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U.S. Supercomputers Are Starting To Fall Behind China’s Less Efficient Builds

July 26, 2024 admin China, Computers, energy efficiency, policy & politics, supercomputers

Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2024 13:12:41 +0000

For people who follow the geopolitical struggles of the western Pacific, it’s obvious that computer chips are a big deal. The world’s most advanced semiconductors come from Taiwan, an island off the coast of China. It’s under the control of its own government, but China claims to own the island. … [continued]

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With Kestrel on Deck, Advanced Computing Hit a Home Run Over 300 Clean Energy Projects

April 23, 2024 admin clean power, Computers, national renewable energy laboratory (nrel), Solar energy, supercomputers, wind energy

Credit to Author: US Department of Energy| Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2024 20:17:00 +0000

The National Renewable Energy Laboratory’s (NREL’s) high-performance computing (HPC), efficient data center operations, and powerful visualizations have left an indelible stamp on clean energy innovation. As the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) only national laboratory solely dedicated to energy efficiency and renewable energy research, NREL has highlighted the impactful contributions … [continued]

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Technological Revolutions: Part I

November 25, 2022 admin Aviation, cars, clean transport, Computers, consumer technology, Internet, tech adoption

Credit to Author: Arthur Frederick (Fritz) Hasler| Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2022 03:30:36 +0000

Travel The golden spike on the transcontinental railroad was driven in Promontory, Utah, in the spring of 1869. My great grandmother immigrated from Switzerland to Utah in the fall of 1866. “We were among the first company of saints (Mormons) to travel in comfortable cars across the plains.” A few years earlier, she would have […]

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Number Theorist Fears All Published Math Is Wrong

September 26, 2019 admin AI, Computers, Math

Credit to Author: Mordechai Rorvig| Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2019 16:05:17 +0000

“I think there is a non-zero chance that some of our great castles are built on sand,” he said, arguing that we must begin to rely on AI to verify proofs.

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How Globalization Broke Gateway, the Cow Computer Company

August 7, 2019 admin Computers, gateway 2000, tedium

Credit to Author: Ernie Smith| Date: Wed, 07 Aug 2019 12:33:40 +0000

Thinking about the globalization of the computer industry through a tech company so American it prominently promoted its birth on an Iowa farm on its packaging.

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