Information on Emerging Technologies

Nanotechnology

What does it mean ? Nano (from Greek) means dwarf or small. Nanotechnology is one of the science's branch which the object has size from 1 – 100 nanometer (nm); 1 nm equals to 0.000000001 m. Quantum mechanics has a big role in this technology. The first time the concept of nanotechnology was introduced by Richard Feynman in a scientific speech held by the American Physical Society at Caltech (California Institute of Technology), December 29, 1959. with the title "There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom". Richard Feynman was a physicist and in 1965 won the Nobel Prize in physics.

Grid Computing

According to Giga Research, grid computing is the computer cluster systems, which are connected to one another, which allows the use of existing resources simultaneously. Meanwhile, according to Sun Microsystems grid computing shortened to 3 C, namely Computing, Collaboration, and Communication. From this understanding, we can assess that grid computing is an amazing thing. for many different applications and hardware that can be easily configured without disturbing a running system. Combining multiple geographically separate computers, but still connected communication system with the Internet.

Quantum Computing

What is a quantum computing ???? Simple understanding of the quantum computer is a new type of processor chips are created based on recent developments of physics (and mathematics) quantum. In short, today's conventional chips need to be replaced with something better.

Further understanding of the quantum computer is a calculating device which uses a quantum mechanical phenomena, such as superposition and linkage, to perform data operations. In classical computing, is calculated by the amount of data bits; in quantum computers, this is done with the qubit. If say, a quantum computer only took 20 minutes to work on a process that takes 1025 years on the computer at this time, we would be amazed. This makes scientists so keen to develop the possibility of formation of a quantum computer. Although until now there has been created a quantum computer as imagined by scientists, progress continues in that direction