Managing performance
1 April 2017
Robert Roe explores the options available to optimise the use of HPC resources
A round-up of the latest cooling technologies for scientists using HPC to support their research.
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Carbon nanotube transistors open up to innovative scales
1 April 2017
Adrian Giordani investigates the increasing use of carbon nanotubes to produce next-generation semi-conductor technologies
Future technologies
1 February 2017
Robert Roe investigates the use of technologies in HPC that could help shape the design of future supercomputers
Managing energy efficiency at NASA
1 February 2017
Robert Roe learns that the NASA advanced supercomputing division (NAS) is optimising energy efficiency and water usage to maximise the facility’s potential to deliver computing services to its user community
A cloud is forming
1 February 2017
Robert Roe investigates the growth in cloud technology which is being driven by scientific, engineering and HPC workflows through application specific hardware
Tooling up for exascale
1 December 2016
Robert Roe investigates some of the European projects focusing on preparing today’s supercomputers and HPC programmers for exascale HPC
A question of scale
1 December 2016
The Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC) at Forschungszentrum Jülich in Germany has been operating supercomputers of the highest performance class since 1987. Tim Gillett talks to Norbert Attig and Thomas Eickermann
Modular HPC goes mainstream
1 October 2016
William Payne investigates the growing trend of using modular HPC, built on industry standard hardware and software, to support users across a range of both existing and emerging application areas
Energy efficient supercomputing
1 October 2016
The Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ) is driving the development of new energy-efficient practices for HPC, as Robert Roe discovers
Data dissection
1 August 2016
Developments in bioinformatics are putting pressure on those tasked with data analysis and interpretation, writes Sophia Ktori
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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
