A leading resource for scientists, researchers and technicians all over the globe who rely upon computing to help them with their work. http://www.scientific-computing.com/ Copyright Europa Science Biobanks have their own unique requirements in terms of data management and, with increasing amounts of molecular data being generated around biobank samples, sophisticated informatics solutions are essential, as Greg Blackman finds out http://www.scientific-computing.com/features/feature.php?feature_id=270 http://www.scientific-computing.com/features/feature.php?feature_id=270 Mon, 12 Apr 2010 00:00:00 +0100 Felix Grant on the application of statistical packages to materials science http://www.scientific-computing.com/features/feature.php?feature_id=271 http://www.scientific-computing.com/features/feature.php?feature_id=271 Mon, 12 Apr 2010 00:00:00 +0100 Especially with the advent of cloud computing, virtualisation and the increasing popularity of GPUs, what a physical computing system looks like is very fluid. Paul Schreier looks into how vendors of cluster management software address the provisioning and workload management needs resulting from this major trend http://www.scientific-computing.com/features/feature.php?feature_id=272 http://www.scientific-computing.com/features/feature.php?feature_id=272 Mon, 12 Apr 2010 00:00:00 +0100 Visualisation is a vital component of many HPC applications, but rendering huge datasets is no easy task, as Stephen Mounsey discovers http://www.scientific-computing.com/features/feature.php?feature_id=273 http://www.scientific-computing.com/features/feature.php?feature_id=273 Mon, 12 Apr 2010 00:00:00 +0100 Lee Ward, principal member of technical staff at Sandia National Laboratories, tackles HPC-related IO improvements to multiple supercomputing projects http://www.scientific-computing.com/features/feature.php?feature_id=274 http://www.scientific-computing.com/features/feature.php?feature_id=274 Mon, 12 Apr 2010 00:00:00 +0100 While popular services such as Google Earth and Bing Maps have made basic geographical information system functionality well-known, scientific investigations need considerably more power. Paul Schreier maps the highlights of the GIS product landscape http://www.scientific-computing.com/features/feature.php?feature_id=275 http://www.scientific-computing.com/features/feature.php?feature_id=275 Mon, 12 Apr 2010 00:00:00 +0100 Frank Brown, chief science officer at Accelrys, believes the best research emerges from collaboration http://www.scientific-computing.com/features/feature.php?feature_id=276 http://www.scientific-computing.com/features/feature.php?feature_id=276 Mon, 12 Apr 2010 00:00:00 +0100 Science and scientific computing can buy us time to cope with the demographic timebomb of population growth, says Felix Grant http://www.scientific-computing.com/features/feature.php?feature_id=263 http://www.scientific-computing.com/features/feature.php?feature_id=263 Wed, 17 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0000 Contract laboratories must constantly adapt to meet the requirements of their clients and employ flexible data management solutions to do so, as Greg Blackman finds out http://www.scientific-computing.com/features/feature.php?feature_id=264 http://www.scientific-computing.com/features/feature.php?feature_id=264 Wed, 17 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0000 General-purpose graphical processing units (GPGPUs) have been making inroads into HPC applications, but with the release of chips optimised for scientific computations rather than just graphics processing, this branch is poised to make major market inroads. Paul Schreier examines what's behind this upcoming jump in performance, and its implications http://www.scientific-computing.com/features/feature.php?feature_id=265 http://www.scientific-computing.com/features/feature.php?feature_id=265 Wed, 17 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0000 Stephen Mounsey discovers how high performance computing contributes to atmospheric science and improves the accuracy of weather forecasts http://www.scientific-computing.com/features/feature.php?feature_id=266 http://www.scientific-computing.com/features/feature.php?feature_id=266 Wed, 17 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0000 Arthur 'Buddy' Bland, project director for the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, describes the rise from terascale to petascale computing and the road to exascale http://www.scientific-computing.com/features/feature.php?feature_id=267 http://www.scientific-computing.com/features/feature.php?feature_id=267 Wed, 17 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0000 With wireless capabilities being built into an enormous variety of products and gadgets, the challenges facing antenna designers are greater than ever. Paul Schreier examines how modelling software has improved to aid them along every step of the development and implementation trail http://www.scientific-computing.com/features/feature.php?feature_id=268 http://www.scientific-computing.com/features/feature.php?feature_id=268 Wed, 17 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0000 Cleve Moler, co-founder of The MathWorks, believes the benefits of parallel computing should be open to all scientists and engineers, regardless of their expertise as computer programmers http://www.scientific-computing.com/features/feature.php?feature_id=269 http://www.scientific-computing.com/features/feature.php?feature_id=269 Wed, 17 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0000 Felix Grant assesses the applications of data analysis software in the energy sector http://www.scientific-computing.com/features/feature.php?feature_id=257 http://www.scientific-computing.com/features/feature.php?feature_id=257 Tue, 15 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +0000