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September 2008 will certainly go down as one of the blackest months in Wall Street history. Venerable financial institutions such as Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch, and AIG abruptly vanished or were radically overhauled. Investors lost loads of money -- in some cases, fortunes -- and ordinary taxpayers are now finding themselves funding an industry bailout that could cost a staggering US$700 billion, perhaps even more.
Just call the researchers at the Los Alamos National Laboratory's Advanced Computing Laboratory "blade runners." That's because the New Mexico-based facility has replaced its conventional parallel cluster supercomputer with blade servers, compact card-based devices that promise to replace standalone servers.
For Los Alamos, blades offer a less costly and more reliable way of handling massive, parallel processing-based computations, such as simulations of galaxy formations and supernova explosions. "In general, it's a more efficient solution with respect to space and energy consumption," says Wu-chun Feng, leader of the laboratory's Research and Development in Advanced Network Technology (Radiant) team.
As far as inventions go, a glass battery sounds about as promising as a concrete basketball or an oatmeal telephone. But Roy Baldwin claims that his unique power source could someday energize everything from mobile phones to automobiles.
Baldwin's battery is based on Dynaglass, an inorganic polymer that's allegedly stronger than steel, yet flexible enough to wrap food. Baldwin, a retired mechanical engineer, says Dynaglass was developed in the mid-1990s, but some of the technology is based on research by the Soviet military and space programs. He learned about the material while helping a friend ship medical supplies to Russia. "Later on, we discovered that the material could be used to store energy," says Baldwin, who then formed a company Columbus, Ohio-based Dynelec to explore the technology's potential.