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UF leads world in reconfigurable supercomputing
February 15, 2011GAINESVILLE, Fla. — University of Florida researchers say their supercomputer, named Novo-G, is the world’s fastest reconfigurable supercomputer and is able to perform some important science applications faster than the Chinese supercomputer touted as the world’s most powerful. In November, the TOP500 list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers, for the first time ever, named […]
Read more »Engineering students’ ‘Chem-E-Car’ places nationally
November 17, 2010The University of Florida AIChE Chem-e-Car Team placed 2nd out of 32 universities in the Distance Competition and won the award for the Most Consistent Performance (best average distance between the two runs). As Cougar rolled to the finish, its creators held their breath. The car, fueled entirely by chemical reactions, had passed the rigorous […]
Read more »Students race robots in “Ben-Hur chariot race” re-enactment
July 30, 2010About 120 incoming freshmen built shoebox-sized robots out of LEGO Mindstorm NXT kits in a summer class on engineering design and programming.
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