Combination of low-power processors and flash memory creates energy efficient server

October 8th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Scientists at the University of Missouri (MU) are developing a nuclear energy battery that is smaller, lighter and more efficient than other batteries. "To provide enough power, we need certain methods with high energy density," said Jae Kwon, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at MU.

September 10th, 2009 WASHINGTON - In a new research, scientists at Rice University have used industry-standard lithographic techniques to deposit 10-nanometer stripes of amorphous graphite onto silicon, which brings graphite's potential as a mass data storage medium a step closer to reality. The research, by James Tour and postdoctoral associate Alexander Sinitskii from Rice University, facilitates the creation of potentially very dense, very stable nonvolatile memory for all kinds of digital devices.

September 9th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Brewing engineers from the Technische Universitaet Muenchen (TUM) in Germany are trying to literally make a 'green' beer, which during brewing, would allow energy savings of up to 20 percent. The engineers are working hard to improve the energy balance of the amber beverage.

August 22nd, 2009 WASHINGTON - A new study suggests that after making beer, the waste from breweries can be used to generate power. It would now mean a huge relief and an added advantage for brewers who face difficulty in getting rid of thousands of tons of grain left over at the end of the brewing process.

August 13th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Can camera flash actually turn an insulating material into a conductor? Yes, if Northwestern University researchers are to be believed. Lead researcher Jiaxing Huang, assistant professor of materials science and engineering at Northwestern's McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science have found a novel way of turning graphite oxide - a low-cost insulator made by oxidizing graphite powder-into graphene, a material that conducts electricity.

July 27th, 2009 LONDON - In an experiment, a team of scientists has created a transparent material, which could provide some insight into the cores of Jupiter and the other giant planets. According to a report in New Scientist, to create this exotic state of matter, researchers at the FLASH facility in Hamburg, Germany, took a thin piece of aluminum foil and blasted it with an X-ray laser that can generate about 10 million gigawatts of power per square centimeter.

July 17th, 2009 LONDON - An Indian researcher along with a colleague has developed a camera that takes photos with an invisible flash of infrared and ultraviolet light points to a smarter way to take photos in the dark. Dilip Krishnan and Rob Fergus at New York University made the camera to do away with intrusive regular flashes.

June 22nd, 2009 Ford to get loan to develop fuel-efficient autosWASHINGTON — The Energy Department is expected to announce that Ford Motor Co. will receive funds from a $25 billion federal loan program to develop fuel-efficient vehicles.

June 21st, 2009 WASHINGTON - You may see smaller, faster, more powerful, and less energy consuming electronic devices emerge in future, thanks to a new discovery by researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Describing their work in the journal Science, the researchers have revealed that it involves a method to measure intrinsic conducting properties of ferroelectric materials, which for decades have held tremendous promise but have eluded experimental proof.

June 18th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Electronic devices that will be more efficient and consume less energy than those present today may be just round the corner-all thanks to a breakthrough discovery by researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). And the discovery involves a method to measure intrinsic conducting properties of ferroelectric materials, which for decades have held tremendous promise but have not yet been proven in lab.

June 3rd, 2009 WASHINGTON - An Indian-origin researcher at the Georgia Institute of Technology is working on new heat transfer models that can be used in future data centre facilities to reduce the portion of electricity used to cool their equipment by as much as 15 percent. "Computers convert electricity to heat as they operate.

June 2nd, 2009 BANGALORE - Global chip maker Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) bets on Indian market for hard-selling its latest chipset with six-core server processor that is set to deliver more performance per watt on its Opteron platform. Code-named Istanbul, the 45-nanometre processor is being made available this month to global original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) such as Cray, Dell, HP, IBM and Sun Microsystems along with support from motherboard and infrastructure partners.

May 25th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Scientists have come up with a new computer memory device that can store thousands of times more data than conventional silicon chips and that too for more than one billion years. Packing more digital images, music, and other data onto silicon chips in USB drives and smart phones is like squeezing more strawberries into the same size supermarket carton.

April 25th, 2009 WASHINGTON - For the first time since April 8, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit went on a drive on April 23. The drive took Spirit about 1.7 meters (5.6 feet) toward destinationsbout 150 meters (about 500 feet) away.

April 4th, 2009 WASHINGTON - No need to panic if your hard disk is about to crash and you have not yet copied your favourite pictures and notes on a CD, for a new kind of computer memory may soon make 'back-up' a thing of the past. Racetrack memory, developed by Physicists at the University of Leeds and scientists at IBM Research's Zurich lab, may become the standard method of storing information in home computers.