IDG News Service - The Top500 is no longer the only ranking game in town: make way for the Graph 500, which tracks how well supercomputers handle big-data-styled workloads. So while a new Cray supercomputer took first place on theTop500, ...
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WASHINGTON --- The U.S. International Trade Commission has determined that there is enough evidence to continue antidumping and countervailing duty investigations against Chinese manufacturers of hardwood plywood. All six ITC ...
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In a meeting on November 5, 2012, the Supervisory Board of Pfeiffer Vacuum Technology AG appointed Nathalie Benedikt (36 years old) as an additional member of the Management Board with effect from January 1, 2013. Nathalie Benedikt will ...
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The European Union launched an investigation on Thursday into alleged state subsidies for Chinese solar panel manufacturers, intensifying a trade war between the two centered on the multi-billion dollar solar power market. The EU's ...
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After leaving--or losing--his job at Microsoft.Steven Sinofsky will probably not be standing in an unemployment line. The 23-year veteran of Microsoft,and until Monday,its top Windows executive,has nearly 650,000 shares of company ...
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Where OEM machine building applications require ultra-compact pumps to provide highly accurate, smooth and pulse-free flows for dispensing and metering duties, MZR pumps from HNP Mikrosysteme are the ideal solution. Available from pumping ...
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For its next generation of supercomputers,Cray has focused on radically improving the I/O(input/output)of individual nodes.The new XC30 supercomputer will feature a new interconnect,called Aries,and a new routing topology that together ...
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Ahmedabad, India-based JH-Welltec Machines India Pvt. Ltd. is setting up its own production facility in India. Currently, the Indo-Chinese injection molding joint venture is operating from a leased site. The company expects to acquire a ...
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The Jakarta Post reported that low average selling price of steel resulting from an oversupply in the domestic market hit earnings of the country's major steel producers in the first nine months of this year. Mr Edward Pinem executive ...
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An NHS mandate–the first ever–has committed the National Health Service to put all medical records online by March 2015.The mandate also extends to booking GP appointments and ordering repeat prescriptions. In a 28-page ...
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Seventeen US plywood importers, distributors and users formed the American Alliance for Hardwood Plywood (AAHP) at the start of October. This move came in reaction to a preliminary investigation launched by the US Department of ...
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The Netherlands - A QSC KLA Series Active Line Array Loudspeaker System, supplied by the QSC distributor in The Netherlands, AED, heads the PA system in a new 'green' congress centre recently built here. In the centre of the Dutch ...
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Downtown-based PPG Industries is sitting on about $2 billion in cash as it goes into the fourth quarter, which is usually a cash-generating quarter, said Chairman and CEO Charles Bunch, and how the coatings and specialty materials company ...
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In addition to modern sportswear, the market is increasingly demanding functional undergarments for the fashion and business sectors. However, for this application textiles with special properties are required which clearly differentiate ...
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Bulten Fasteners China has prevailed in an antidumping investigation before the European Commission, resulting in a complete removal of the additional duties that had previously struck the company. A new EU Regulation of 10 October 2012 ...
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