April/May 2014

Jean-Louis Migeot argues that acoustic simulation needs to be an early part of any product design and that software is now available to ensure it can be done easily

High-performance computing is increasingly being used to interpret financial data, explains Robert Roe

John Barr looks at some of the issues surrounding the future of data centres

Reagan W Moore argues that policy-based data-management systems are the next stage in the evolution of large-scale data management

In the second part of our series on computational chemistry, Siân Harris looks at the role of modelling and high-quality data in the pharmaceutical industry

Tom Wilkie finds that this years ISC programme prompts thoughts about the relevance of railways and art 
to high-performance computing

More complex clusters mean more scope for integrators - provided they know what their customers need, as Tom Wilkie discovers

John Trigg sets out the changing demands on laboratories. Only by becoming smart can they respond effectively

The pharmaceutical industry needs new informatics tools if it is to master the age of personalised medicine, Sophia Ktori discovers