As not only the HPC industry but the larger computing ecosystem tries to overcome the slowdown and eventual end of transistor scaling described by Moore’s Law, scientists and researchers are implementing programmes that will define the technologies and new materials needed to supplement, or repla
Interviews
09 September 2016
Neil Hall, director at the Earlham institute and Dr Tim Stitt, head of scientific computing, explain the Earlham Institutes expanding providing not only a national capability for UK genomics but also providing capabilities for biotechnological and agricultural research.
16 February 2016
Gemma Church talks to data visualisation company Golden Software about three decades in business, Microsoft bugs and working in the geoscience arena
16 February 2016
In her series of profiles of bioinformatics companies, Sophia Ktori looks at the work of biosimulation specialist, Certara
14 January 2016
Gemma Church talks to engineering simulation company Altair about how Computer Aided Engineering has become mainstream
14 January 2016
In her profile of simulation software company Comsol, Gemma Church hears about creating modelling applications to further the reach of multiphysics simulation
14 January 2016
Gemma Church profiles engineering simulation provider Noesis Solutions on how it is transforming designs into benchmark products and getting it right first time
14 January 2016
Sophia Ktori continues her profiles of informatics companies by looking at how BSSN is pioneering data standardisation
09 November 2015
Company profile: Gemma Church talks to engineering software house Esteco about simulations evolving into strategic decisions for companies and creating a social network for engineers
09 November 2015
In her profile of The Edge Software Consultancy, Sophia Ktori discusses how the company is expanding its portfolio to address the challenges of data analytics as well as data management
09 November 2015
Sophia Ktori continues her series profiling informatics companies by looking at how GoInformatics offers software as a service over the cloud
25 August 2015
In the first of a new series of company profiles, Gemma Church investigates how CD-adapco is helping engineers to collaborate and move complex simulations into the design phase
25 August 2015
Maplesoft has expanded beyond symbolic computing to mathematical modelling and simulation, as Gemma Church reports in the second of her series of company profiles
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Architectural specialisation is one option to continue to improve performance beyond the limits imposed by the slow down in Moore’s Law.
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