Currently, the HPC community is actively working towards the development of next-generation HPC systems capable of delivering ExaFLOP performance. While these new HPC architectures open exciting opportunities to the computational scientific community, they also pose numerous challenges.
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Matthew Dovey, head of e-infrastructure (strategy) at Jisc, and member of the EOSC governance board gives his thoughts on the importance of cloud computing and improving digital infrastructure
When designing a component or system, where do you start? In days gone by, designers would literally go back to the drawing board, using their experience and expertise to develop a new concept.
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16 September 2020
Quantum computing project leaders are being encouraged to submit research for chance to win €10,000 as part of a new competition launched by Atos, and the UK Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) Hartree Centre
16 September 2020
Altair has announced the acquisition of Univa, a company the specialises in workload management, scheduling, and optimisation solutions for HPC and artificial intelligence (AI) on-premises and in the cloud
14 September 2020
Nvidia has recently announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to purchase UK-based chip maker Arm in a transaction valued at $40 billion
Analysis & opinion
26 August 2020
Darren Barrington-Light, senior product marketing manager, eCDS, Thermo Fisher Scientific discusses the importance of cloud-based data management for effective collaboration and operational efficiency.
09 July 2020
Matthew Dovey, head of e-infrastructure (strategy) at Jisc, and member of the EOSC governance board gives his thoughts on the importance of cloud computing and improving digital infrastructure
03 July 2020
Ian Smith, of Cambridge’s Royal Papworth Hospital, discusses the use of big data for research into the behaviour of patients suffering from sleep problems
Features
29 July 2020
Sophia Ktori explores software that is used to develop and improve the efficacy of potential drugs used to fight COVID-19
29 July 2020
Response to COVID-19 is helping to develop testing technology that will have far-reaching benefits beyond the global viral outbreak, finds Robert Roe
26 June 2020
Sophia Ktori discusses the combination of drug discovery and cloud computing to rapidly select new candidate molecules in the fight against COVID-19 with researchers Christoph Gorgulla and Haribabu Arthanari
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Press Releases
Immersion cooling specialist Asperitas announces that Peter Uelen has joined the management team as Chief Commercial Officer.
vScaler, an opensource private cloud technology, has announced the integration of SLURM with GigaIO’s FabreX within its cloud platform, providing elastic scaling of PCI devices and HPC disaggregation.
The FabreX in-memory network supports vScaler’s private cloud appliances for workloads such as deep learning, biotechnology and big data analytics allowing scientists and researchers to make more efficient use of resources like GPUs and FPGAs
Altair has announced a major update to Altair PBS Professional, HPC workload manager
Panasas today released Dynamic Data Acceleration on the new PanFS parallel file system, a proprietary software feature that delivers predictable performance by automatically adapting to the changing and evolving small file and mixed workloads found in today's HPC and AI workloads
Scientists at the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech) in Moscow, Russia have shown that quantum enhanced machine learning can be used on quantum (as opposed to classical) data
Altair has announced a multi-year technical partnership agreement with Ducati Corse, the racing division of the Italian motorcycle manufacturer
Bright Computing, a provider of Linux cluster automation and management software for HPC and machine learning, announced that The Louisiana Optical Network Infrastructure (LONI), an asset owned by the Louisiana Board of Regents, has modernised its do-it-yourself (DIY) high-performance computing (HPC) cluster management infrastructure
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Elsevier and ExactCure recently announced a collaboration to develop and offer to hospitals – without charge – drug-specific exposure models for 20 already approved medicines that are being tested as potential treatments for Covid-19.
With the world’s focus on the COVID-19 pandemic, LIMS providers are working to develop solutions tailored to assist in the testing and management of virus samples.
Researchers at Harvard Medical School (HMS) have released an open source drug discovery platform, VirtualFlow, that harnesses supercomputing power to screen potentially billions of small organic compound structures in parallel, in the hunt for promising new drug molecules.
When designing a component or system, where do you start? In days gone by, designers would literally go back to the drawing board, using their experience and expertise to develop a new concept.
Effective utilisation of computing tools is critical to both AI and HPC research, with recent projects in both fields highlighting the scientific benefit of carefully managing resources.
Advances in computer vision combined with AI computing are helping pathologists to more accurately identify subtypes of cancer - leading to better treatments for patients, explains Dan Ruderman.
