Supercomputers are massive machines that help tackle the toughest scientific problems, including simulating commercial products like new drugs as well as defense-related applications such as weapons design and breaking codes.
The stakes are higher this time: Over the past decade wind component manufacturers have set up shop in the U.S. to make turbines, blades and other parts for the massive machines near where wind farms are being built.
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Nautilus would use massive robotic machines, which are being built in Wallsend, near Newcastle-upon-Tyne, by a firm with long experience of marine engineering, Soil Machine Dynamics.
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Recently he launched his own label Simplyred.com, using the web as a means of marketing his music without the massive publicity machines used by major labels.
Even more fundamentally, the digital economy's infrastructure has advanced basic material science and classes of machine tools that have led directly to the new high-power electronics (enabling hybrids) and to big, cheap flat-panel, thin-film PVs (derived from the massive thin-film machines that make flat-panel-TVs).
Profits are healthy and corporate machines are producing massive amounts of cash.
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"smart" -- gadgets promoted at this massive technology trade show includes washing machines that send text messages and communicate with smartphones, refrigerators that play music from the internet, and kitchen ovens that download recipes and can essentially teach you to cook.
Sam Palmisano, chief executive of International Business Machines, continued to purchase a massive amount of stock in July, August and September.
The entertainment industry didn't exactly welcome VCRs when they first appeared, either, taking Sony (SNE) to the Supreme Court for building machines that facilitated copyright infringement on a massive scale.
The resources of those individual machines will then be pooled to create a massive computing "grid, " a virtual computer that is more powerful than the fastest supercomputers.
Notice how bolts and moving parts and gears start out as smaller, less dominant parts of the machines, but then come to dominate it with massive parts until even the form of the particular machine itself becomes lost amid that sinking into parts that seem to grow larger around us.
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Massive amounts of new data are also being generated by sensors, medical devices and other digitally connected machines.
"Gaming PCs have always been housed in massive towers, but we've seen that more and more consumers are moving towards smaller and more efficient machines, " said Rajeev Kuruppu, Digital Storm's Director of Product Development.
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