Gemma Church explains how quantum computers will transform the world of science and engineering - but only if we can reach the million-qubit scale
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The US Department of Energy announced $61 Million to advance breakthroughs in Quantum Information Science (QIS)
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This week Nvidia introduced Cambridge-1, a $100 million investment that promises to advance healthcare research partnerships across the UK
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13 October 2021
Cambridge Quantum has announced the release of a toolkit and library for Quantum Natural Language Processing (QNLP). The toolkit is called lambeq, named after the late mathematician and linguist Joachim Lambek
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12 October 2021
HCL Technologies (HCL) has expanded its strategic partnership with Google Cloud to launch healthcare and life sciences solutions
12 October 2021
IBM and Raytheon Technologies have announced a collaboration to jointly develop advanced artificial intelligence (AI), cryptographic and quantum solutions for the aerospace, defence and intelligence industries
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02 September 2021
Gemma Church explains how quantum computers will transform the world of science and engineering - but only if we can reach the million-qubit scale
21 July 2021
Phil Gooch looks back at the history of semantic enrichment, and how it will be used going forward
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07 July 2021
This week Nvidia introduced Cambridge-1, a $100 million investment that promises to advance healthcare research partnerships across the UK
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13 September 2021
HPC integrators provide value to scientific and research organisations through management and support of HPC resources, finds Robert Roe
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10 September 2021
Sophia Ktori takes a look at the role software companies play in driving digital transformation in the laboratory
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10 September 2021
Robert Roe finds that the use of AI is driving new areas of research and increasing the competitiveness of early adopters
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BioAscent a provider of integrated drug discovery services, reports a 50 per cent increase in demand from biotech and 'virtual' biotech companies for its outsourced compound management services so far in 2021. This follows a doubling of compound management services from 2018 to 2020 – also primarily driven by biotech customers.
NCI has announced three new independent board members have been appointed to the NCI Advisory Board – professor Melodie McGeoch, Ms Clare McLaughlin, and Dr Rosemarie Sadsad
NCI has announced three new independent board members have been appointed to the NCI Advisory Board – professor Melodie McGeoch, Ms Clare McLaughlin, and Dr Rosemarie Sadsad
Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) has opened it’s new corporate headquarters, the BSC-REPSOL Building
Paradigm4, an integrated scientific data analytics company, has launched flexFS, its elastic cloud file system for flexible and more resource-efficient data storage and scalable computing
Atos today announces that it has been recognised as the overall global leader in Artificial Intelligence on the Edge in ISG’s Provider Lens ‘Internet of Things – Solutions & Services’ Quadrant Report 2021, ranking highest from all global companies evaluated both in terms of Portfolio Attractiveness and Competitive Strength. Atos is also named a global Leader across the other two segments analysed: IoT Endpoint Security, and IT/OT Tech Data Convergence.
The report recognises Atos’ strengths as:
This July, STARLIMS announced the release of Technology Platform V12.2. The new technology platform features a powerful Electronic Lab Notebook (ELN) system using modern HTML5 technologies. It helps maximize lab efficiency and ensure compliance by allowing execution of test workflows without interruption.
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As the number of applications and potential user groups for HPC continues to expand supporting domain expert scientists use and access of HPC resources is increasingly important
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Determining the best approach to a digital transformation effort can be a confusing and complex task for most organisations, suggests Dave Dorsett, principal software architect at information technology consultancy, Astrix
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The confluence of data, compute power and advances in the design of algorithms for AI (artificial intelligence) and ML (machine learning) are driving new approaches in the laboratory
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Fugaku is the fastest supercomputer in the world as of 2021, developed with both performance and generality in mind with the ‘applications first’ philosophy.
Robert Roe takes a look at the cloud technologies available to researchers using HPC
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Robert Roe takes a look at the server options that are available to scientists using HPC as a tool for research high performance computing
