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April/May 2015

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Out with the old and out with the internal

24 April 2015

Outsourcing, end-of-life LIMS, and disruptive technologies such as the cloud, are driving changes to the laboratory informatics landscape, as Tom Wilkie discovered at the Paperless Lab Academy

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Future processing technologies

24 April 2015

In the second article in his series on future hardware for HPC, Robert Roe looks at alternatives to the x86, including server on a chip and OpenPower

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Why scientists should care about storage

24 April 2015

As the Large Hadron Collider restarts at Cern, data storage has become as important to scientists as compute power. But, as Tom Wilkie reports, the innovative technologies being developed have much wider applications

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Taking action on big data

24 April 2015

Today the US National Consortium for Data Science is an active and growing organisation. Stan Ahalt discusses how and why it came into being

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Simplifying simulation

24 April 2015

Robert Roe investigates the use of simulation within the aerospace industry and the steps taken to reduce the complexity of software for engineers

February/March 2015

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Discovering the tools that aid innovation

10 February 2015

Work in the R&D laboratory starts with an idea and an experiment, not a sample. Sophia Ktori investigates how informatics packages are tailored to make life easier for scientists in the discovery laboratory

Interview

Change and continuity

10 February 2015

What happens when a relatively small informatics company is acquired by a very large healthcare corporation? Tom Wilkie looks at the case of Abbott Informatics and Starlims

December 2014/January 2015

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Informatics bites back

12 January 2015

From safety and nutrition to contamination and complaints, the food and beverage industry deals with it all. Rebecca Pool talks to key players to find out exactly why informatics systems are now so crucially important

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Future clears for HPC

12 January 2015

Global investment in high-performance computing is being ramped up in the headlong march towards Exascale, writes Robert Roe

Laboratory Informatics Guide 2015

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Getting started

11 January 2015

Implementing a new informatics systems isnt always easy. Rebecca Pool talks to laboratory and project managers to find the best way forward

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The clouds are rolling in

11 January 2015

Robert Roe investigates cloud and SaaS deployment models and the inherent flexibility and scalability they provide to users

HPC 2014-15

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Power and the processor

9 December 2014

John Barr surveys the technologies that will underpin the next generation of HPC processors and finds that software, not hardware, holds the key.

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The future of HPC in Australia

9 December 2014

Lindsay Botten and Neil Stringfellow explain how Australia has developed a national HPC strategy to address the countrys unique challenges in science, climate, and economic development

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Big Data needs networks

9 December 2014

The way Europe has joined up its networks not only supports supercomputing on the continent, but also offers a model for international cooperation that might have lessons for the development of next-generation technology, as Tom Wilkie discovers

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Tools for efficient computing

9 December 2014

End-user scientists and engineers fear the complexity of running jobs in HPC. But there are software tool-kits available to help, as Tom Wilkie discovers

October/November 2014

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Streamlining aerospace design

7 November 2014

Engineers want to work on designing new aircraft, so getting software packages to talk to each other is critical, as Robert Roe reports

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Should we write out laboratory labels by hand?

7 November 2014

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

August/September 2014

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Behing the technology trends

9 September 2014

Jack Little, president of Mathworks, looks at the long-term transformations that will change how scientists and engineers solve their complex design and analysis problems

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Simulation - an innovators dilemma

9 September 2014

Dominic Gallello, president and CEO of MSC Software Corporation, believes that simulation is coming to the end of a 40-year cycle and change will be rapid in the future

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Key challenges of the post-petascale era

9 September 2014

Scot Schultz,director of HPC and Technical Computing at Mellanox Technologies, believes that interconnects are critical to the demands of big data today and that they will play a still larger role in the next generation of high-performance computers

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From the laboratory to the world

9 September 2014

Technologies developed outside the laboratory and changes in the way global companies do business are transforming laboratory informatics, according to Tom Wilkie

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Challenging, exciting, promising times

9 September 2014

Giampietro Tecchiolli, CTO of Eurotech, expects the techniques of high-performance computing to become more pervasive but worries about shortage of skilled manpower

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Transforming life sciences with data and discipline

9 September 2014

Kim Shah, director of marketing and new business development for the informatics business at Thermo Fisher Scientific, believes that businesses will become agile only through integration, innovation, automation, and intelligence

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The best is yet to come

9 September 2014

Although advances in HPC have been stellar there is even more still to come, says Mark Seager, chief technology officer, technical computing ecosystem, at Intel

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New ways to see

9 September 2014

Sam Mahalingam, chief technical officer, HPC/Cloud Solutions, at Altair, looks forward to a culture in which innovation flourishes as a result of human ingenuity and the creative application of technology

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Collaboration all the way along the value chain

9 September 2014

Max Carnecchia, CEO, Biovia, Dassault Systèmes, believes that the convergence of scientific and enterprise software will continue and that science-based organisations are becoming more social and global in the way they collaborate

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Future prospects for LIMS

9 September 2014

John Boother, managing director of Autoscribe, believes that these are exciting times to be in the LIMS business

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Creating knowledge-rich value from data

9 September 2014

Small molecule chemistry R&D is a relatively traditional subset of Scientific Computing World. Daria Thorp, president of ACD/Labs, looks to see if there is change ahead

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Education, simulation and optimisation

9 September 2014

Over the past 40 years of change, two things have remained constant, Tom Wilkie discovers: the role of mathematics and the need for highly educated and talented people

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Informatics fosters Science as a Service

9 September 2014

Karen Madden and Devendra Deshmukh of Perkin Elmer Informatics believe that data democratisation will lead to analytics as a differentiator for drawing inferences in real-time, particularly as consumption of diverse, large data sets through mobile devices increases at a rapid pace

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Make the tools easy to use

9 September 2014

Blakelee Midyett, general manager of Golden Software, believes that usability will be the key to mastering Big Data

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Controlling weather with a hammer?

9 September 2014

Thomas Hill and Paul Lewicki, authors of Statistics: Methods and Applications, consider the outlook and trends in predictive and advanced analytics

June/July 2014

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Paperless Lab Academy

17 June 2014

At the Paperless Lab Academy (PLA), which took place in
Amsterdam on 13 and 14 May, the importance of managing
change and the limits to data sharing were important
topics. Tom Wilkie reports

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Exascale Challenges

17 June 2014

The current buzz in the world of high-performance
computing is exascale systems. The next major milestone
is HPC systems that will be capable of executing an exaflop
- a billion billion floating point operations per second,
writes John Barr

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Fields of data

17 June 2014

Keeping track of agricultural data presents special problems for informatics systems, as Sophia Ktori finds out

April/May 2014

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Pharmas forward motion

1 April 2014

The pharmaceutical industry needs new informatics tools if it is to master the age of personalised medicine, Sophia Ktori discovers

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Drug discovery with data

1 April 2014

In the second part of our series on computational chemistry, Siân Harris looks at the role of modelling and high-quality data in the pharmaceutical industry

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Sound and science

1 April 2014

Jean-Louis Migeot argues that acoustic simulation needs to be an early part of any product design and that software is now available to ensure it can be done easily

February/March 2014

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Masters of multi-tasking

1 March 2014

Contract research organisations are using HPC to get the best out of pharmaceutical data. Sophia Ktori investigates

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Compound benefits

1 March 2014

Computers play an important role in the development of new chemical compounds today, writes Sian Harris in the first of two articles on computational chemistry

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