The human touch
11 February 2009
Computing applied to the earth sciences will save human lives, according to Felix Grant
A round-up of the latest cooling technologies for scientists using HPC to support their research.
February/March 2009
Weathering well
11 February 2009
Gemma Church finds out how scientists are using HPC to predict climate and weather more accurately and efficiently
Criminal investigations
11 February 2009
The increase in automation in forensic science in the last few years has led to a requirement for data management systems. Greg Blackman looks at the importance of LIMS in forensic laboratories
A supercomputer chip for every man
11 February 2009
While GPUs (graphics processing units) were initially designed to accelerate video and gaming, vendors of science and engineering software are using them to accelerate their code. Paul Schreier looks at the benefits for today and tomorrow
Driven by science
11 February 2009
Professor Marek Niezgódka, Director of the ICM Centre at the University of Warsaw, explains why the centre heads the Green Top500 list and concentrates on open systems
A single notebook for the enterprise
11 February 2009
Trevor Heritage, president, Symyx Software
Illuminating optics
11 February 2009
Paul Schreier reviews a sample of the applications and breakthrough products that advanced optics software have made possible
Finding sense in finance
11 February 2009
Dietmar Maringer, professor of computational management sciences, University of Basel
Latest issue
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With the proliferation of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), the high-performance computing industry’s increasing workloads are contributing to environmental damage
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Autonomous vehicles could help to prevent road accidents and save billions in damages across the world each year.
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The pursuit of exascale HPC systems has been a target of the HPC community since the first petaflop system broke into the Top500 in the June 2008 edition of the biannual list of the fastest supercomputers based on the Linpack
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Simulation software is helping accelerate battery development, writes Gemma Church
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Developing skills to use advanced computing resources such as high-performance computing (HPC), artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), and quantum computing is becoming an increasingly important skill set for
