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Optimized, Energy Efficient Prefetcher Hardware Architecture 2018-061

APPLICATIONS: High performance computing, e.g., image processing, climate modeling, physics simulation, gaming, facial recognition Consumer electronics Mobile devices BACKGROUND: Technology improvements in combination with power and clock frequency constraints have propelled greater parallelism in order to continue to accelerate growth in computer performance. … [Read more...] about Optimized, Energy Efficient Prefetcher Hardware Architecture 2018-061

Locating Potential Transformer Failures in the Power Grid 2017-111

APPLICATIONS: Power system maintenance Grid reliability monitoring ADVANTAGES: More effectively addresses signal background noise More accurately locates potential transformer failures ABSTRACT: Researchers at Berkeley Lab have developed a technology to locate the position of partial discharge events in the power grid based on the information from a … [Read more...] about Locating Potential Transformer Failures in the Power Grid 2017-111

Novel Peptide Capable of Stimulating Disease Resistance in Plants 2016-030

APPLICATIONS: Biofuel feedstocks Agriculture ADVANTAGES: Synthetic polypeptide Enhanced disease resistance Robust immune response Target plants can be engineered to constitutively express the receptor and inducibly express the peptide ABSTRACT: Pamela Ronald and researchers at Berkeley Lab's Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) have discovered raxX, a … [Read more...] about Novel Peptide Capable of Stimulating Disease Resistance in Plants 2016-030

Synthetic Promoters Useful for Expression in Plant Cells 2015-049

APPLICATIONS OF TECHNOLOGY: Bioenergy feedstock plants ABSTRACT: Researchers at Berkeley Lab's Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) have invented a genetically modified plant cell or plant, comprising: (a) (i) one or more nucleic acids each encoding one or more transcription factors (or transcription activators) operatively linked to a first tissue-specific or … [Read more...] about Synthetic Promoters Useful for Expression in Plant Cells 2015-049