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Datacenters house server farms that perform many different jobs ranging from search engines to supercomputing. In aggregate these computer systems already consume enormous power, and their energy requirements are increasing both in absolute terms and in proportion to the total capacity of the United States electrical grid. With higher power consumption has come greater difficulty in keeping these ...

The United States and several other countries are investing in new neutron scattering facilities as well as upgrading existing ones due to their promise for fundamental and applied research that can catalyze advances in energy, telecommunications, manufacturing, plastics, transportation, biotechnology, and health. The performance of one new type of instrument, the wide-angle polarized neutron spec ...

"SSSC is pleased to propose the development and delivery of a Hostile Fire Indication Sensor (HFIS) based on the Phase I design concept. The resulting system will limit the number of circuit card assemblies to two: one for the short wave infrared (SWIR)

72808-The conversion of cellulosic biomass to commodity products via biological processing could benefit society by improving energy security, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and promoting rural economies. However, commercial application is impeded by the current absence of low-cost technology to overcome the recalcitrance of cellulosic biomass. This project will develop a strain of Clostridi ...

73089-DOE Office of Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation (NA) applications, especially in the area of software radio, drive wide bandwidths and therefore require high-density super-computing-class I/O, memory, and signal processing capabilities. General-purpose processors do not provide enough performance density to effectively address these applications. The introduction of super-computing boards b ...

75655-The photovoltaics industry has found that traditional sources of secondary grade polysilicon are no longer readily available at inexpensive prices, and prices are getting significantly higher. Reducing the cost of the silicon wafers is the key to lowering the price of crystalline silicon solar cells to competitive levels. This project will develop a single-step wafer fabrication process in ...

Our goal is to develop a single device or modular group of devices weighing less than three pounds that can provide all of the functionality required for individual dismounted special forces for surveillance, small arms fire control, and tactical network connectivity. This challenge requires expertise not only in each of the individual modules for day sights, night vision, range finding, GPS, com ...

76166-Although permeable reactive barriers are an important new treatment option for groundwater remediation, no reliable methods are available to monitor or predict their long-term behavior. The large-scale implementation of reactive barriers will require a means of monitoring their long-term degradation. For example, gaps can occur in the placement of the reactive material, particularly when c ...

75605-The United States Department of Energy has estimated that from the 1940s through the 1970s, 126,000 cubic meters of transuranic wastes were disposed of by shallow burial and other techniques at sites owned and operated by the federal government. The excavation and retrieval of the transuranic and mixed waste are time-consuming and expensive. Improved imaging technologies are needed to prov ...

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