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Submission + - Data Center Power of the Future

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on Saturday March 01, 2008 @01:39PM

tringtring writes: "Computer World reports on a HP Labs researcher Parthasarathy Ranganathan who foretells a future in which power management features will be built into the processor, memory, server, software and cooling systems. Coordination will be paramount. "What happens if you turn all these elements on at the same time?" the principal research scientist at HP Labs asks. "How do I make sure that the system doesn't explode?"

Power management systems will have to operate holistically, without one component conflicting with another, Ranganathan says. Ranganathan is just one of many researchers at the tech industry's biggest labs researching on how future data centers will handle increasing demands for processing capability and energy efficiency while simplifying IT."

Submission + - Limits to Moore's Law Launch New Computing Quests

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on Sunday February 17, 2008 @01:41PM

tringtring writes: "In anticipation of Moore's Law becoming irrelevant in the next 10 to 20 years, the National Science Foundation (NSF) wants funding for research that could lead to a replacement for current silicon technology. The NSF last week requested US$20 million from the U.S. government for fiscal 2009 to start the "Science and Engineering Beyond Moore's Law" effort, which would fund academic research on technologies, including carbon nanotubes, quantum computing (which seems to be doing quite well in the funding scene ) and massively multicore computers (which is resulting in other folks intensifying the hunt for parallel programming) , that could improve and replace current transistor technology (which is not exactly stagnant either)"

Submission + - Final Frontier for the Paper Plane - Space!

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on Thursday February 07, 2008 @02:55PM

tringtring writes: "Later this year Japanese scientists plan to launch a specially designed paper airplane from the International Space Station. Travelling at 17,000mph — the orbiting speed of the station — it is likely to cover more than a million miles before plunging into the Earth's atmosphere. A professor of aerospace engineering at Tokyo University showed the plane was capable of withstanding temperatures of up to 250C and winds seven times the speed of sound. He now plans to give a number of the 20cm planes, which have been treated with chemicals to resist heat and rain, to a Japanese astronaut for a launch from space station later this year. If the first mission is a success, the technology could be used to make unmanned spacecraft."

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