High Performance

Michael G. Winston: As Chief Transformation Officer — This is the second installment in a three part series addressing leadership challenges Barack Obama will face in these turbulent times. In addition to Commander-In-Chief, the 44th President will play the roles of CEO, CTO, and most importantly, CLO. These refer to roles of Chief Executive Officer, Chief Transformation Officer and Chief Leadership Officer. Last time, we addressed President as Chief Executive Officer. This time, we will examine his role as Chief Transformation Officer. A clear vision, sound strategy and high-performance culture are enablers of real change today. The focus must be on moving the Country in a different direction...... [Tags: 44th president, agility, assumption, bad news, balance of power]

China’s Spiraling Shanghai Tower Breaks Ground — Recently Gensler broke ground on a soaring sustainably skyscraper that is set to become the tallest tower in China. The slender, elegantly spiraling Shanghai Tower will rise 632 meters, making it the latest super-tall to spring up in China’s rapidly developing Luijiazui Finance and Trade Zone. A beacon for a more sustainable future, the skyscraper will feature a high-performance façade that shelters no fewer than nine sky gardens, a rainwater recycling system, and a series of wind turbines perched beneath its parapet. (more…)... [Tags: china, finance, high performance, parapet, rainwater recycling]

Ta ta, Tesla — Tesla Motors, a start-up focused on high-performance electric cars, appears to be in a bit of trouble. Although Tesla just raised an additional $40 million, it is asking for $400 million in low-interest loans from the federal government as part of the $25 billion loan package to the auto industry. ...... [Tags: auto industry, electric cars, federal government, high performance, loan package]

Bittorrent declares war on VoIP, gamers — The next internet meltdown Gamers, VoIP and video conference users beware. The leading BitTorrent software authors have declared war on you - and any users wanting to wring high performance out of their networks. A key design change in the P2P application promises to make the headaches faced by ISPs so far look like a party game. So what's happened, and why does it matter?…... [Tags: conference users, headaches, high performance, internet meltdown, isps]

HPC Systems Could Save the Economy — Universities, state officials push to broaden corporate access to high-performance computing (HPC) systems.... [Tags: economy, high performance, hpc systems, state officials, universities]

OCZ Adds to Its Fatal1ty-Branded Lineup with Three New Power Supplies — It's only a matter of time before someone comes up with a Fatal1ty brand energy drink (if it hasn't been done already), but in the meantime, Jonathan Wendel continues to have his gaming moniker marketed on more PC components, the latest being a line of power supplies by OCZ. "These high-performance power supplies were co-developed with the expertise of Johnathan “Fatal1ty” Wendel, 12-time World champion, to meet the specific needs of fellow gamers," OCZ wrote in a press release. "OCZ Fatal1ty Professional Series PSUs feature incredible performance to power the latest graphics cards and hard drives."The new 'co-developed' Fatal1ty power... [Tags: energy drink, fatal1ty, fellow gamers, graphics cards, hard drives]

Hynix Announces World's First 1 Gigabit GDDR5 Graphics DRAM — Hynix this week double-dipped into the record books by introducing the world's first and fastest 1 Gigabit GDDR5 graphics DRAM operating at 7Gb/s, a 40 percent improvement over 5Gb/s GDDR5. The new memory is built using a 54nm process and can process up to 28GB/s with a 32-bit I/O, the company claims. On a 512-bit memory bus, bandwidth should reach as high as 448GB/s.In addition to speed, Hynix also emphasized power consumption. The new memory requires just 1.35V as opposed to 1.5V inherent in previous generation GDDR5 memory. This means that the improved GDDR5 not only bodes well for future... [Tags: battery life, boon, bus bandwidth, dram, gigabit]

Samsung Launches Fast New SSDs for Enterprise Apps — New 25Gb and 50GB drives are designed specifically for high-performance server applications, such as video on demand, Web serving and on-line financial transaction processing. - High-end disk maker Samsung Electronics announced Nov. 25 that it is beginning to produce 25GB and 50GB solid state drives for performance-optimized server applications, such as video on demand, Web serving and on-line transaction processing. The announcement emanated from the company's Eschborn,...... [Tags: demand web, enterprise apps, eschborn, financial transaction, high performance]

      Yes folks that is one hot looking sports car but what is even hotter is that it is hydrogen powered. Ya I know it’s only a concept from Honda but still doesn’t it just make you drool. The FC Sport was unveiled last week at the L.A. Auto Show by Honda as part of their on-going research into hydrogen power for vehicles. The car was designed to show that the new green technologies can compete against any gas guzzler thrown at it. The ultimate goal for Honda with the FC Sport was to develop a lightweight vehicle... [Tags: center of gravity, drool, high performance, honda, hydrogen power]

Steve Souders is currently doing more to improve the performance of web pages and web browsers than anyone else out there. When he worked at Yahoo! he was responsible for YSlow (a great tool for measuring ways to improve the performance of your site) and he wrote the book on improving page performance: High Performance Web Sites. Now he works for Google but much of what he's up to is the same: Making web pages load faster. I've been really excited about one of his recent project releases: UA Profiler. The profiler is a tool that you can run in... [Tags: browser vendors, couple categories, google, high performance, hostnames]

Universal Bike Light Battery — Kevin sent in this neat bicycle light made from a recycled Parmesan cheese container. This would make a great addition to a lot of the DIY bike lights that we have featured on Make. [Thanks Kevin] This page describes the construction of a universal bike light battery with eight "C" cell rechargeable NiMh batteries. It is made from a Parmesan cheese container which is strong, lightweight, splash proof, dust proof, fits in a water bottle cage, and allows for complete serviceability of the batteries. High performance NiMh cells can raise the capacity of this unit to as much as... [Tags: bicycle light, bicycles, bike light, bike lights, c cell]

Virtualization and HPC - Will they ever marry? — Imaginary-server overhead SC08 Server virtualization has spent the past several decades moving out from the mainframe to Unix boxes and then out into the wild racks of x64 servers running Windows, Linux, and a smattering of other operating systems in the corporate data center. The one place where virtualization hasn't taken off is in high performance computing (HPC) clusters.…... [Tags: clusters, corporate data center, decades, high performance, hpc]

Karen Salmansohn: Sleep Your Way To Success — According to Charles Czeisler, a specialist in sleep deprivation at Harvard Medical School, lack of sleep can be as bad for productivity as drinking too much alcohol. "We now know that 24 hours without sleep, or a week of sleeping four or five hours a night, induces an impairment equivalent to having alcohol level in the blood," says Czeisler. "We would never say, 'This person is a great worker! He's drunk all the time!' ...yet we continue to celebrate people who sacrifice sleep for work." And Corporate America does promote workaholism amongst its ranks - pushing exec's to work marathon-100-hour-workweeks,... [Tags: alcohol level, antithesis, burning candles, ceo, corporate america]

Holy Moly, Mushkin Releases 16 Triple-Channel DDR3 Kits — Dual-channel memory might not be dead, but Intel's Core i7 platform has kicked off the era of triple-channel memory kits and most manufacturers have already jumped on board. Enter Mushkin, who not only is making tri-channel DDR3 kits available, but has launched 16 different models ranging in speed from 1066MHz to 1600MHz. 998674 – 3GB (3x1GB) XP3-10666 6-6-6-18 1.65V 998675 – 6GB (3x2GB) XP3-10666 6-6-6-18 1.65V 998676 – 3GB (3x1GB) HP3-10666 7-7-7-20 1.5-1.6V 998677 – 6GB (3x2GB) HP3-10666 7-7-7-20 1.5-1.6V 998583 – 3GB (3x1GB) EM3-10666 9-9-9-24 1.5V 998585 – 6GB (3x2GB) EM3-10666 9-9-9-24 1.5V 998678 – 3GB (3x1GB) XP3-12800 7-8-7-20... [Tags: dual channel memory, em3, existing products, flood, frostbyte]

NVIDIA: Supercom- puting to desktop — US technology firm NVIDIA rolled out high-performance "personal supercomputers" Tuesday that let desktop workstations handle mind-boggling tasks once far beyond their capabilities...... [Tags: capabilities, desktop workstations, high performance, nvidia, personal supercomputers]

Sun aims HPC at small organisations — New storage, cluster systems and software aim to take high-performance computing to smaller organisations, departments and branch offices... [Tags: aim, branch offices, cluster systems, high performance, storage]

BMW's Electric Car — The new Mini borrows a drive system from a high-performance electric sports car.... [Tags: bmw, electric car, electric sports car, high performance, new mini]

Silverlight, for Real This Time — Microsoft's RIA framework offers client-side programming with .Net languages and tools, plus high performance.... [Tags: client side programming, high performance, languages, microsoft, ria]

SC08 Video: How Ethernet Plans to Conquer the World — I spoke with Brad Booth, chairman of the Ethernet Alliance, at the SC 08 conference here in Austin, Texas today, and he noted that while Ethernet is entrenched in the corporate data center, it is the interconnect standard for little more than half of the Top 500 supercomputers. Other standards, such as Infiniband and proprietary cables, still hold sway over the high-performance computing set, but the Alliance hopes to change all that. To that end, Booth was happy to talk about how Ethernet is moving into HPC, storage, the home and pretty much everywhere else. In the video below, he talks... [Tags: austin texas, brain, corporate data center, ethernet alliance, ethernet cables]