Thursday, November 19, 2009, 2:22pm PST | Modified: Thursday, November 19, 2009, 2:35pm UC taps Alivisatos as Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory director San Francisco Business Times - by Steven E.F. Brown

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...simulation ran on one of IBM 's "Blue Gene" supercomputers, in this case at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL ). (An aside: LLNL is best known as the center for ongoing research into advanced nuclear weapons and related...

In this article: IBM, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Almaden Research Center, IBM Research, and Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

...from DARPA for Phase 1 of the project. The researchers built a cortical simulator that was run on the Dawn Blue Gene/P supercomputer at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. The supercomputer is powered by 147,456 processors and offers...

In this article: IBM, Darpa, All rights reserved, Trademark, Web-based, University of Wisconsin, University of California, Stanford, Cornell, and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

...and 10 trillion synapses in a cat's brain work together. The researchers created a program that told the supercomputer, which is in the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory , to behave how a brain is believed to behave. The computer was...

In this article: IBM, All rights reserved, Economics, Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study, IBM Research, Stanford University, George Mason University, and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

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...design something and the engineers figure out how to build it, how to heat it and how to cool it," said Eric Telesmanich , project manager of NREL's infrastructure and development office. In this case, engineers steered the design. Stantec...

In this article: National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Colorado, U.S., Department of Energy, Natural gas, and Recycled

...save the planet - climate change , renewable energy, new medicines - rather than advances in nuclear weapons that might blow it up. The Oak Ridge National Laboratory 's high-performance Jaguar XT5 computer, built by Seattle -based Cray Inc., was...

In this article: Jaguar, University of Tennessee, United States, Climate change, U.S. Department of Energy, Oak Ridge, Cray, and National Science Foundation

... Jaguar posted a performance speed of 1.759 petaflops or quadrillions of calculations per second. That dropped previous No. 1 Los Alamos National Laboratory 's IBM Roadrunner system in New Mexico to No. 2 with a speed of 1.04...

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The LHCb uses specialized detectors to analyze collisions within the LHC in relation to antimatter. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL ) relies on Dell HPC clusters in its database infrastructure to facilitate a wide range of...

In this article: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Climate change, Dell, Intel, Department of Energy, National Ignition Facility, and National Nuclear Security Administration

...as large as the mileage ratings would suggest," Anwyl says. The EPA is expected to rule on the matter by the end of 2009 or early 2010. The National Renewable Energy Laboratory , a government agency working with the EPA on the issue, has...

In this article: Edmunds.com, EPA, Chevy Volt, General Motors, Toyota Prius, USA Today, Nissan, Electric car, and Hydrogen

...techies who put together the Top 500 rankings - Hans Meuer of the University of Mannheim , Germany ; Erich Strohmaier and Horst Simon of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory ; and Jack Dongarra of the University of Tennessee - there are 427...

In this article: Linux, AMD, Intel, IBM, Recession, Hans Meuer, University of Tennessee, University of Mannheim, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and Los Alamos National Laboratory

Assistant Professor Hiro Furukawa , Ph. D., and colleagues at CSHL , in cooperation with the National Synchrotron Light Source at Brookhaven National Laboratory , obtained crystal structures for one of several "subunits" of the NMDA...

In this article: NMDA Receptor, Alzheimer's, Zinc, Memantine, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Medical advice, Amino-terminal, and Multiple sclerosis

...and 25 are under construction, for a combined generation capacity of nearly 15,000 megawatts, according to an Oct. 9 report by the National Energy Technology Laboratory. ( Santee Cooper has shelved plans for a Pee Dee coal -fuel power plant.)

In this article: Coal, Warren Buffett, Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp., United States, Revenue, Carbon, MidAmerican Energy, National Energy Technology Laboratory, and Evercore Partners

...of the Post Carbon Institute in California. It is the biggest obstacle to the reduction of global warming. If no action is taken, says the US Energy Information Administration , the country will emit about 7,550m tonnes of CO2 a year by...

In this article: Coal, US, Carbon dioxide, Carbon, Natural gas, Climate change, National Energy Technology Laboratory, Sequestration, and Department of Energy

...backs continued coal use. He has said if the US can put a man on the moon, it can find a way to capture and store carbon. The National Energy Technology Laboratory , owned and operated by the Department of Energy , predicts that by...

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...led by SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. SLAC has executed the project in partnership with Argonne National Laboratory and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. In addition, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory provided project...

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...the University of Central Florida this week for a U.S. Department of Energy workshop. The National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL ), part of DOE's national laboratory system, is coordinating the workshop as part of its efforts to "to...

In this article: University of Central Florida, National Energy Technology Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy, Climate change, MIT, Georgia Tech, and Siemens

...on Friday it has been awarded a contract to provide research and engineering services to the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL ). The contract includes a two-year base period and options that would extend it for an additional three...

In this article: National Energy Technology Laboratory, URS Corp, and U.S. Department of Energy