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Tuning in to the virtues of virtual labs

Written by: Writer
The grid’s huge communication and computation capacities could let scientists gather data and run...

Tuning Nanoparticles for Speed

Written by: Aaron Dubrow, TACC

UT chemical engineer simulates nanoscale systems to understand
and influence how particles behave in

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Tunneling Transistors

Written by: Aaron Dubrow

Quantum effects in "III-V" materials allow for faster, lower-energy nanotransistors

Tunneling Transistors
Carbon

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Tupperware Readies for Christmas Rush with IBM POWER7 Technology

Written by: Webmaster

IBM has announced that Tupperware Australia has upgraded to IBM POWER7 technology in time for this

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Turbocharge your job submissions!

Written by: Writer
December 2007 - October 2008 plot of Falkon across various systems (ANL/UC TG 316 processor cluster, SiCortex 5832 processor machine, IBM Blue Gene/P 4K and 160K processor machines). Over the past year, Falkon has seen wide deployment and usage across a variety of systems, from the TeraGrid, the SiCortex at Argonne National Laboratory, the IBM Blue Gene/P supercomputer at ALCF ANL, and the Sun Constellation supercomputer from the TeraGrid.

Applications that run thousands of jobs can cause headaches. Huge numbers of job submissions to a site often

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