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• New anti-laser tech paves way for optical computing

  Yale University scientists have built what they call the first anti-laser, a device that can cancel out beams of light generated by a laser.

• U.S. Energy lab nabs 10-petaflop supercomputer for research

  The <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/us-tries-fire-mighty-offshore-wind-energy-pro">U.S. Department of Energy</a> today said it would use IBM's 10-petaflop Blue Gene supercomputer to help researchers design ultra-efficient electric car batteries, understand <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/slideshows/2010/050410-layer8-energy.html">global climate change</a> and dig up space exploration mysteries.

• MIT: Light speed now a bottleneck in fastest networks

  With global networks carrying complex time-sensitive data, the speed of light is actually becoming a significant source of latency, researchers have found.

• Microsoft new HPC Server adds SETI-like capabilities

  Microsoft today released an updated version of its Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 that can tap into compute resources throughout an enterprise as well as a cloud computing system.