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Intel Corporation, imec and 5 Flemish universities officially opened the Flanders ExaScience Lab at the imec research facilities in Leuven, Belgium. The lab will develop software to run on Intel-based future exascale computer systems delivering 1,000 times the performance of today’s fastest supercomputers, using up to 1 million cores and 1 billion processes to do so.

The ExaScience Lab will be the latest member of Intel’s European research network — Intel Labs Europe – that consists of 21 labs employing more than 900 R&D professionals.

Andover, Mass.– Patients with chronic illnesses often require close monitoring, although access to a doctor is not always available. Recognizing this, Royal Philips Electronics (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHI) today announced an agreement with Project HOPE, an international health education and humanitarian assistance organization, to place telemonitoring devices in select homes in rural areas of New Mexico.

HAMILTON, ON and MARKHAM, ON, – 14 May 2010: Embedding a “super” microprocessor from video games into cars will provide drivers with traffic management information McMaster and IBM (IBM) have launched a research project to investigate how the automotive industry can connect a vehicle’s multiple microprocessors, which currently work in isolation, to create a “cognitive car” that can predict vehicle failures before they happen, redirect drivers to less congested routes and help reduce traffic accidents.