Follow the money
20 March 2008
Felix Grant remains intrigued with financial modelling
The automotive sector is undergoing a period of rapid and disruptive transformation from both a business and technical standpoint.
February / March 2008
Beyond the skies
20 March 2008
Felix Grant looks to the heavens and sees scientific software shining bright
In profile: Chemical Abstracts Service
20 March 2008
With its family of services for research scientists and information professionals, CAS aims to provide the best digital environment to search, retrieve, analyse and link chemical information.
Sun, Spain and supercomputing
20 March 2008
Theres more to this 19th century chapel than meets the eye, as David Robson discovers
Analysis beyond the transcriptome
20 March 2008
Data management in the field of microarrays is all about statistical rigour, as Clare Sansom discovers
Living the vision
20 March 2008
Professor Kathy Yelick, director, National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
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Estimates suggest that the global laboratory informatics market, valued at $2.6 billion in 2019, will witness CAGR of 7.5 per cent over the next five years, reaching $3.8 billion in 2024[1].
Modern drug discovery and development workflows incorporate a growing range of automated, high-throughput technologies that can generate data on a truly impressive scale.
‘This will be the life sciences century … because of personalised medicine, information technology, and knowledge on biological systems,’ said Fred Hassan, a partner of Warburg Pincus and former CEO of Schering-Plough.
With data rates increasing and more complex challenges arising in life sciences, Panasas’ Jim Donovan and Dale Brantly discuss the benefits of using HPC for these workloads
As the complexity of both HPC hardware and the challenges that scientists are trying to solve using HPC systems increases, ensuring a system is utilised efficiently is necessary to deliver a computing service with value for money and a high research output.
Architectural specialisation is one option to continue to improve performance beyond the limits imposed by the slow down in Moore’s Law.
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
