The error is expected to most easily affect the sub-0.25 micron process technology as alpha particles from the packaging around chips intrude on the technology. The chip giant hopes that by using a simulation and modelling process, the number of...
DNA testing involves two basic stages: amplification, where blood samples are replicated, and detection, where harvested DNA samples are compared to other genes. The chip, called a MEMS (microelectromechanical system), essentially performs several...
Blue Gene's original mission was to tackle the computationally onerous task of using the laws of physics to predict how chains of biochemical building blocks described by DNA fold into proteins - massive molecules such as hemoglobin or testosterone.
The Computational Research Laboratories - a subsidiary of the Tata conglomerate, India - installed a HP Cluster Platform 3000 BL460c system with 117.9 teraflops. The number two system on the list, the Blue Gene/P located in a lab in Germany that's...
Scientists at IBM are conducting research into arranging carbon nanotubes - strands of carbon atoms that can conduct electricity - into arrays with DNA molecules. Once the nanotube array has been constructed, the laboratory-generated DNA molecules...
The scientists hope to unlock the secrets of the insects' tiny brains - they have about 950,000 brain cells to a human's 100 billion - by analysing how they make complex choices about which routes to fly between flowers.