Since then several teams have been trying to make colder antihydrogen and to hold on to it using clever configurations of electrical and magnetic fields.

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Dual storage configurations using an SSD and a hard disk drive are becoming common in computers.

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For example, Schooner Information Technology has software for database acceleration that makes databases run 8 times faster than typical configurations by using boatloads of flash memory on commodity hardware.

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Scientists have tried to deal with the problem by using enormous computing power to sift systematically through billions of possible configurations.

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Hillcrest's patented motion control software platform provides a sensor-agnostic solution for motion control devices using accelerometers, gyroscopes and magnetometers (compasses) in a variety of configurations.

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