Unstructured scientific data is one of the biggest strategic risks to the pharmaceutical industry today
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Fugaku is named after an alternative name for Mount Fuji
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Professor Satoshi Matsuoka, director of the RIKEN Center for Computational Science, explains the 10-year process behind the development of the machine
Pawsey Supercomputing Centre
Mark Stickells, executive director at Pawsey Supercomputing Centre, highlights the work done in Australia to deliver supercomputing facilities and the resources needed
News
16 October 2020
Leonardo, unveiled at Italy’s CINECA research centre, uses more than 14,000 Nvidia GPUs to deliver the ‘world’s most powerful AI system’.
The system has been reported by Nvidia to be capable of delivering 10 exaflops of AI performance in some half-precision floating-point (FP16) applications and could deliver around 200 petaflops when benchmarked for the Top500.
07 October 2020
Springer Nature has announced it is one of the founding members of the new OAPEN toolkit for researchers and academic book authors
07 October 2020
A partnership between Sandia National Laboratories and the Boston firm BioBright to improve the security of synthetic biology equipment has become more relevant after the United States and others issued warnings that hackers were using the COVID-19 pandemic to increase their activities.
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Fugaku is named after an alternative name for Mount Fuji
Credit: 名古屋太郎 - 投稿者が撮影
15 October 2020
Professor Satoshi Matsuoka, director of the RIKEN Center for Computational Science, explains the 10-year process behind the development of the machine
Pawsey Supercomputing Centre
15 October 2020
Mark Stickells, executive director at Pawsey Supercomputing Centre, highlights the work done in Australia to deliver supercomputing facilities and the resources needed
15 October 2020
William Thigpen, assistant division chief of HPC operations for NASA’s Advanced Supercomputing Division, discusses the role the facility plays in helping the organisation to meet its goals
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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Super Micro has announced the doubling of GPU capabilities with a new 4U server supporting eight NVIDIA HGX A100 GPUs, massively increasing the potential performance of AI and machine learning workloads.
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
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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.
