Condor

Children's National Medical Center Opens New Operating Rooms, Waiting Area

...t in the region, with a team of pediatric surgeons specializing in complex spine issues. The other OR will be used by general surgery and uses the condor System™, which optimizes the quality of images used in laparoscopic surgery. The ORs are equipped to display images of the surgical field alongs...

Lead shot and sinkers: Weighty implications for fish and wildlife health

...eason, on July 1, 2008, the state of California put restrictions on the use of lead ammunition in parts of the range of the endangered California condor because the element poses such a threat to this endangered species." Lead poisoning causes behavioral, physiological, and biochemical effects, and oft...

New technique takes a big step in examination of small structures

...ice of Information Technology, or ItaP, Jiang said. Jiang used Purdue's condor program - which links computers including desktop machines and large, power...e supercomputer scale that was necessary for this work," he said. "Purdue's condor program allowed us to take advantage of the power of 7,000 computers. This ...

WorldHeart Appoints David Pellone Chief Financial Officer

...s. He has extensive experience as Vice President of Finance and Chief Financial Officer with a number of companies. His prior work experience includes condor Power Supplies Incorporated, Flash Electronics Incorporated, RAE Systems Incorporated, AG Associates, Incorporated and the Medical Products and Servic...

Sleeping Computers Yield Clues About Genetic Disorders

...rs ago by Technion Computer Science Professor Dan Geiger and Dr. Ma’ayan Fishelson (at that time Geiger’s doctoral student). Now, with the help of the condor middleware system, Superlink-Online is running in parallel on 200 computers at the Technion and 3,000 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The syst...

Condor in Biological News

e-Science points to pollution solutions

...ch they can attach, so hundreds of serious calculations are necessary. The project has developed a grid infrastructure consisting of clusters and condor pools (including campus grids) at the collaborating institutions and resources held on the National Grid Service and the North West Grid. High perform...

Seal rookeries could provide a reliable food source for endangered California condors, study finds

...ts by the United States government to restore wild condor populations could be enhanced if captive-bred bird...ng a nine-and-a-half-foot wingspan, the California condor (Gymnogyps californianus) is the largest bird in N...t of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service California condor Recovery Program--a federally supported effort is ...

Condor in Biological Technology

UW Condor project is a piece of CERN's massive grid computer

The University of Wisconsin's Condor software project will provide a component of a cutting-edge grid computing system at European research heavyweight CERN , the IDG news service reports. CERN has a computing network with more than 100 sites in 31 countries, the center said. Among them it is...

ChemImage Works to Improve Existing Methods of Imaging Untreated Fingerprints on Paper Substrates

...teworthy step forward in the science of latent print examination." The condor Hyperspectral Imaging System utilizes liquid crystal imaging technology, wh...n dark substrates or substrates with complex backgrounds. "While our condor Hyperspectral Imaging System can be used to compliment many processing tech...

UW computer scientists tout achievements and explain industry shortcomings

...science professor at UW-Madison who works with the condor distributed computing project. condor , an architecture designed to deliver consisted pr...us users has also been steadliy increasing. The condor project incorporates about 2000 servers on the UW-...

Wisconsin introduces new state IT plan

...mputing initiatives, started in the 1980s, is the condor project . Landweber said condor was developed by faculty and students at UW-Madiso... grid projects in the world today are based on the condor platform, Landweber said. Nationally, grid comp...

UW links with Israeli school to locate genes

...rican Journal of Human Genetics , operates on the condor high-throughput computing program developed at UW...le computers that are hooked up to the system. The condor system manages these computers, making sure they w...m to increase its speed, which led the team to the condor project. Opportunistic computers Miron Liv...