October/November 2009

Aircraft are enormously sophisticated systems - and expensive, as well, so effective prototyping becomes a matter of survival. Paul Schreier investigates how CFD and other engineering software tools have become indispensable in optimising aircraft and for developing completely new concepts

Computers are continuing along their astounding path down the price/performance curve to the point where you can literally put the power of what we not long ago considered a supercomputer on or beside your desk in an office environment. Paul Schreier reviews some of these powerful systems

Greg Blackman looks at how data management software is used in the petrochemical industry

Felix Grant fishes for data analysis applications among the mysteries of the deep

Stephen Mounsey looks at how HPC is transforming biology and medicine

Dave Champagne, vice president and general manager of informatics at Thermo Fisher Scientific, on the task of interpreting laboratory data at enterprise level