Cray's Barry Bolding gives some predictions for the supercomputing industry in 2017
Analysis & opinion
27 October 2016
Lionel Gibbons, vice president of marketing at Bright Computing, explains the role of cluster management software to accelerate HPC
19 September 2016
Wolfgang Gentzsch explains the role of HPC container technology in providing ubiquitous access to HPC
03 August 2016
Mirren White, project dissemination and exploitation officer, EPCC explains how a European project to understand and improve energy efficiency in HPC and embedded computing is creating tools that can be used to design more efficient HPC systems
02 August 2016
Toni Collis explains the motivation for Women in HPC’s partnership with EuroMPI and the initial steps undertaken to examine the role that gender plays within the HPC community
04 July 2016
Arm processors will provide the computational muscle behind one of the most powerful supercomputers in the world, replacing the current K computer at the RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science (AICS) in Japan
30 June 2016
At the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC16) held last week in Frankfurt, Germany, a new Chinese supercomputer - Sunway TaihuLight - took the top spot of the TOP500
19 May 2016
Robert Roe discovers that data integrity, process improvement, and managing data effectively are key challenges for informatics providers finding the speed to innovate, as the theme for the latest Paperless Lab Academy suggested
17 May 2016
Jana Erjavec wonders why researchers are slow to adopt software for electronic laboratory notebooks
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
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