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Massively Parallel Technologies (MPT), a provider of on-demand high- performance computing, announced the company has developed the first mathematical derivation of Amdahl’s Law. The derivation leads to a new level of understanding of the fundamentals underlying parallel processing, which has allowed MPT to establish a new standard for speeding up high performance computing. Amdahl’s Law, though never before proven through a mathematical derivation from first principles, helped establish the supercomputing industry and has for more than 30 years been a force in the industry. Read more…
from CNN.com
1. The Internet
2. Cell phone
3. Personal computers
4. Fiber optics
5. E-mail
6. Commercialized GPS
7. Portable computers
8. Memory storage discs
9. Consumer level digital camera
10. Radio frequency ID tags
11. MEMS
12. DNA fingerprinting
13. Air bags
14. ATM
15. Advanced batteries
16. Hybrid car
17. OLEDs
18. Display panels
19. HDTV
20. Space shuttle
21. Nanotechnology
22. Flash memory
23. Voice mail
24. Modern hearing aids
25. Short Range, High Frequency Radio
Without the Internet, you would not be reading this. There would be no way to instantly find the name of the movie your favorite actor was in five years ago or how much it costs to fly to Aruba. Shopping required braving the elements and the crowds. Paying bills relied on the postal service.
Today, with a couple of clicks, you can go anywhere in the world without leaving your computer.
from BBC NEWS | Science/Nature
Tiny robots powered by living muscle have been created by scientists at the University of California, Los Angeles.
The devices were formed by “growing” rat cells on microscopic silicon chips, the researchers report in the journal Nature Materials.
Less than a millimetre long, the miniscule robots can move themselves without any external source of power.
The work is a dramatic example of the marriage of biotechnology with the tiny world of nanotechnology.
Three new sites for the Accelerating Technology project:
NanoParadigm.com - basic nanotech resources
Self-Replicating.com | Mirror site: Self-Replication.com |
NanoTechnological.Net - select nanotech headlines
Florida scientists have grown a brain in a petri dish and taught it to fly a fighter plane.
Scientists at the university of Florida taught the ‘brain’, which was grown from 25,000 neural cells extracted from a rat embryo, to pilot an F-22 jet simulator.
The brain-in-a-dish was DeMarse’ idea. To produce it, 25,000 rat neurones were suspended in a specialised liquid to keep them alive and then laid across a grid of 60 electrodes in a small glass dish.
The cells at first looked like grains of sand under the microscope, but soon began to connect to form what scientists call a “live computation device” (a brain).
The scientists hope that their research will lead to hybrid computers with organic components, allowing more flexible and varied means of solving problems.
