A globally harmonised system for labelling all containers in the laboratory, drawing the information from the laboratory informatics system, would be a very good thing, surely? Not so, says Gloria Metrick
Tom Wilkie reports on the marriage of magic and Matlab in motor car design
Robert Roe looks at how software can help train the engineers of tomorrow
Engineers want to work on designing new aircraft, so getting software packages to talk to each other is critical, as Robert Roe reports
Concerns about energy-efficient computing are driving innovation in cooling technologies, as Robert Roe discovers
HPC is important for economic development according to several recent reports and, Robert Roe reports, announcements about next-generation US HPC systems could be made at SC14
Engineers and industry will adopt HPC in the cloud, if it is packaged up for them in a simple container, argues UberClouds Wolfgang Gentzsch
Computing in the cloud could be seductive for scientists and engineers, but Tom Wilkie finds that there are still problems to be overcome
William Payne looks at the issues faced by HPC as the volume and variety of data produced by science and engineering grow
Robert Roe reports on how informatics can help make predictive medicine a reality
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A round-up of the latest cooling technologies for scientists using HPC to support their research.
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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
