April/May 2007
From lab to enterprise
Tom Wilkie explores how laboratory data management applications are integrating more and more with software outside the lab, including enterprise resource planning software, thereby feeding into overall business management
The virtual approach to hardware and software
Separating the software from the hardware components can boost the speed and flexibility of instrumentation, discovers Sian Harris
Parallel power reaches new heights
David Robson investigates the explosion in parallel computing, as software enables scientists to harness power more easily
Image is everything
Felix Grant and Ray Girvan on the wealth of applications for image analysis software
A breakthrough in fractures
Peter Gumbsch, professor at the university of Karlsruhe and head of Fraunhofer Institute for Mechanics of Materials

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