October/November 2009

DATA ANALYSIS: OCEANS

Down by the sea

Felix Grant fishes for data analysis applications among the mysteries of the deep

DATA MANAGEMENT: PETROCHEMICALS

Fuelling the future

Greg Blackman looks at how data management software is used in the petrochemical industry

DESKTOP HPC

Computers are continuing along their astounding path down the price/performance curve to the point where you can literally put the power of what we not long ago considered a supercomputer on or beside your desk in an office environment. Paul Schreier reviews some of these powerful systems

HPC APPLICATIONS: BIOMEDICAL

Saving lives with supercomputers

Stephen Mounsey looks at how HPC is transforming biology and medicine

MODELLING: AEROSPACE

Aerospace modelling is taking off

Aircraft are enormously sophisticated systems – and expensive, as well, so effective prototyping becomes a matter of survival. Paul Schreier investigates how CFD and other engineering software tools have become indispensable in optimising aircraft and for developing completely new concepts

INSIDE VIEW

The enterprise-level data delivery challenge

Dave Champagne, vice president and general manager of informatics at Thermo Fisher Scientific, on the task of interpreting laboratory data at enterprise level