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With the sheer bulk of mobile devices available in the market and the kind of power-consuming hardware they pack, battery time is becoming a critical factor for most users. U.S. Department of Energy(DoE) has now unveiled plans of enhancing battery power by 5 times within the next 5 years.

Given the sheer amount of data that needs to be sifted through for large-scale calculations such as worldwide weather forecast, supercomputers are a necessity. The Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility has now launched the world's fastest supercomputer, Titan, for researchers from a number of fields.

Purdue professors Michael Manfra and Gabor Csathy stand next to the high-mobility gallium-arsenide molecular beam epitaxy system at the Birck Nanotechnology Center and this new ultra-pure material lets electrons discover each other on the quantum dance floor. The ultra-pure material traps electrons between its layers and stops them bouncing around…

IBM has announced its latest entry into the world of high-performance computing with its Mira supercomputer.Based on next generation IBM Blue Gene the 10 petaflop Mira supercomputer will fuel national innovation.The system is to be installed at the Argonne National Laboratory and will be used to work through a variety of complex calculations to aid…