June/July 2015

Robert Roe investigates the use of collaboration and open source programming models to drive computational modelling of weather and climate research

Robert Roe investigates how accelerators are driving the design of new architectures in HPC to solve the challenges of exascale computing

Software approaches to energy efficiency in HPC may yield unexpected improvements in the hardware of next-generation mobile phone networks, Tom Wilkie discovers

Tom Wilkie admires the ingenuity of the engineers who are devising so many ways to keep supercomputers cool

Adrian Giordani asks what benchmarks should be applied as the nature of supercomputing changes on the way to exascale

From the PRACEdays15 conference in Dublin, Tom Wilkie and Robert Roe report on the inadequacies of Open Source and commercial software, support for Irish industry, and HPC policies in Europe and Japan

Colin Gray explains how the Scottish Environment Protection Agency used an informatics hub to integrate its data and move towards an evidence-based approach