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October/November 2015

The cutting Edge of data management

9 November 2015

In her profile of The Edge Software Consultancy, Sophia Ktori discusses how the company is expanding its portfolio to address the challenges of data analytics as well as data management

Managing resources in the cloud

9 November 2015

Sophia Ktori continues her series profiling informatics companies by looking at how GoInformatics offers software as a service over the cloud

The social engineering network

9 November 2015

Company profile: Gemma Church talks to engineering software house Esteco about simulations evolving into strategic decisions for companies and creating a social network for engineers

Is the informatics sector ready for QbD?

9 November 2015

Sophia Ktori looks at how process analytic technologies can make quality by design a reality

Skies not yet clear for scientific cloud computing

9 November 2015

Big data and cloud computing are thriving in commerce and business, but scientific and engineering applications appear to be lagging behind, Tom Wilkie discovers

Transforming discovery through integrated, comprehensive data management

9 November 2015

Dan Bedard describes the progress that the integrated Rule-Oriented Data System is making in removing the data management roadblocks that inhibit the wider research use of data

Next-generation software: who will write it?

9 November 2015

Robert Roe finds that software scalability and portability may be more important even than energy efficiency to the future of HPC

Cloud drives simulation and collaboration

9 November 2015

At the European Altair Technology conference, Robert Roe heard that new tools for simulation and cloud technology are driving innovation within modelling and simulation

Optimisation: Re-invigorating smoke stack industries

9 November 2015

Robert Roe investigates the use of optimisation software in modelling and simulation and its power to re-invigorate traditional manufacturing methods

HPC 2015-16

How to make HPC happen in Europe

2 November 2015

Leonardo Flores AÃ±over and Augusto BurgueÃ±o Arjona from the European Commission discuss how and why Europe should play a leading role globally in HPC

Software critical to HPCs future

2 November 2015

Robert Roe discusses the trends that will shape high-performance computing over the coming years

HPC evolves from the commodity cluster

2 November 2015

Robert Roe surveys the processor market that underlies the next generation of HPC systems

Computing Canadas future

2 November 2015

Mark Dietrich outlines how Canada is building a digital infrastructure to transform the country from an economy based on natural resources to a knowledge-based economy

Solutions not just technology

2 November 2015

Companies, from integrators to high-end suppliers, are all focused on the customer, as Tom Wilkie discovers in a survey of the marketplace for HPC systems

August/September 2015

Cloud computing powers the profitability of wind

25 August 2015

The wind energy industry is increasingly looking to the cloud and to modelling and simulation to solve its engineering problems, as Gemma Church reports

Making lighter work of heavy data

25 August 2015

Continuing her company profiles, Sophia Ktori finds that Waters NuGenesis is differentiated because it can capture data from any instrument in the laboratory

The silver bullet for engineering simulation?

25 August 2015

In the first of a new series of company profiles, Gemma Church investigates how CD-adapco is helping engineers to collaborate and move complex simulations into the design phase

Simulating one step at a time

25 August 2015

Maplesoft has expanded beyond symbolic computing to mathematical modelling and simulation, as Gemma Church reports in the second of her series of company profiles

China: not one but two 100 Petaflop machines within a year?

25 August 2015

Although the Long March is a cornerstone of Chinas contemporary history, Tom Wilkie finds that the countrys march to supercomputing dominance could be short and fast

A portable data format for laboratory data

25 August 2015

Wolfgang Colsman and Rachel Uphill describe the work of Allotrope Foundation in harmonising laboratory data formats

An open invitation to work on the worlds fastest computer

25 August 2015

In conversation with Tom Wilkie, the deputy designer of Tianhe-2 spoke warmly of the benefits of peaceful and open international cooperation in using supercomputers for science

Chinese Government kicks commercial companies overseas

25 August 2015

Tom Wilkie reports on how Chinas commercial supercomputer manufacturers are seeking export markets with the support of their Government

The new realism: software runs slowly on supercomputers

25 August 2015

No supercomputer runs real applications faster than five percent of its design speed. Robert Roe and Tom Wilkie report on recalibrating expectations of exascale and on efforts to tune software to run faster

Lives and money depend on big data and the cloud

25 August 2015

Tom Wilkie looks at some issues of life and death that will be discussed at the forthcoming ISC Cloud and Big Data conference in Frankfurt

June/July 2015

Accelerating the development of HPC

7 July 2015

Robert Roe investigates how accelerators are driving the design of new architectures in HPC to solve the challenges of exascale computing

Climate, clusters, and cooperation

7 July 2015

Robert Roe investigates the use of collaboration and open source programming models to drive computational modelling of weather and climate research

Delivering an end-to-end R&D Solution

7 July 2015

Sophia Ktori profiles IDBS, a company focusing on analytics as well as informatics

Transforming informatics with a marketplace in the Cloud

7 July 2015

Continuing her series profiling companies providing informatics software, Sophia Ktori looks at the innovative technology of Core Informatics

Delivering data for environmental protection

7 July 2015

Colin Gray explains how the Scottish Environment Protection Agency used an informatics hub to integrate its data and move towards an evidence-based approach

Parallel programs need new maths

7 July 2015

From the PRACEdays15 conference in Dublin, Tom Wilkie and Robert Roe report on the inadequacies of Open Source and commercial software, support for Irish industry, and HPC policies in Europe and Japan

How do you measure a supercomputer's speed?

7 July 2015

Adrian Giordani asks what benchmarks should be applied as the nature of supercomputing changes on the way to exascale

Cool ways to save energy

7 July 2015

Tom Wilkie admires the ingenuity of the engineers who are devising so many ways to keep supercomputers cool

Software softens energy demands

7 July 2015

Software approaches to energy efficiency in HPC may yield unexpected improvements in the hardware of next-generation mobile phone networks, Tom Wilkie discovers

April/May 2015

Grappling with the growth of scientific data

24 April 2015

Metadata is key to mastering the volumes of data in science and engineering, argues Bob Murphy, and tools are available to make it easier

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

Intel and Cray to build next-generation US supercomputer

24 April 2015

Even a nation as advanced as the USA can field only two consortia capable of getting to exascale.Robert Roe reports

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

HPC is too important to be left to men

24 April 2015

Alison Kennedy discusses why self-help will not be enough to overcome the challenge of XXscale in the HPC industry

Making light work of QC micro for regulated manufacturing

24 April 2015

Lonza Biosciences MODA system offers not just a paperless but a mobile and sanitisable way to carry out microbiology testing. Sophia Ktori reports

Dont make a lottery out of choosing a LIMS

24 April 2015

Autoscribes LIMS has more than the usual applications, from lotteries to vehicle rentals, as Sophia Ktori discovers

Software for satisfying rigorous regulations

24 April 2015

Paper records are no longer good enough; only an electronic informatics system will satisfy regulatory requirements, as Sophia Ktori discovers

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

What is the difference between a LIMS and a LIS?

24 April 2015

Gloria Metrick highlights a significant trend in informatics software: the growing convergence between sample-centric laboratory and patient-centric clinical systems

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

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

February/March 2015

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

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

Does HPCs future lie in remote visualisation

10 February 2015

At the intersection of big data, the cloud, and HPC, remote visualisation is anything but a remote prospect, as Tom Wilkie discovers

Will OpenCL open the gates for FPGAs?

10 February 2015

In the first article in a series on future hardware for HPC, Robert Roe explains how OpenCL may make FPGAs an attractive option

Simulation to satisfy safety standards

10 February 2015

Robert Roe finds that divergent safety regulations are forcing car manufacturers to turn to integrated simulation

Lifecycle management software reaches new products

10 February 2015

Robert Roe looks at the software that can manage a product from the cradle to the grave - and beyond

December 2014/January 2015

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

A strategy for HPC that goes beyond HPC

12 January 2015

The implications of the recent announcements about Exascale technology go far beyond HPC. Tom Wilkie considers the implications

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

Simulations to withstand wind and ice

12 January 2015

The oil and gas industry depends on simulation. Robert Roe explores how the technique can optimise the integrity of structures in extreme environments

Laboratory Informatics Guide 2015

Up with quality and out with paper

11 January 2015

Integrating informatics into industrial processes can make them more flexible and improve quality, as Tom Wilkie discovers

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

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

Managing change in the laboratory to deliver more value

11 January 2015

Technical innovation is inescapable and, Peter Boogaard argues, will force us to re-think our laboratory processes to increase their value to the enterprise

HPC 2014-15

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.

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

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

Why storage is as important as computation

9 December 2014

The era of data-centric HPC is upon us. Robert Roe investigates how data storage companies are rising to the challenge

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

Why governments need HPC and HPC needs governments

7 November 2014

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

Cooling becomes a hot topic

7 November 2014

Concerns about energy-efficient computing are driving innovation in cooling technologies, as Robert Roe discovers

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

Software gets student engineers into top gear

7 November 2014

Robert Roe looks at how software can help train the engineers of tomorrow

Can there be magic in the computing machine?

7 November 2014

Tom Wilkie reports on the marriage of magic and Matlab in motor car design

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

Fuelling growth in the petrochemicals sector

7 November 2014

Informatics has an increasingly important role at all stages in the
petrochemicals industry, as Sophia Ktori discovers

Treating the individual with the knowledge of all

7 November 2014

Robert Roe reports on how informatics can help make predictive medicine a reality

The many shades of data intensive

7 November 2014

William Payne looks at the issues faced by HPC as the volume and variety of data produced by science and engineering grow

Does the future of HPC lie in the cloud?

7 November 2014

Computing in the cloud could be seductive for scientists and engineers, but Tom Wilkie finds that there are still problems to be overcome

Take HPC to the cloud - in a container

7 November 2014

Engineers and industry will adopt HPC in the cloud, if it is packaged up for them in a simple container, argues UberClouds Wolfgang Gentzsch

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