The National Institute for Computational Sciences (NICS) at the University of Tennessee (UT) is pleased to announce the 2014 open call for participation in the Beacon Project, an ongoing research project funded by the National Science Foundation and UT to explore the impact of emerging computer architectures on computational science and engineering. Beacon is a Cray CS300-AC … [Read more...]
Nov 2014 – AFRL will host the 2014 AFRL/Industry Autonomy IR&D TIMs
The 711th Human Performance Wing (HPW) and AFRL will host the 2014 AFRL/Industry Autonomy IR&D TIMs on 17-21 November 2014, Bldg. 190, Area B, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (WPAFB), Ohio. This event will focus on technology discussions for the four primary goals under AFRL's autonomy vision; (1) Human Machine Teaming, (2) Teams of Intelligent Machines, (3) … [Read more...]
Early Tech – Inexpensive Spray-on Photo Cells
Experts from the University of Sheffield’s Department of Physics and Astronomy and the University of Cambridge have created a method of spray-coating a photovoltaic active layer by an air based process – similar to spraying regular paint from a can – to develop a cheaper technique which can be mass produced. The trick is to coat an object in perovskite, a calcium titanium … [Read more...]
Recovering Speech from a Potato-chip Bag Viewed Through Soundproof Glass – Even With Commodity Cameras!
Potatoes have ears as well as eyes - or at least potato-chip bags have ears. Researchers from MIT, Microsoft, and Adobe have developed an algorithm that can reconstruct an audio signal by analyzing minute vibrations of objects depicted in video. The ACM paper, "The visual microphone: passive recovery of sound from video" describes the algorithm. Many surfaces flexible enough to … [Read more...]
UK To Allow Driverless Car Testing In A Few Cities
Following the lead set by California, Florida, and Nevada, the UK has announced two measures that give the green light for driverless cars to take to UK roads from January 2015. UK cities can now bid for a share of a £10 million competition to host a driverless cars trial. The government is calling on cities to join together with businesses and research organisations to put … [Read more...]
New Data Transmission Record 42 Terabits Per Second (Tbs)
"A team from Denmark working at the German Karlsruhe Institute for Technology has broken the data transmission rate record previously set by a team in Germany (32 terabits per second). In this new effort, the team (with the High-Speed Optical Communications Group) achieved a rate of 43 terabits per second using just one laser and one fiber cable." Read more … [Read more...]
Tegra K1 Drives Audi A7 In Florida Driverless Car Highway Test
Audi tested a fully equipped driverless A7 on a Florida highway at speeds up to 25 miles per hour. Governor Rick Scott, a proponent of driverless vehicles and signer of the bill that allows for testing such vehicles in the state, sat in the driver's seat without touching the controls for part of the test. Audi requested a shutdown of Tampa's Lee Roy Selmon … [Read more...]
Dongarra and Team Start New Supercomputing Journal
Jack Dongarra and his colleague Vladimir Voevodin have started a new peer-reviewed publication called “Journal Supercomputing Frontiers and Innovations” (JSFI). The Editorial Director is Leonid Sokolinsky at the South Ural State University in Chelyabinsk, Russia. Following is the foreword: Parallel scientific computing has entered a new era. Multicore processors on … [Read more...]
AMD Introduces an ARM64 Development Kit $2999
AMD is now accepting applications for the AMD Opteron™ A1100 Series 64-bit ARM Developers kit, which supports the RedHat ARM Partner Early Access Program for software and hardware developers as well as early adopters in large datacenters. The development kit provides the hardware and software needed to begin application development and evaluate the A1100 Series processors. … [Read more...]
Making a Difference – TACC Ranger Rides in Africa
The TACC (Texas Advanced Computing Center) Ranger supercomputer, which as the first NSF "Path to Petascale" system makes global journey to Africa. The student HPC team from the Center for High Performance Computing (CHPC) in Cape Town, South Africa recently won their second competition at ISC14 so we believe Ranger is in good hands and will continue to deliver quality … [Read more...]