The rise and rise of big data promises to drive increasingly imaginative scientific computing approaches, 
says Felix Grant
Beth Harlen reports on the strides being made within the UK climate modelling community
Our ability to digitise the world around us now readily outstrips our ability to process the data we generate. 
Rob Baxter reports
John Barr offers his take on the future of cloud computing and HPC
A level of debate surrounds the question of how and when we might reach exascale computing. Industry experts share their views on the subject
Andrew Jones explains why, 
when it comes to high-performance computing, science/dollar is not 
the same as Flops/dollar
Are informatics solutions keeping up with trends in pharma? Beth Harlen speaks to industry figures
The automotive sector is undergoing a period of rapid and disruptive transformation from both a business and technical standpoint.
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
