ArcherDX, a molecular technology company dedicated to developing breakthrough solutions that advance the application of personalised genomic medicine has announced that it has entered into a broad strategic collaboration with Genosity
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High performance computing is a field in which engineers often require knowledge of many different areas. An HPC developer must implement a solution to a problem which comes from ‘real’ science, but they also need to understand computer hardware and software.
With new and old companies releasing processors for the HPC market, there are now several options for high-performance server-based CPUs. This is being compounded by setbacks and delays at Intel opening up competition for the HPC CPU market.
News
12 September 2019
Shimmer Research, a developer of wearable technology for research applications, has announced the launch of a healthcare industry open source initiative for wearable sensor algorithms
11 September 2019
PRACE has announced thaty following the 9th Call for applications to SHAPE, five more SMEs will be able to start working with PRACE to gain access to HPC expertise and resources, expand their HPC experience and ultimately enhance their business
05 September 2019
The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at The University of Texas at Austin has announced the launch of Frontera, funded by a $60 million award from the National Science Foundation (NSF)
Analysis & opinion
12 June 2019
Jan Rowell looks at the growing use of digital twins which is being driven by the use of HPC and IOT
01 February 2019
Ross Upton, CEO and academic co-founder at Ultromics, discusses the potential to implement AI in clinical diagnostics
23 August 2018
Fujitsu announces specifications for CPU contained in the post-K computer, a machine designed to be 100 times faster than the previous system
Features
14 June 2019
Simulation and modelling increasingly expedite widespread change across the automotive industry, writes Gemma Church
14 June 2019
Cloud-based informatics software is growing fast thanks to highly flexible and customisable deployment methods, writes Sophia Ktori
14 June 2019
John Harman, senior product manager, Thermo Fisher Scientific explains how implementing a cloud informatics platform can help scientists make better use of pharmaceutical data
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Spectra Logic, a provider of data storage and data management solutions, has introduced StorCycle, a new storage management software solution designed for data-driven organisations that need a modern storage lifecycle management workflow
FLUIDON GmbH, a provider of simulation and analysis of fluid power and mechatronic systems, has announced the release of the new version 3.10 of its simulation environment DSHplus. Starting today, DSHplus users with a valid maintenance contract will automatically receive new license keys. The new version will also be available for download on the FLUIDON web page.
New fluid property handling in DSHplus 3.10
Microway, a leading provider of fully integrated and validated computational clusters, servers, and workstations for AI and HPC, announces the appointment of Lorne Wilson as Chief Operating Officer
ThinkParQ, the company behind the award-winning parallel file system BeeGFS, announces its global partnership with NetApp
GRC (Green Revolution Cooling), a provider of single-phase immersion cooling for data centres, has announced its joint project with Nvidia to help power a GPU-intensive computing subsystem for the Texas Advanced Computing Center’s (TACC) Frontera Supercomputer
The WIRB-Copernicus Group’s (WCG) Clinical Services Division introduces Velos eResearch eXpress, an out-of-the-box, cloud-based solution that enables clinical research sites to centralize and manage their research activities on a single, automated technology platform
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The automotive sector is undergoing a period of rapid and disruptive transformation from both a business and technical standpoint.
Estimates suggest that the global laboratory informatics market, valued at $2.6 billion in 2019, will witness CAGR of 7.5 per cent over the next five years, reaching $3.8 billion in 2024[1].
Modern drug discovery and development workflows incorporate a growing range of automated, high-throughput technologies that can generate data on a truly impressive scale.
‘This will be the life sciences century … because of personalised medicine, information technology, and knowledge on biological systems,’ said Fred Hassan, a partner of Warburg Pincus and former CEO of Schering-Plough.
With data rates increasing and more complex challenges arising in life sciences, Panasas’ Jim Donovan and Dale Brantly discuss the benefits of using HPC for these workloads
As the complexity of both HPC hardware and the challenges that scientists are trying to solve using HPC systems increases, ensuring a system is utilised efficiently is necessary to deliver a computing service with value for money and a high research output.
Architectural specialisation is one option to continue to improve performance beyond the limits imposed by the slow down in Moore’s Law.
As not only the HPC industry but the larger computing ecosystem tries to overcome the slowdown and eventual end of transistor scaling described by Moore’s Law, scientists and researchers are implementing programmes that will define the technologies and new materials needed to supplement, or repla
