Struggling to turn scientific computing power into real research results?
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HPC Breakthroughs is a year-round series of expert interviews and events that shows how it’s done. Across key areas of scientific computing, the thought leaders driving innovation share their experience and the case studies behind it, so you can see how technical benefits become tangible results in practice.
Whether you’re evaluating new technology, solving a performance bottleneck or planning your team’s computing strategy, Breakthroughs gives you practical insight from the people already doing it.
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HPC Breakthroughs long reads
The storage gap: why scientific data is outgrowing the systems built to hold it
Detectors are getting faster, telescopes are getting bigger and AI has bought up the world's hard drives. Experts from NASA and STFC explain what happens when science generates more data than anyone can afford to store
What 11 supercomputers reveal about AI water consumption
A landmark study by the Energy Efficient HPC Working Group examines how cooling architecture, rather than location, drives water usage across top supercomputing sites
Is FP64 dead? Why high-performance computing still needs double precision
As GPU architectures sprint toward FP4 for AI, scientific computing remains bound to native FP64 double precision
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