weak encryption mechanisms. In…

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New Supercomputer Rankings for "Big Data" Machines Released

New rankings were released Tuesday in Seattle at SC2011, the international conference for high-performance computing.NNSA/SC Blue Gene/Q Prototype II has risen…

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SDSC’s ‘Gordon’ Among World’s 50 Fastest Supercomputers

SDSC researchers submitted an entry for Gordon using 218 teraflops per second (Tflop/s) and 12,608 cores – about 75 percent of the system. Built by SDSC…

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Next-Generation Supercomputer Boosters: Enhancing Research Power

Today supercomputers are an indispensable tool in almost all fields of research. However, present concepts cannot be extended indefinitely without causing an…

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EU Platform Unites Industry and Research for HPC Innovation

The objective of the ETP is to define Europe’s research priorities to develop European technology in all the segments of the HPC solution supply chain. It will…

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Georgia Tech Helps to Develop System That Will Detect Insider Threats from Massive Data Sets

With support from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the Army Research Office, researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology are…

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NIST Unveils Draft Roadmap for U.S. Cloud Computing Innovation

NIST plans to issue the final U.S. Government Cloud Computing Roadmap as a three-volume work. The first two volumes were posted for public comment on Nov. 1,…

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Driver Fitness: A Key Factor for Road Safety Innovation

Safety in traffic depends on a number of factors. One decisive aspect is how fit the driver is. A research team at the Technische Universitaet Muenchen (TUM),…

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RUB Researchers Hack RFID Smartcards for Enhanced Security

Professional safecrackers use a stethoscope to find the correct combination by listening to the clicks of the lock. Researchers at the Ruhr-University Bochum…

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Breakthrough Boosts Software Reliability and Security

Anyone who uses multithreaded computer programs — and that's all of us, as these are the programs that power nearly all software applications including…

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Wireless Demand Soon Outstriping Capacity

“We’re currently experiencing a mass migration from wired networks to wireless networks, which under the best of circumstances have far less capacity,” said…

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Your Phone as Friend: Monitoring Mental Health from Your Pocket

Tanzeem Choudhury, associate professor of computing and information science, is developing such an application, supported by the newly created Intel Science…

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NIST Updates Smart Grid Framework: Key Changes in 2023

The NIST Framework and Roadmap for Smart Grid Interoperability Standards, Release 2.0, builds upon and updates a January 2010 report. NIST's first outline,…

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