Analysis & opinion

HEC hits the UK
23 February 2007

Due to launch this autumn, the HECToR (High End Computing Terascale Resources) will provide academic users across the UK with previously unheard of processing power.

ERP competition heating up
06 February 2007

A new study from IT market intelligence service IDC has revealed that competition is heating up among vendors of enterprise resource planning (ERP) software in Western Europe.

New computational research centre in France
17 January 2007

Microsoft Research and INRIA, the French National Institute for Research in Computer Science, have opened the Microsoft Research - INRIA Joint Centre in Orsay, France.

Centre for Integrative Systems Biology appoints new director
18 December 2006

Professor Jaroslav Stark from Imperial College London's Department of Mathematics has been appointed the new director of the interdisciplinary Centre for Integrative Systems Biology at Imperial College (CISBIC).

The advent of desktop supercomputing
28 November 2006

November has seen an increased interest in high-performance computing, with the Supercomputing 2006 conference, and The Mathworks and Interactive Supercomputing both upgrading their parallel computing software.

Thermo expands presence in the Middle East
03 November 2006

Thermo Electron Corporation has established a new local customer support centre for its informatics software and services in Dammam, in the Eastern province of Saudi Arabia this September.

Workflow language helps predict climate change
25 October 2006

Daniel Goodman won a best paper award at the UK e-Science All Hands Meeting for devising a workflow language, Martlet, that will be used to aid climage change prediction.

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