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Blog The thinking goes that a small nuclear reactor could keep them aloft for months. And the key technology is a new kind of reactor called a quantum nucleonic device. A report from the New Scientist says that the US Department of Defence is...
[February 28, 2003, 16:50]
Novell Case Study: Westinghouse Electric Company
White Papers The Westinghouse Electric Company enjoys a long-standing and impressive reputation for its commitment to excellence in commercial nuclear reactor technology. The company wanted to facilitate a smooth, non-disruptive transition from a very stable...
[May 15, 2007, 0:00]
Nuclear Science Group Develops Eclipse-Based App On Linux
White Papers The Gumtree application is being developed as part of the $330 million replacement research reactor and the neutron beam instruments is the scientific arm of the project. In what appears to be a coup for the IBM-born Eclipse open source Java...
[April 19, 2007, 0:00]
Robot Sent To Chernobyl
News A team of government researchers, academic organizations and private industries has developed a robot that will be sent to the Chernobyl nuclear reactor in Ukraine to help detect problems. The robot, which uses technology from Silicon Graphics...
[May 28, 1999, 6:29]
Homeland Agency Scores 'F' For Network Security
News Ironically, a privately maintained nuclear reactor under the NRC's jurisdiction suffered an attack by the Slammer worm in early 2003. This year, two agencies earned an "A": the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the National Science Foundation.
[December 10, 2003, 7:55]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Or we may fruitfully return to the ideas of the 1950s, when every home was going to be powered by a soup-tin sized nuclear reactor. That's before the benefits of increased attention to detail and concentration which will naturally flow from the...
[October 20, 2006, 19:20]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog And then another friend got an email claiming to be from the Tesla Institute in Belgrade -- a research establishment -- saying that they had a decommissioned nuclear reactor on the premises (true, as far as I know) and had been informed that they...
[April 30, 1999, 22:41]
HP: Everything Can Be Bladed
Talkback Duh, how much more power does a blade system use then a more main stream commercial computer system.commerical off the shelf - ac power supply.blade server - nuclear reactor power supply.
[June 18, 2006, 17:22]
Intel: Heat Critical Issue In Chip Design
News Unfortunately, Gelsinger said, if nothing changes these chips will produce as much heat, for their proportional size, as a nuclear reactor. Heat is becoming one of the most critical issues in computer and semiconductor design, according to Intel...
[February 5, 2001, 14:11]
Buyers Turn Up The Heat On Server Makers
News If I fill all my racks with blades I am going to have a nuclear reactor," said one frustrated consultant who asked not to be named for this article. Three of the big server makers have spelt out the steps they are taking to address the burning...
[May 11, 2005, 10:25]
Don't Rush Into Quad Core
Leader More cores inevitably mean more heat, and if you're running blade servers then you're also probably dealing with power densities approaching that of a small nuclear reactor. At ZDNet UK we get pretty excited about new technology, so our mouths were...
[November 14, 2006, 14:12]
Intel Terahertz Transistor Breaks Speed Limits
News If it weren't for the power reduction inherent in the new design, it could be expected to need around half a kilowatt per square centimetre, a power density higher than that in a nuclear reactor and one that would present a severe challenge to...
[November 26, 2001, 9:06]
Intel Wants To Turn The Heat Down On Multi-core Chips
News Increasing transistor budgets, though, are such that in the next decade or so microprocessors could begin exuding as much heat, for their proportional size, as a nuclear reactor. There's more than one way to build a multi-chip microprocessor...
[August 20, 2002, 12:44]
