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(Asahi.com) After producing a champion of the fast and furious world of supercomputing, Japan's high-octane supercomputer program is facing a murky future...Two other extremely powerful supercomputers under development at U.S. labs, "Sequoia" at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and "Titan" at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, will be 20-petaflop machines, or capable of performing calculations two times faster than K, when they are completed next year...7/09
(Psychology Today) You know the "why didn't I think of that?" feeling when you observe a new idea or process... Xiaohui Cui at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee came up with an idea to better organize information on the internet by making the analogical connection between how information flocks and flows on the internet and "how birds of the same species flock and flow together"...7/10
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(SpecialChem) MesoCoat Inc., announced that their CermaClad™ high speed metal cladding technology has been awarded with the prestigious R&D 100 Award; this award is widely recognized as the "Oscar of Innovation". MesoCoat partnered with 'Oak Ridge National Laboratory' (ORNL) and 'Edison Materials Technology Center' (EMTEC) for this award; and MesoCoat looks forward to a strong continuing development partnership with both organizations...7/11
(Beaumont Enterprise) A high school science teacher at Bellows Free Academy in St. Albans will have some fresh lab experience to bring back to the classroom in September.
Glen McCabe was one of 20 teachers from around the country selected for a prestigious two-week fellowship to study at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee...7/10 |
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DOE
(Knoxville News Sentinel) In the latest issue of its three-times-a-year publication, Y-12 Report, the Y-12 nuclear weapons plant devotes most of the space to touting the proposed Uranium Processing Facility...7/7
State & Regional
(WBIR) Gov. Bill Haslam plans to take a more proactive approach when the General Assembly meets next year after struggling to catch up with the flood of legislative initiatives in his first session...7/10
East Tennessee
(Knoxville News Sentinel) Knox County Commission Chairman Mike Hammond is requesting that county Mayor Tim Burchett investigate if warning sirens for severe weather or an emergency could be beneficial for the region...7/11
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National
(Fox News) The trial and acquittal of Casey Anthony has spawned a slew of proposed laws named after her 2-year-old daughter Caylee, as lawmakers and their constituents try to extract some measure of reform out of a case that ended -- for many onlookers -- with frustration...7/8
(New York Times) For the second month in a row, employers added barely any jobs in June, showing that the economic recovery has hit a serious speed bump...7/8
(NPR) The Obama administration's decision to suspend $800 million in aid to the Pakistan's military signals a tougher U.S. line with a critical but sometimes unreliable partner in the fight against terrorism...7/10 |
Outlook cloudy for Japan's world-beating supercomputing program
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