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Stem Cells without Side Effects
Technology Review Sep. 25, 2008
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Researchers at Harvard University,
the Harvard Stem Cell Institute, and
the MGH Center for Regenerative
Medicine have found a way to create
healthy stem cells from adult
cells--no embryo required--using an
adenovirus. The adenovirus can make
the transfer in mouse cells without
permanently integrating itself. The
resulting induced pluripotent...
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Saudi Arabia unveils grand
supercomputer ambitions
PC World Sep. 24, 2008
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Saudi Arabia plans to build a
petascale supercomputer system in
two years that could rank among the
10 most powerful systems in the
world, and beyond that, an exascale
system (1000 times as fast as
petascale). Code-named Shaheen
(Peregrine Falcon), it is being
built by IBM, based on the Blue
Gene/P System, and will intially run
at 222...
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Imaging nanoscale objects at
nanosecond speeds
KurzweilAI.net Sep. 26, 2008
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Lawrence Livermore National
Laboratory researchers have achieved
a milestone in materials science and
electron microscopy by imaging a
material at nanometer and nanosecond
scales, an unprecedented combination
of spatial and temporal resolution.
They used the Lab's new Dynamic
Transmission Electron Microscope
(DTEM) to image a multilayer foil...
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HP Labs aims at exascale computing
EE Times Sep. 19, 2008
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Hewlett-Packard Laboratories and
Georgia Institute of Technology are
planning to develop exascale data
centers with farms of
petaflop-caliber computers to
achieve 1,000-fold increases over
the world's fastest computers, using
virtualized multi-core processors
with special-purpose chips, like
graphics accelerators. Enhanced
large-scale...
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