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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

Feature

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

Feature

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

Feature

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

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

December 2013/January 2014

Feature

Testing times

1 December 2013

Statistical testing need no longer be difficult or time-consuming, according to Felix Grant

Feature

Only connect

1 December 2013

How are high-performance interconnects managing to moving more data, faster, and over longer distances? Tom Wilkie reports

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Simulation shifts gear

1 December 2013

In the drive for efficiency, simulation is the key to powertrain design, as Warren Clark discovers

HPC 2013-14

October/November 2013

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Too big for its boots

1 October 2013

The rise and rise of big data promises to drive increasingly imaginative scientific computing approaches, 
says Felix Grant

Feature

The right prescription

1 October 2013

Are informatics solutions keeping up with trends in pharma? Beth Harlen speaks to industry figures

Feature

The long road

1 October 2013

A level of debate surrounds the question of how and when we might reach exascale computing. Industry experts share their views on the subject

August/September 2013

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Where's the beef?

1 August 2013

With the food and drink industry hit by another scandal, Beth Harlen questions what informatics can do to prevent future occurrences

Feature

Meeting demand

1 August 2013

Once the sole domain of researchers with access to large budgets, high-performance computing is coming to the masses. Beth Harlen reports

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Trials, tests and tribulations

1 August 2013

Kevin McNulty, director of product marketing for life sciences at Intralinks, explores the technology behind secure collaboration within the life sciences industry

Feature

Taming turbulence

1 August 2013

Beth Harlen investigates why turbulence remains one of the great unsolved physics problems

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Pretty as a picture

1 August 2013

What is the impact of the graphical visualisation of data within scientific computing? Felix Grant investigates

June/July 2013

Feature

Keeping it cool

1 June 2013

As data centres come under increasing economic and environmental pressures, Beth Harlen explores the impact of the latest cooling solutions

Feature

Free and easy?

1 June 2013

Gary Tyreman, CEO at Univa, reveals why users of open-source software crave the most support

Feature

Advancing computing

1 June 2013

François Robin, Jean-Philippe Nominé and Torsten Wilde share PRACEs perspective on HPC cooling

Feature

The rise of Hadoop

1 June 2013

Hadoop, an open source software project for distributed computing, is becoming synonymous with big data. Beth Harlen speaks to industry experts to find out why

April/May 2013

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The optimisation conundrum

1 April 2013

Carlo Poloni, president of Esteco and Engineering Professor at University of Trieste, argues in favour of optimisation

Feature

Earth, wind and fire

1 April 2013

From natural disasters to natural resources, modelling and simulation software is improving knowledge, as Warren Clark discovers

February/March 2013

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The joy of text

1 February 2013

Teasing out valuable data from a sea of text is no mean feat, as Felix Grant discovers

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All part of the service

1 February 2013

The unique requirements of contract research organisations (CROs) demand the deployment of sophisticated informatics systems, as Beth Harlen discovers

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The changing face of computational chemistry

1 February 2013

Chemistry software will be split between expert tools for computational chemists and 3D desktop modelling tools to support the work of medicinal chemists, says Dr Martin Slater, director of consulting at Cresset

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Body of evidence

1 February 2013

Beth Harlen presents two case studies exploring how modelling and simulation are changing the face of medical research

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