Jana Erjavec wonders why researchers are slow to adopt software for electronic laboratory notebooks
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11 May 2016
Shailesh M Shenoy, director of the office of research computing, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, discusses the challenges faced by large medical research organisations in the face of ever-growing volumes of data
27 April 2016
Virtus Data Centres managing director, Darren Watkins, explains the importance of building a data centre from the ground up to support the requirements of HPC users - while maximising productivity, efficiency and energy usage
26 April 2016
Robert Roe attends the Nvidia GTC conference and to see the latest in deep learning hardware from Nvidia
14 April 2016
ISC's Nages Sieslack highlights a convergence of technologies around HPC, a focus of the ISC High Performance conference that takes place in June
30 March 2016
Clouds can be flexible but still have to be used efficiently, according to Dr Bruno Silva, who believes that new cloud technologies will make the cloud even more important to scientific computing
22 February 2016
Tom Wilkie reports on two examples how the growth of scientific data sets is driving computing into the cloud, and asks how profoundly this will change computing for science
09 February 2016
Robert Roe reports on a new Exascale computing architecture using ARM processors is being developed by a European consortium of hardware and software providers, research centres, and industry partners, funded by the European Unions Horizon2020 research programme
05 February 2016
Dr Laura Boykin describes how the largest supercomputer in the southern hemisphere can help fight famine among East Africas farmers
15 January 2016
For science to make the software on which it increasingly depends sustainable is a social not a technical challenge, argues Dan Katz
17 December 2015
Already in the top three supercomputer vendors worldwide, Chinese companies have wider ambitions still, as Tom Wilkie reports
17 December 2015
Accelerators have come of age, but at the US supercomputing show in Austin, Texas, Tom Wilkie found a lot of interest in FPGAs as well
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Robert Roe reports on developments in AI that are helping to shape the future of high performance computing technology at the International Supercomputing Conference
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James Reinders is a parallel programming and HPC expert with more than 27 years’ experience working for Intel until his retirement in 2017. In this article Reinders gives his take on the use of roofline estimation as a tool for code optimisation in HPC
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Sophia Ktori concludes her two-part series exploring the use of laboratory informatics software in regulated industries.
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As storage technology adapts to changing HPC workloads, Robert Roe looks at the technologies that could help to enhance performance and accessibility of
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