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Improving Cyber Connectivity, Scientific Collaboration among Institutions
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| The National Science Foundation announced 17 awards, totaling $20 million, through the Research Infrastructure Improvement Inter-Campus and Intra-Campus Cyber Connectivity program. This effort is part of the Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research, which supports states that have less extensive scientific infrastructures and have historically received fewer federal research dollars ...continue
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Crash Avoided in Overheated Datacenter
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| Computers in datacenters dislike hot weather even more than people do. If the temperature in their workspace gets hotter than 90 degrees, the machines figuratively walk off the job. But staff at Purdue recently developed a way to keep the machines running at all times — even during a loss of cooling — and save the research computation already completed ...continue
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GPU Processors May Threaten Password Security Systems
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| It's been called revolutionary — technology that lends supercomputer-level power to any desktop. What's more, this new capability comes in the form of a readily available piece of hardware, a graphics processing unit. Researchers are investigating whether this new calculating power might soon compromise a critical part of the world’s cyber-security infrastructure — password protection ...continue
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World Record Data Density Achieved
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| Scientists at Tohoku University in Japan have recorded data at a density of 4 trillion bits per square inch, which is a world record for the experimental ferroelectric data storage method. This density is about eight times the density of today's most advanced magnetic hard-disk drives ...continue
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Long Hot Summer of Fire and Floods Fit Predictions
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| Floods, fires, melting ice and feverish heat: From smoke-choked Moscow to water-soaked Pakistan and the High Arctic, the planet seems to be having a midsummer breakdown. It's not just a portent of things to come, scientists say, but a sign of troubling climate change already under way ...continue
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