"Scalability is really the critical issue, " said Robert McCormick, principal engineer at the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Lab in Colorado.

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The IETF approval "tells the world that IPP is to be taken seriously, " says Carl-Uno Manros, chair of the IPP working group and a principal engineer with Xerox.

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"Faced with constraints for energy efficiency and analytic compute capacity to support world-leading geosciences research, we absolutely require technological innovations from leading companies like HP, " said Chris Hill, principal research engineer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and co-chair, Research and Education Subcommittee, Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing.

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Arne Vogler, a senior research engineer and principal investigator at the Hebridean Marine Energy Futures project, said hurricane force gusts had also been recorded.

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