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Carnival of Nuclear Energy 113
1. Idaho Samizdat - TEPCO's managers didn't want to use salt water to cool the reactors at Fukushima because they had the ludicrous objective of thinking the units could be saved. Jaczko spiked the NRC's plan to review the Yucca Mountain license application because of loyalty to his political sponsor, U.S. Sen. Harry Reid, who cares more about the livelihood of gambling casinos in Nevada than the nation's energy security.
Nextbigfuture should have over 20 million page views from May 2008 Today
Google Analytics should count over 20 million page views from May 2008 to Today.
Thanks to my readers for the success of Nextbigfuture.
 The site was started in early 2005. However, articles before October, 2005 were lost when blogger.com had a problem. The site has been running for 7.5 years. There was about 200,000 pageviews from then until April 2007. Then another 2.5 to 3 million page views from April 2007 to April 2008. Google Analytics and Sitemeter do not agree on the amount of traffic to the site. There are about 12,200 to 12,400 subscribers. 3468 likes on Facebook. The most popular article is the March,2011 version of the deaths per TWH article with almost 200,000 pageviews and 9718 facebook shares. There are 1843 followers on twitter. Read more » DOE funds pre-Exaflop technology development from Intel, AMD, Nvidia and Whamcloud to set the stage for Main Exaflop Supercomputer project
HPCWire - Intel, AMD, NVIDIA, and Whamcloud have been awarded tens of millions of dollars by the US Department of Energy (DOE) to kick-start research and development required to build exascale supercomputers. The work will be performed under the FastForward program, a joint effort run by the DOE Office of Science and the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) that will focus on developing future hardware and software technologies capable of supporting such machines.
Although we're only six to eight years away from the first exaflops systems, the DOE's primary exascale program has yet to be funded. (And since this is an election year in the US, such funding will probably not fall into place until 2013.) In the interim, FastForward was devised in order to begin the needed R&D for some of the exascale foundational technologies, in particular, processors, memory and storage.
At least some of the impetus for the program came from the vendors themselves. According to Mark Seager, Intel's CTO for the company's High Performance Computing Ecosystem group, the DOE was told by multiple commercial partners that research for the component pieces needed to get underway this year if they hoped to field an exascale machine by 2020. That led to the formation of the program, and apparently there was enough loose change rolling around at the Office of Science and NNSA to fund this more modest effort. Although all the FastForward subcontracts have yet to be made public, as of today there are four known awards: * Intel: $19 million for both processor and memory technologies * AMD: $12.6 million for processor and memory technologies * NVIDIA: $12 million for processor technology * Whamcloud (along with EMC, Cray and HDF Group): Unknown dollar amount for storage and I/O technologies Read more » DARPA developing lightweight undersuit that reduces injury and augments muscles
DARPA is seeking to make a lightweight, conformal under-suit that is transparent to the user (like a diver's wetsuit). The suit seeks to employ a system (or web) of closed-loop controlled actuation, transmission, and functional structures that protect injury prone areas, focusing on the soft tissues that connect and interface with the skeletal system. Other novel technologies that prevent, reduce, ambulate, and assist with healing of acute and chronic musculoskeletal injuries are also being sought.
In 2013, this "Warrior Web" project has $10.25 million in funding. We first covered this in September of 2011 and noted how this would be a supersuit like what Edna Mode provided for the Incredibles in the Pixar animation. In addition to direct injury mitigation, Warrior Web will have the capacity to augment positive work done by the muscles, to reduce the physical burden, by leveraging the web structure to impart joint torque at the ankle, knee, and hip joints. The suit seeks to reduce the metabolic cost of carrying a typical assault load, as well as compensate for the weight of the suit itself, while consuming no more than 100 Watts of electric power from the battery source.  Read more » Carnival of Space 258
1. DearAstronomer -Nearly a year ago, the Pluto-Charon Dwarf Planet system made headlines with the announcement that a fourth moon had been detected. Today, Alan Stern (SWRI) has announced via twitter ( @alanstern ) that a fifth moon has been detected in orbit around Pluto.
2. Supernova Condensate - So, with a newly discovered moon, exactly how large is Pluto's family anyway?  This image, taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, shows five moons orbiting the distant, icy dwarf planet Pluto. The green circle marks the newly discovered moon, designated P5, as photographed by Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 on July 7. The observations will help scientists in their planning for the July 2015 flyby of Pluto by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft. P4 was uncovered in Hubble imagery in 2011. (Credit: NASA; ESA; M. Showalter, SETI Institute) 3. Nextbigfuture - A team of astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is reporting the discovery of a fifth moon orbiting the icy dwarf planet Pluto. The moon is estimated to be irregular in shape and 6 to 15 miles across. It is in a 58,000-mile-diameter circular orbit around Pluto that is assumed to be co-planar with the other satellites in the system.  Read more » More Recent Articles | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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