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MSU researchers developed a process to create more resilient circuitry, which they demonstrated by creating a silver Spartan helmet. The circuit was designed by Jane Manfredi, an assistant professor in the College of Veterinary Medicine. Credit: Acta Materialia Inc./Elsevier
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Tomorrow s cutting-edge technology will need electronics that can tolerate extreme conditions. That s why a group of researchers led by Michigan State University s Jason Nicholas is building stronger circuits today.
A silver lining for extreme electronics
East Lansing, MI | Posted on April 30th, 2021
Nicholas and his team have developed more heat resilient silver circuitry with an assist from nickel. The team described the work, which was funded by the U.S. Department of Energy Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Program, on April 15 in the journal Scripta Materialia.
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When sensors, communication, memory and computation are removed from a group of simple robots, certain sets of complex tasks can still be accomplished by leveraging the robots physical characteristics, a trait that a team of researchers led by Georgia Tech calls task embodiment.
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Shengkai Li, Georgia Tech
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Anyone with children knows that while controlling one child can be hard, controlling many at once can be nearly impossible. Getting swarms of robots to work collectively can be equally challenging, unless researchers carefully choreograph their interactions like planes in formation using increasingly sophisticated components and algorithms. But what can be reliably accomplished when the robots on hand are simple, inconsistent, and lack sophisticated programming for coordinated behavior?
Vladimir Stegailov, HSE University professor
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Vladimir Stegailov
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Researchers from the HSE International Laboratory for Supercomputer Atomistic Modelling and Multi-scale Analysis, JIHT RAS and MIPT have compared the performance of popular molecular modelling programs on GPU accelerators produced by AMD and Nvidia. In a paper published by the International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications, the scholars ported LAMMPS on the new open-source GPU technology, AMD HIP, for the first time.
Open-source GPU technology for supercomputers: Researchers navigate advantages and disadvantages
Moscow, Russia | Posted on April 30th, 2021
The scholars thoroughly analysed the performance of three molecular modelling programs - LAMMPS, Gromacs and OpenMM - on GPU accelerators Nvidia and AMD with comparable peak parameters. For the tests, they used the model of ApoA1 (Apolipoprotein A1) apolipoprotein in blood plasma, the main carrier protein of good cholestero