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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16 September 2021
The University of Birmingham has upgraded its datacentre with a new supercomputer from Lenovo which is enhancing the universities research capabilities. This new High Performance Computing (HPC) resource has enabled scientists at the University of Birmingham to complete new research projects in computer vision, genome sequencing, and materials science.
15 September 2021
Cresset Discovery Services, a provider of contract research services for early phase drug discovery, has announced it will collaborate with the University of Newcastle, Australia to focus on drug reprofiling against oncology targets
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15 September 2021
The European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) has opened new offices in Bonn, Germany and a new data centre in Bologna, Italy to support the expansion of its compute capacity
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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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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.
Digital Science has announced a new version of its Dimensions platform - Dimensions Life Sciences & Chemistry - focused on life sciences and chemistry research activities
CoolIT Systems has announced that on August 19, 2021, under 35 U.S.C. § 318, the US Patent and Trademark Office's Patent Trial and Appeal Board (“PTAB”) issued two Final Written Decisions determining that all challenged claims of US Patent Nos. 10,078,354 (the “’354 patent”) and 10,078,355 (the “’355 patent”), under which Asetek Danmark A/S (“Asetek”) has sued CoolIT for alleged infringement, are unpatentable.
Dotmatics, a provider of a cloud-first platform for scientific research, has announced it has appointed Michael Swartz to lead its enterprise product strategy and management functions
Dotmatics, a scientific informatics software and services company that aims to drive automation of laboratory data workflows has announced it has been selected by Croda to implement its Research and Development (R&D) digital program
Waters has announced its second-quarter 2021 sales of $682 million, a 31 per cent increase as reported, compared to sales of $520 million for the second quarter of 2020. Foreign currency translation benefited sales growth by approximately 4 per cent for the quarter.
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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
