Keeping track of agricultural data presents special problems for informatics systems, as Sophia Ktori finds out
Liquid cooling can take many forms but expertise from embedded systems can also point the way to a green future for HPC, as Tom Wilkie discovers
The current buzz in the world of high-performance
computing is exascale systems. The next major milestone
is HPC systems that will be capable of executing an exaflop
- a billion billion floating point operations per second,
writes John Barr
At the Paperless Lab Academy (PLA), which took place in
Amsterdam on 13 and 14 May, the importance of managing
change and the limits to data sharing were important
topics. Tom Wilkie reports
Through the use of cutting-edge simulation, software engineers are developing innovative new wind energy technology and increasing the efficiency and durability of wind turbines. The drive to find sustainable energy sources is one of the most pressing concerns facing society.
Dame Sally Davies, the outgoing Chief Medical Officer for England, pulls no punches when it comes to the threat of antibiotic resistance. She has called for an ‘Extinction Rebellion-type’ response to it, describing it as ‘catastrophic’ and ‘as dangerous as climate change’.
The Pistoia Alliance has been pioneering initiatives that will support organisations as they work to enable and engage Fair (findable, accessible, interoperable, reusable) principles of data management and stewardship in their organisations.
Achronix and Bittware collaborate on a new FPGA designed for cloud, AI and machine learning applications, writes Robert Roe
By increasing the energy efficiency of a supercomputer scientists can save huge amounts of money over the total lifecycle of the system. With ever-increasing core counts and increasingly large supercomputers, the drive for increased computational power comes at a cost.
