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
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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.
News
10 August 2020
During the International Conference on High-Energy Physics (ICHEP 2020), the ATLAS collaboration presented results which demonstrate a new way of using the LHC, namely as a high-energy photon collider directly probing electroweak interactions
04 August 2020
Atos has signed a four-year contract worth £5 million with the University of Oxford to deliver a new deep learning supercomputer built on the NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD architecture
30 July 2020
Intel has developed a new machine programming system developed in conjunction with Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Georgia Institute of Technology
Analysis & opinion
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
10 June 2020
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.
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
Resources
11 August 2020
Press Releases
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
The latest version of the Purity 6.0 for FlashArray includes active disaster recovery built on new continuous replication technology to ensure the availability of critical data. Purity for FlashArray Is Pure Storage’ flagship suite of software for its storage-as-a-service platform
AMD has announced that 2nd Gen AMD EPYC processor powered Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) C5a instances are now available in the US Europe and Asia Pacific regions
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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.
