'Uzi Supercomputers" would be a cool brand name, IMHO.
A prototype of what may be the next generation of personal computers has been developed by researchers in the University of Maryland’s A. James Clark School of Engineering. Capable of computing speeds 100 times faster than current desktops, the technology is based on parallel processing on a single chip.
Parallel processing is an approach that allows the computer to perform many different tasks simultaneously, a sharp contrast to the serial approach employed by conventional desktop computers. The prototype developed by Uzi Vishkin and his Clark School colleagues uses a circuit board about the size of a license plate on which they have mounted 64 parallel processors. To control those processors, they have developed the crucial parallel computer organization that allows the processors to work together and make programming practical and simple for software developers.
Using nanotechnology to build hdd and RAM.
A team of chemists at Brown University has devised a simple way to synthesize iron-platinum nanorods and nanowires while controlling both size and composition. Nanorods with uniform shape and magnetic alignment are one key to the next generation of high-density information storage, but have been difficult to make in bulk.
The technique, published June 22 in the journal Angewandte Chemie International Edition , produces nanorods and nanowires from 20 nm to 200 nm long, simply by varying the ratio of solvent and surfactant used in synthesis. Shouheng Sun, a professor of chemistry at Brown University, postdoctoral researcher Yanglong Hou, and colleagues have also demonstrated that the same technique works to control the shape of cobalt-platinum nanorods, suggesting that it may work for many other combinations as well.
Rise of the Machines: NASA Makes it’s Robotic Software Open Source.
Welcome to the CLARAty web site. This site contains information about the CLARAty reusable robotic software framework, videos of the capabilities that were demonstrated on real and simulated robotic platforms, and information on how to download and run the software. CLARAty stands for Coupled-Layer Architecture for Robotic Autonomy. It is a collaborative effort among four institutions: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA Ames Research Center, Carnegie Mellon, and the University of Minnesota.
Also included on this site is information on the development team and contributors who provided algorithms and infrastructure since CLARAty’s inception. We are grateful to the numerous contributions from this community as well as for the support of the Mars Technology Program and other NASA programs.
I don’t know about you, but I’m glad the software is reusable. I hate having to reinstall the software on my Mars rover constantly because it’s only single use.