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U-Michigan, IBM collaborate on data-centric high performance computing system

Green Car Congress

The collaboration was announced this week in San Jose at the second annual OpenPOWER Summit 2016. These new products build upon 30 OpenPOWER-based solutions already in the marketplace. The OpenPOWER Foundation , which U-M recently joined, is an open, collaborative, technical community based on IBM’s POWER architecture.

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Is aviation the best application yet for hydrogen fuel cells?

Charged EVs

Charged : You’ve done some pilot programs with battery-electric planes, but your long-term idea is to build fuel cell aircraft, correct? The idea from day one was hydrogen fuel cell-based drivetrains, but it’s hydrogen-electric, so you have to build the electric part. So, that was a progression that we made. It makes a lot of sense.