The University of Louisville (UofL) announced today it has worked with IBM (NYSE: IBM) to double its high performance computing power as part of a $1.8 million investment in their supercomputing system. To fund this upgrade UofL received a $1.8 million grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration, a unit of the U.S. Department 000-M73 of Health and Human Services.
The new capacity will enable the University to proceed with advanced research projects such as discovering new approaches for treating pediatric cancer and developing better materials for solar power both of which are at critical development stages.
The updated supercomputer, nicknamed the Cardinal Research Cluster (CRC), was officially 'powered up' this month and will provide researchers at the UofL with much needed computing capacity. As part of today's announcement, IBM also awarded UofL a Shared University Research (SUR) award to help further their efforts.
The initial system, first installed in 2009, was working at 100 percent capacity as researchers tested the limits of the IBM iDataPlex high performance computing cluster. With this smarter computing system that is designed and optimized to meet the University's high capacity needs, researchers can speed up potential medical breakthroughs.
For example, researchers at the UofL James Graham Brown Cancer Center working on cancer treatments for the last 3 years have screened over 200 cancer targets. The enhanced computer will enable an additional focus on pediatric cancers, such as Neuroblastoma and Ewing's Sarcoma.
The supercomputer is also helping UofL researchers at the Conn Center for Renewable Energy Research explore new approaches for capturing solar energy. Work is now underway to develop new semiconductor materials that can efficiently capture and store solar energy.
Our researchers and staff have been able to greatly expand innovation in critical areas with the help of the Cardinal Research Cluster. Collaborating with IBM has given the University access to high performing systems that optimally manage our research.
This includes the donation of extra computing systems and gives the university access to IBM engineers who will work closely with the University's information technology staff to get maximum performance from the supercomputer.
The research efforts at the University of Louisville are a prime example of the innovation needed across the United States to advance economic competiveness and improve quality of life for citizens. It's encouraging to see the progress the teams have made on smarter healthcare and energy projects using high performance computing technology from IBM.
The UofL CRC added a new iDataPlex systems to the 000-M73 original cluster and now has a peak speed of more than 40 teraflops (trillion calculations per second), roughly 10,000 to 20,000 times faster than today's average desktop computer.
IBM's signings of new business at its services COG-615 division surged 16 per cent in the second quarter, trouncing expectations and raising hopes that 2011 will be a good year for the technology sector.
Investors had feared that technology sales would slow in the second half, hurt by the economic uncertainty in Europe and Japan, as well as a drop in government spending. But IBM offset those challenges with strong growth in developing markets from Brazil to China, and robust sales of a new line of mainframe computers.
Analysts said the results marked a strong start to the tech earnings season, with other bellwethers such as Apple, Intel and Microsoft set to report quarterly results in coming days.
"IT spending and demand for software and services remains healthy despite all this economic turmoil, and businesses continue to invest in efficiency," he said. "We're seeing that in these results."
IBM said yesterday that signings rose to $14.3 billion during the second quarter, beating Wall Street projections and easing investor concerns after the closely COG-615 watched number dropped in the first quarter.
Tips to Extend Your Laptop Batterys Life Theres been studied recently about laptop COG-642 battery life as you know, such as, about how some folks thought Windows 7 was misreporting laptop battery levels, but in reality it appears that the OS is simply accurately indicating battery wear, so you can be better informed about when to replace new battery. Your laptop battery starts losing capacity as soon as you drive it off the lot, and after a year or two you might need to get a new battery just to get an hour or two away from an outlet.
"India has long played a valuable role in IBM's business," Di Leo said in a statement. "As we expand our operations into new territories, it continues to provide a valuable source of growth and skills for the company."
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"Well, I like Congresswoman 000-068 Bachmann. I've campaigned for her. I respect her. But her record of accomplishment in Congress is nonexistent. It's nonexistent," he said. "And so we're not looking for folks who, you know, just have-- speech capabilities. We're lookin' for people who can lead a large enterprise in a public setting and drive it to conclusion. I've done that and she hasn't.
"India has long played a valuable role in IBM's business," Di Leo said in a statement. "As we expand our operations into new territories, it continues to provide a valuable source of growth and skills for the company."
IBM said in April that some of its strongest growth during the first quarter occurred in emerging markets such as China and India. IBM already has an office in Tamil Nadu's capital of Chennai. The Coimbatore office will improve its access to customers in health care, government, banking, textiles, engineering, manufacturing and IT services, IBM said.
IBM said in April that some of its strongest growth during the first quarter occurred in emerging markets such as China and India. IBM already has an office in Tamil Nadu's capital of Chennai. The Coimbatore office will improve its access to customers in health 000-068 care, government, banking, textiles, engineering, manufacturing and IT services, IBM said.
Pawlenty told Gregory on Meet The Press that 000-164 when it came to whether homosexuality was a choice or an innate part of a person's character, "the science in that regard is in dispute" and that it was unclear whether it was "behavioral or partly genetic."
There's no scientific conclusion that it's genetic,he said. We don't know that. So we don't know to what extent, you know, it's behavioral and-- that's something that's been debated by scientists for a long time. But as I understand the science, there's no current conclusion that it's genetic.
As if he hadn't distanced himself from gay rights activist Lady Gaga enough already, he added that he was only "subjected to" her music by his teenage daughters, although it has some "good qualities."
Coimbatore is the home base for more than 25,000 businesses. IBM said the city's economy has grown quickly as its textile, manufacturing and IT services industries have taken off. IBM wants to provide services such as information management, security and networking, cloud computing, business analytics, strategic outsourcing and hosting for those industries, it said.
IBM has opened a second office in the south 000-164 Indian state of Tamil Nadu, expanding its reach in that region's fast-growing economy.
So what steps can you take to make the 000-423 battery last as long as possible? remenber, Im not talking about optimizing the runtime on a single charge. I am talking about getting as much mileage as possible from a battery before you have to replace it just to get a reasonable runtime out of each charge. Here are a few ways you can get the most out of HP Compaq Laptop Battery
Keep your laptop battery cool. all Batteries degrade more quickly when theyre hot. That means you should keep clear and cool Dont pack your laptop away in a backpack or other enclosed space when the battery is still warm, trapping the heat. A battery thats frequently hot to the touch will lose life a lot faster than a battery that isnt constantly being stressed.
Dont charge your laptop constantly. If you only occasionally take your laptop away from a power outlet, but leave it plugged in to charge 24/7, youre leaving your laptop in a state of perpetual charge at the 100% point and that is bad for the batterys long-time health.
If you tend to use your laptop mainly at your desk, exercise your laptop battery by running it down and recharging it twice a month. Alternately, you might want to physically remove the laptop battery if youre using the laptop at your desk for long stretches of time. If you do remove it, dont store it in a fully charged or depleted state. Its best to store it in the middle or between 40 and 50 percent of full charge.
Despite all this, Blogging has been increasingly 000-423 becoming significant. Although marginally, the number of active bloggers is increasing. Its an upcoming trend, which has become a platform for writers to showcase their skills to the world, for celebs to connect, to frame public opinion, for the media to inform or for people like my friend: To open up.
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Not only the common man, but the whos who of Indian 000-562 society also maintain blogs. Celebrities like Amir Khan, Karan Johar, LK Advani and Shah Rukh khan update their blogs regularly to keep in touch with their fans, and also allow them insights of their lives. The mainstream media is also taking a note of blogging in many ways. Blogs form an important source for analyzing, gaining news, framing public opinion or informing the masses. Dailies like DNA and Pune Tabloid, recommend famous blogs for their readers to read. Many are skeptic that blogging will take over journalism; however, since in India its a novel habit, one cant be too sure.
Another issue is the increasing controversies surrounding blogs. Most of the content on the blogs is uncensored. Hence, a lot of conflicts and issues arise when there is a blog which directly attacks a certain someone or something. One such example was the blog on IIPM by IBM employer Gaurav Sabnis, which highlighted the negative side of IIPM. IIPM threatened to boycott the usage of IBM laptops. In the end, Sabnis was forced to quit his job. This was the first blogging controversy in India.
Jumping off Tim Pawlenty's professed admiration for Lady Gaga's gay anthem "Born This Way," NBC's David Gregory asked the presidential candidate if he thought gays were, in fact, born into their orientation. According to Pawlenty, the answer is above his pay grade.
Gregory's question touches on a particularly loaded topic for GOP candidates at the moment. Michele Bachmann's husband, who has called gays "barbarians," is under fire over a new report in The Nation that his clinic engaged in "gay conversion therapy" to try to "cure" patients of their homosexual desires.
Pawlenty took a dig at Bachmann in his Meet The Press 000-562 appearance, but over her sparse list of legislative accomplishments as a lawmaker.
My friend was a victim of child sexual abuse. Not even her 000-765 family members were aware of that. We all came to know about that from one source- her blog!
A blog is an online journal, a public diary, or just a platform for one to speak up. Although my friends blog came as a shock, it wasnt unusual. Many have taken to blogging to open up about a side of themselves that no one knew about. And now, India has taken to blogging. Its proving to be an upcoming trend in the social media.
Social media is coming down as the fifth estate. It has taken media to new revolutions; social networking and blogging have taken priority. It gives you a platform to interact, to showcase your talent, put forth your views etc. according to Indib I blog therefore I am Indian blogosphere started around 2002-03. Since then, it keeps on growing steadily with almost 39% Indians, according to surveys, who are aware of and read blogs. However, only 14% are active bloggers. Today, blogging has been expanded to many languages like Marathi, Telegu etc.
Coimbatore is the home base for more than 25,000 businesses. IBM said the city's economy has grown quickly as its textile, manufacturing and IT services industries have taken off. IBM wants to provide services such as information management, security 000-765 and networking, cloud computing, business analytics, strategic outsourcing and hosting for those industries, it said.
IBM has opened a second office in the 000-M94 south Indian state of Tamil Nadu, expanding its reach in that region's fast-growing economy.
The computer and consulting-services company, based in Armonk, N.Y., said Wednesday that the new office in Coimbatore is part of an ongoing campaign to invest in India, where IBM is among the largest technology companies operating.
The company is spending fast to build new facilities, train and recruit new workers and increase sales by expanding into smaller cities, it said. The goal is to have operations in 40 Indian cities by 2013. It already has more than 230 branch offices in 55 "growth market" countries, said Bruce Di Leo, general manager of IBM's Growth Markets unit. The computer and consulting-services company, based in Armonk, N.Y., said Wednesday that the new office in Coimbatore is part of an ongoing campaign to invest in India, where IBM is among the largest technology companies operating.
The company is spending fast to build new facilities, train and recruit new workers and increase sales by expanding into smaller cities, it said. The goal is to have 000-M94 operations in 40 Indian cities by 2013. It already has more than 230 branch offices in 55 "growth market" countries, said Bruce Di Leo, general manager of IBM's Growth Markets unit.
The move increases the tension between the 70-599 two companies at the top of the search market.
Ciao and other Microsoft sites including Foundem and ejustice.fr complained to the EU that Google was abusing its dominant position by lowering the ranking of unpaid search results of competitor services in November.
Microsoft declined to comment.
Google says its Panda update aimed to reduce the visibility of low quality websites that carry duplicate content that can be found elsewhere on the web. Google has also reduced the visibility of sites that carry heavy advertising.
However, the update has punished many sites that legitimately duplicate content such as product descriptions.
User recommendation site Qype lost almost 96% of its SEO visibility following the update but the company says it is relaxed about its new Google positioning, with a source adding: its still very much business as usual.
Other brands that suffered from the Panda update included 70-599 Play.com, ehow.co.uk, about.com and Future Publishings Tech Radar.
But it is the technology surrounding the mainframe 000-053 that really pays off for I.B.M. today. Mainframe hardware alone accounts for less than 4 percent of its revenue. But when the software, storage and services contracts linked to mainframe computers are included, the figure rises to 25 percent and as much as 45 percent of operating profit, estimates A. M. Sacconaghi, an analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein & Company.
AT the moment, Microsoft is the tech company that most squarely confronts the post-monopoly predicament, as I.B.M. once did. Some of the similarities are striking, right down to the long-running federal antitrust suits that both companies endured.
But unlike I.B.M. in the early 1990s, Microsoft is not a company in crisis. It is growing steadily and remains immensely profitable. It has nurtured new businesses beyond its lucrative stronghold in personal computer software: the Windows operating system and its Office programs for word processing, spreadsheets and presentations.
Microsoft has invested for nearly two decades to build up business database software and server operating systems that run larger data-serving computers in data centers. An I.B.M. executive once declared that Microsofts attempt to move into data center computing would be its Vietnam, a humbling setback. And many analysts predicted that Microsoft would be thwarted in data centers by 000-053 competition from Linux, the free operating system.
There is evidence that the book, published last 000-539 Thursday, may find a market outside the I.B.M. orbit. Pearson printed an initial 13,000 copies for the retail market, and based mainly on preorders on Amazon ($18 in paperback; $10 Kindle), there have been two additional printings of 11,000 copies.
If you analyze aggregated cellphone traffic as researchers at M.I.T., AT&T and I.B.M. did with United States data from July of last year interesting patterns emerge.
Cities become connective hubs as people move to them from nearby counties and from far across the country. As a result, many calls originate and end in cities, connecting urban citizens to their families back home.
At the same time, communities emerge that have little to do with geographic boundaries. While some follow state lines, others split states in half or combine them.
There are sister states like Georgia and Alabama, and Mississippi and Louisiana. New Jersey and California, on the other hand, split in half because of the influences of large cities. Chattanooga, Tenn., communicates more with the Georgia-Alabama community than with the rest of Tennessee, and Pittsburgh splits from Pennsylvania to align with West Virginia. Texas remains whole, because the 000-539 communication among Dallas, Houston, San Antonio and Austin is strong enough to hold it together.
The book, Making the World Work Better: The Ideas 000-563 That Shaped a Century and a Company, is a hefty trade paperback that runs 352 pages, including 351 footnotes. It chronicles the last century from three perspectives the development of computer science, the evolution of the modern corporation and the ever-expanding uses of information technology in science, government and industry.
The concept, explained Jon Iwata, I.B.M.s senior vice president for marketing and communications, was to get three writers to tackle those three subjects and tell the story of the larger evolution and I.B.M.s place in it.
The project got an inadvertent assist from the current travails in the field of journalism, with magazines folding, cutting back and retooling. That meant three accomplished technology journalists were available and signed up: Kevin Maney, a former columnist for USA Today and contributing editor to Condé Nast Portfolio; Steve Hamm, a former senior writer for Business Week; and Jeffrey M. OBrien, a former senior editor at Fortune and Wired.
I.B.M. plays a more central role in some portions of the book than others. The company is most prominent in the section on computer science, where I.B.M. has an unrivaled record of breakthroughs in hardware and software over the years. In the section on the applications of technology, I.B.M. examples are often featured, but the main focus is on what Mr. OBrien identifies as the steps that constitute 000-563 a model for how to instigate progress: seeing, mapping, understanding, believing and acting.
The software for mining vast data troves is 000-819 called business intelligence or analytics software. In the last five years, I.B.M. has spent $14 billion acquiring 25 specialist companies in analytics. The companys analytics unit now employs 8,000 consultants and 200 mathematicians.
I.B.M. also raised its forecast for operating profit for the year, to at least $13.15 a share. The earlier guidance was for at least $13 a share.
In a statement, Samuel J. Palmisano, I.B.M.s chief executive, said the company saw excellent momentum in areas it had pegged for higher growth, including business intelligence software and emerging markets abroad.
I.B.M. reported that net income rose 10 percent in the quarter to $2.9 billion. Its earnings rose more, by 17 percent, to $2.31 a share, reflecting fewer shares outstanding as a result of the companys stock repurchase program. And its operating earnings, the figure tracked most closely by Wall Street analysts, rose 21 percent to $2.41 a share.
The earnings performance easily surpassed the average estimate by analysts of $2.30 a share, as compiled by FactSet Research.
It allows you to tame a spectrum that before was the wild, wild West, he said. For example, it might make possible a new class of Wi-Fi-style communications gear for 000-819 wireless applications, or allow set-top cable boxes to be redesigned to send and receive ever-larger amounts of high-resolution video and data.
Cost cutting and share buybacks are part of the 000-M88 answer, analysts say, but so is the steady move into higher-margin businesses and new markets. These include applying research and computing to help governments tackle challenges like traffic management, water conservation and energy use. Last week, for example, I.B.M. announced a deal with the California Department of Transportation to build systems for predicting and managing traffic.
Technology markets are known for rapid, unpredictable turns. Yet I.B.M. issues five-year plans and pretty much sticks to them. The current plan, running to 2015, singles out a few market niches for high growth.
One sector earmarked for growth is cloud computing, the technology industrys buzz term for tapping into computing resources and information in big data centers remotely over the Internet from anywhere, as if the services were in a cloud. I.B.M forecasts that its cloud business will reach $7 billion by 2015.
Another market singled out for rapid expansion is the business of helping companies mine data for useful information such as using Web traffic and social-network postings to guide marketing, sales, manufacturing and purchasing decisions.
The biggest change facing corporations is the explosion of data, said David Grossman, an analyst at Stifel Nicolaus. The best business is in helping customers analyze and 000-M88 manage all that data, and I.B.M. is making a big push there.
In a conference call, Mark Loughridge, the chief 000-M95 financial officer, described Watson, I.B.M.s Jeopardy-playing supercomputer, as a triumph of the companys skills in analytics. In February, Watson beat two human Jeopardy champions. We didnt invest just to play Jeopardy, he said. We invested to provide leadership applications for our clients.
I.B.M. said its analytics business grew 20 percent in the quarter. The 2015 goal for that business is $16 billion.
I.B.M. has a large business in Japan, about 11 percent of its total revenue, or more than $10 billion a year. Yet despite the exposure to Japan, I.B.M. had little impact in the first quarter from the tsunami and earthquake on March 11. Three-quarters of I.B.M.s business in Japan is in services, which are typically sold under contracts lasting a year or more. Services tend to be more stable in turbulent times, Mr. Loughridge said. Aided by lax oversight and by corporations that profited from his scheme, a former technology consultant stole $3.6 million over six years from the Department of Education to finance flashy cars and real estate speculation, federal authorities said on Thursday.
The payments, investigators said this week, were going through a company called Lanham Enterprises, which was owned by Willard Lanham, the same 000-M95 person who was directing the wiring project for the city.
Lanham Enterprises would then submit highly 000-M97 marked-up bills to another company, which in turn submitted marked-up bills to Verizon or I.B.M. Those companies then marked the bills up further when they submitted them to the department at rates as high as $290 an hour, according to investigators. The citys report suggests that the companies marked up the bills with Mr. Lanhams approval. None of the companies have been accused of any crime.
As the invoices traveled from one company to the next, the actual work performed by the five employees became more muddled and harder to discern.
Lanham Enterprises described them as telecommunications consultants on its bills. The companies that paid Lanham often billed Verizon or I.B.M for consulting services, but Verizons bills to the department did not refer consultants. According to the report, the bills mentioned things like installations-integration services and referred to the consultants as multiple or various on the spreadsheets that were supposed to have detailed the nature of the work. Still, the city paid the bills.
A Verizon manager acknowledged to investigators that Mr. Lanham had threatened to steer its work to I.B.M. if Verizon did not agree to use one of the intermediary 000-M97 companies, Custom Computer Specialists of Hauppauge, that Mr. Lanham wanted them to use.
Mr. Doherty added that display manufacturers 000-M99 were especially interested in graphene because the current wave of displays based on OLEDs, or organic light-emitting diodes, have limited lifespans.
Last year, researchers at Sungkyunkwan University in South Korea announced that they had scaled up a technique to make full-screen displays based on an approach to making graphene film pioneered at the University of Texas, Austin.
The promise of the low cost of the material could also push graphene into todays conventional consumer electronics systems.
In principle it can be made very cheap and it can be light-transparent, Dr. Avouris said, and so even if we dont go for high frequency, I think it can revolutionize the price of radio-frequency electronics.
He acknowledged that while I.B.M. was now able to build circuits from the material, it was still learning reliable ways to make large quantities of graphene film. It is now possible to heat a silicon carbide wafer to about 1,300 degrees Celsius (nearly 2,400 Fahrenheit), causing the silicon atoms on the 000-M99 surface to evaporate and the remaining carbon atoms to rearrange themselves into the hexagonal graphene shape.
In the Science paper, the I.B.M. researchers 000-R24 describe a demonstration in which they deposited several layers of graphene on a silicon wafer, then created circuits based on graphene transistors and components known as inductors. They demonstrated frequency mixing up to speeds of 10 gigahertz.
In the past I.B.M. has created stand-alone graphene transistors, but not complete electronic circuits.
Scientists began making flakes of graphene, an atomic-scale lattice of carbon atoms, in the 1970s. They have gradually refined the process so they can now produce films of the material that are just a single atom thick. The film arranges itself in a hexagon-shaped array of carbon atoms and has the advantages of being flexible, transparent and inexpensive to manufacture.
Evolving beyond past success is a daunting task for companies in all industries. But that problem is magnified in the technology arena, where companies can quickly rise to rule a market, seemingly invincible, until a shift in the technological landscape opens the door to a new generation of corporate dynamos.
That is certainly the test that Microsoft is struggling 000-R24 with today, as it seeks growth beyond its lucrative stronghold in personal computer software. If they are to prosper for the long haul, Google and Apple, too, must reach beyond their dominant businesses. Each of these companies, in its way, is trying.
