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Programmable Quantum Computer Created 132

Posted by Soulskill on Thursday November 26, 2009 @12:41PM from the four-out-of-five-ain't-bad dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A team at NIST (the National Institute of Standards and Technology) used berylium ions, lasers and electrodes to develop a quantum system that performed 160 randomly chosen routines. Other quantum systems to date have only been able to perform single, prescribed tasks. Other researchers say the system could be scaled up. 'The researchers ran each program 900 times. On average, the quantum computer operated accurately 79 percent of the time, the team reported in their paper.'"

Comment HiPER (Score 2, Informative) 234

by Xinvoker on Sunday November 15, 2009 @12:45PM (#30106358) Attached to: NIF Aims For the Ultimate Green Energy Source

HiPER will be a European project that will take advantage of the findings of NIF to use IC Fusion as an energy source. (NIF has mainly military purposes).It will hopefully be ready sooner than ITER, and much cheaper. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HiPER

Submission + - Lucid HYDRA Open GPU Scaling Tested (pcper.com)

Submitted by Vigile on Wednesday November 11, 2009 @09:30AM

Vigile writes: Lucid is a small company that seemed to promise the impossible: truly open GPU scaling performance across platforms and GPU vendors. Since late in 2008 Lucid has been talking about and showing off its HYDRA Engine technology that combines a hardware and software layer to facilitate DirectX game performance scaling based on individual objects and task division rather than alternate frame rendering. This method allows HYDRA to use different GPUs of varying performance levels and scale accordingly. PC Perspective was able to get some time with the reference system and benchmark a few games and different GPU combinations including identical NVIDIA cards, NVIDIA cards of different GPU generations and even a configuration using an ATI and NVIDIA graphics card simultaneously, all improving game performance to some degree. Though there were some inconsistencies in compatibility the overall impressions were favorable and point to a successful launch later this winter.

Submission + - Superheavy Element 114 Confirmed (lbl.gov)

Submitted by r00tyroot on Thursday November 05, 2009 @08:09PM

r00tyroot writes: Berkeley, CA – Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have been able to confirm the production of the superheavy element 114, ten years after a group in Russia, at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna, first claimed to have made it. The search for 114 has long been a key part of the quest for nuclear science’s hoped-for Island of Stability.

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