There is mounting pressure for companies to ensure that non-essential personnel work from home. The challenge, of course, is to operate in a virtual capacity without sacrificing productivity – in particular for biotech companies engaging in drug discovery where timely access to data can make or break an organization.
The failure of a candidate drug can cost millions – so many chemists are turning to software that provides modelling capabilities and multi-parameter optimisation
Robert Roe looks back over the year at technology and processes driving trends in the laboratory
Sophia Ktori reveals the informatics company’s history – and plans for the future
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As the number of applications and potential user groups for HPC continues to expand supporting domain expert scientists use and access of HPC resources is increasingly important
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Determining the best approach to a digital transformation effort can be a confusing and complex task for most organisations, suggests Dave Dorsett, principal software architect at information technology consultancy, Astrix
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The confluence of data, compute power and advances in the design of algorithms for AI (artificial intelligence) and ML (machine learning) are driving new approaches in the laboratory
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Fugaku is the fastest supercomputer in the world as of 2021, developed with both performance and generality in mind with the ‘applications first’ philosophy.
Robert Roe takes a look at the cloud technologies available to researchers using HPC
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Robert Roe takes a look at the server options that are available to scientists using HPC as a tool for research high performance computing
