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Spacecraft must operate with utmost precision when conducting landing maneuvers on other planets, or docking to a space station. To ensure they do not drift off course, imaging sensors collect a fl ood of data that are analyzed in real time. Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Architecture and Software Technology FIRST have engineered a system based on multicore technologies that allow spacecraft to be piloted and positioned with pinpoint accuracy. It can be seen at the...

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Jan. 25, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Samplify Systems, Inc., today announces APAX(TM) application acceleration technology which improves the performance of multi-core processors. Samplify's APAX technology scales up to accommodate installations as large as supercomputing and cloud data centers, and scales down for seamless integration into application processors used in smart phones and mobile devices. Samplify will deliver APAX as both software for high-performance...

DALLAS, December 28, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The report "Global Mixed Signal System-on-a-Chip Market (2011-2016)" defines and segments the global mixed signal system-on-a-chip (MxSoC) market with analysis and forecasting of the global volumes, shipments and revenues. It also identifies driving and restraining factors for the gigantic global market with analysis of trends, opportunities, winning imperatives and challenges. The market is fully segmented and revenues and volumes are...

BURLINGAME, Calif. and SANTA CLARA, Calif., Dec. 22, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- PolyCore Software, Inc. (PSI) and Tensilica®, Inc. today announced a partnership to make it easier and faster for developers to port their software to, or design software for, integrated circuits with multiple Tensilica dataplane processors (DPUs). PSI's Poly-Platform(TM) toolset now comprehends Tensilica's entire DPU family, which ranges from small footprint controllers to the industry's highest-performance DSP...

Virginia Tech crashed the supercomputing arena in 2003 with System X, a machine that placed the university among the world's top computational research facilities. Now comes HokieSpeed, a new supercomputer that is up to 22 times faster and yet a quarter of the size of X, boasting a single-precision peak of 455 teraflops, or 455 trillion operations per second, and a double-precision peak of 240 teraflops, or 240 trillion operations per second. That's enough computational capability to place...

HOLLYWOOD, Calif., Dec. 19, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Medbox, Inc. (Ticker: MDBX) (www.medboxinc.com) today announced their newly appointed officers and directors after their acquisition of Prescription Vending Machines, Inc. (PVM). PVM's Founder and CEO, Vincent Mehdizadeh, commented on his fellow appointees by stating, "I am thrilled to have such dynamic individuals on our team, which are comprised of Doctorates and MBAs. We are entering a period of rapid growth and the expertise...

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia and ARMONK, N.Y., Dec. 19, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that the Slovak Academy of Science has chosen IBM technology to launch an important high-performance computing project in Slovakia. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20090416/IBMLOGO ) Working with local business partner DATALAN, IBM will provide a 96 teraflop supercomputer based on IBM's Power 775 and 755 systems and DS5300 storage. The supercomputer will be deployed...

TROY, Mich., Dec. 16, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Altair Engineering, Inc., today announced the opening of an exceptionally high-powered data center in Troy, Mich., this month to house and manage its growing HyperWorks On-Demand cloud-based computer-aided engineering (CAE) solution for customers who rely on high-performance computing. HyperWorks On-Demand (HWOD) is a high-performance computing (HPC) solution for design innovation in the cloud. HWOD leverages Altair's patented licensing...

STERLING, Va., Dec. 7, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- IceWEB, Inc.(TM) (OTCBB: IWEB), www.IceWEB.com, a leading provider of Unified Data Storage and building blocks for cloud storage networks, announced today that its new Model 6500 High Performance and High Availability Cluster Unified Storage Platform was reviewed on December 6, 2011 by CRN.com. The entire review can be viewed at: http://www.iceweb.com/product_pdf/CRN-IceWebUnveils6500.pdf Edward J. Correia, the CRN reviewer...

STERLING, Va., Dec. 7, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- IceWEB, Inc.(TM) (OTCBB: IWEB), www.IceWEB.com, a leading provider of Unified Data Storage and building blocks for cloud storage networks, announced today its new Model 6500 High Performance and High-Availability Cluster Unified Storage Platform. With dual, multiprocessor controllers, redundant nodes, shared storage and no single-point of failure, the Model 6500 Cluster: Protects against hardware and network failures; eliminates...