High-performance computing can help pharmaceutical companies cut the time they spend on research and development, but as Richard Holland of the Pistoia Alliance points out, HPC is not a panacea and its deployment needs to be nuanced and appropriate
Analysis & opinion
11 November 2015
Perversely, academic research penalises expert software developers for providing the tools on which the research relies. Time for a change, says Simon Hettrick of the Software Sustainability Institute.
28 October 2015
Research projects and centres of excellence are to be funded by the European Commission as part of its strategy to coordinate European HPC efforts, Tom Wilkie reports
09 October 2015
Big data and cloud computing are thriving in commerce and business, but scientific and engineering applications appear to be lagging behind. Tom Wilkie reports from the ISC Cloud and Big Data conference
08 September 2015
Tilo Wettig describes the unusual design of a supercomputer dedicated to solving some of the most arcane issues in quantum physics
13 August 2015
Robert Roe explores the efforts made by top HPC centres to scale software codes to the extreme levels necessary for exascale computing
28 July 2015
In her final article on the challenges facing long-established informatics software vendors, Gloria Metrick considers their expansion into new markets but concludes that, as ever, the customers needs are the driving force
27 July 2015
Supercomputers deliver only a few percent of their theoretical peak performance so people should reset their expectations of exascale, Tom Wilkie heard at ISC High Performance earlier this month
26 July 2015
Tom Wilkie reports on two US initiatives for future supercomputers, announced at the ISC in Frankfurt earlier this month
24 July 2015
The challenge of opening up high-performance computing to smaller companies, and some national solutions to the problem were discussed at ISC High-Performance in Frankfurt last week. Tom Wilkie discovered that commercial, cloud-based solutions for small companies were also on display
23 July 2015
Germany is opening a window on its national HPC provision, in the hope that academic researchers and industrial users will beat a path to its door, as Tom Wilkie discovered at ISC High Performance in Frankfurt last week
23 July 2015
By differentiating their technologies to fit data-intensive workloads in HPC, smaller processor companies are giving IBM and Intel a run for their money. Robert Roe examines some of the technologies on display at the ISC High Performance event in Frankfurt last week
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