Orion hopes super PCs are stars
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If you need a supercomputer on your desktop, Orion Multisystems has a machine for you. Aiming at scientists and engineers who need to do serious data crunching, the Santa Clara start-up will
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A supercomputer that could help answer  some of science's biggest questions will be unveiled on Monday.
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This one is named Geminids because it seems to originate from the constellation Gemini. It will deliver about a dozen stars an hour.
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By Daily Record Staff  The Orion capsule, NASA's planned successor to the space shuttle, passed its first major construction milestone as the U.S. space agency and primary contractor Lockheed Martin Corp. set baseline system requirements.
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Constellation is defiantly optimistic regarding near-term challenges.
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WELLINGTON, New Zealand  -- A supercomputer used to generate the special effects for the "Lord of the Rings" movie trilogy is turning to commerce, offering its power to commercial customers worldwide, backers said Thursday.    Ranked 80th among the world's top 500 powerful computers, it can perform 2.8 trillion calculations per second, said Eric Pilon, a spokesman for the New Zealand Supercomputing Center...
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The latest image from NASA&#39;s Hubble Space Telescope highlights a stellar blast that was first discovered by an amateur astronomer a little more than a month ago.
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After turning millions of Internet users into virtual explorers of the world, the Internet search giant is now hoping to turn many of them into virtual stargazers.
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Search for alien life needs more processors SETI@home, the distributed computing project, is calling for more volunteers willing to donate their computers' downtime to the project which scans radio telescope data for evidence of intelligent alien life.â¦
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The US space agency gives the contract to build its new spacecraft Orion to Lockheed Martin.
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A troubled, 20-year journey to create the world&#39;s most powerful optical telescope is nearing an end, with astronomers hoping to begin using the instrument to look for heavenly breakthroughs early next year.
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SPACE.com / With NASA's announcement that aerospace firm Lockheed Martin will build its shuttle successor Orion, the agency is forging ahead with a test flight plan for the rockets to launch those future vehicles spaceward.
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The surface of one of the brightest stars in the night sky is imaged by scientists.
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NASA officials have set a requirements baseline for the Orion crew exploration vehicle, bringing the next U.S. spacecraft a step closer to construction.
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small-mass planets soon,&quot; said Paul Butler of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, the co-discoverer of one of the new planets.
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Scientists hope to build a giant âpinhole cameraâ in space to spot planets orbiting distant stars. The New Worlds Imager would be the size of a football field with a 30ft wide hole in the centre.
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A new company thinks it has the answer to the complaints of scientists and engineers looking for high-performance computing (HPC) on the desktop. The Orion Cluster Workstation packs the power of a PC cluster into a desktop-size package using low-power chips and an innovative motherboard design.