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Managing the complexity of molecular diagnostics

27 May 2016

Sophia Ktori profiles UniConnect, a specialist provider of informatics software for use in molecular diagnostics

Feature

Keeping ideology out of the equation

27 May 2016

Is the debate on open-source vs. proprietary software for scientific computing just irrelevant ideology? Andrew Jones investigates

Feature

Intelligent interconnects

1 April 2016

Robert Roe looks at how interconnect technology is helping to change the landscape of high-performance computing

Change bursts from the HPC crystal ball

16 February 2016

Andrew Jones looks ahead at what 2016 has in store for HPC and finds people, not technology, to be the most important issue

Feature

HPC finally climbs into the cloud

16 February 2016

After a shaky start, interest in migrating HPC to the cloud is growing rapidly. Tom Wilkie reports

Feature

Where to put a wind farm

16 February 2016

Gemma Church finds out how simulation software aids and optimises the decisions behind siting a wind farm

Feature

Revving up knowledge through simulation

16 February 2016

In the high-octane world of motorbike racing, a balance between simulation and physical testing can be crucial to improved performance, writes Robert Roe

Interview

Taking drug development into the virtual world

16 February 2016

In her series of profiles of bioinformatics companies, Sophia Ktori looks at the work of biosimulation specialist, Certara

Interview

Telling data's story

16 February 2016

Gemma Church talks to data visualisation company Golden Software about three decades in business, Microsoft bugs and working in the geoscience arena

Feature

Data security in a collaborative environment

16 February 2016

The R&D sector is increasingly turning to collaborative, partnered and outsourced projects to boost innovation, reduce costs and help expedite development, writes Sophia Ktori

Feature

How is life different in the cloud?

16 February 2016

In her second article on cloud computing, Sophia Ktori looks at how both vendors and customers of informatics systems are having to change their IT culture

The king is dead, long live the king

14 January 2016

Robert Roe finds that upgrading legacy HPC systems is a complicated business, and that some obvious solutions may not be the best options

Feature

Rise of the machines

14 January 2016

Gemma Church investigates how simulation software models the equipment used in the oil and gas industry

Interview

Bridging the language divide

14 January 2016

Sophia Ktori continues her profiles of informatics companies by looking at how BSSN is pioneering data standardisation

Interview

The changing face of CAE

14 January 2016

Gemma Church talks to engineering simulation company Altair about how Computer Aided Engineering has become mainstream

Interview

Is engineer by objective the future for simulation?

14 January 2016

Gemma Church profiles engineering simulation provider Noesis Solutions on how it is transforming designs into benchmark products and getting it right first time

Interview

Simulation apps for everyone

14 January 2016

In her profile of simulation software company Comsol, Gemma Church hears about creating modelling applications to further the reach of multiphysics simulation

Feature

Life in the cloud

14 January 2016

In the first of two articles about informatics software as a service, Sophia Ktori looks at the motivations for transferring to the cloud

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A quantum leap in processors?

14 January 2016

Adrian Giordani reports on progress in quantum computing and carbon nanotubes, but finds their commercial application still lies some way in the future

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

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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

Feature

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

Feature

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

Interview

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

Interview

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

Interview

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

Feature

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

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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

HPC evolves from the commodity cluster

2 November 2015

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

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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

Feature

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

Interview

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

Interview

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

Interview

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

Feature

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

Feature

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

Feature

An open invitation to work on the worlds fastest computer

25 August 2015

7 July 2015

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

Interview

Delivering an end-to-end R&D Solution

7 July 2015

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

Interview

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

Feature

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

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

Feature

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

Feature

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

Feature

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

Feature

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

Interview

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

Interview

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

Feature

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

Feature

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

February/March 2015

Feature

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

Feature

Simulation to satisfy safety standards

10 February 2015

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

Feature

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

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

Feature

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

Feature

Does HPCs future lie in remote visualisation

10 February 2015

12 January 2015

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

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