The Met Office has signed a multimillion-pound agreement with Microsoft for the provision of a supercomputer to accelerate weather and climate forecasting in the UK
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Cloud supercomputer to advance research at Cambridge University
20 April 2021
A new open, cloud-native supercomputer at Cambridge University will enable researchers to pursue exploration like never before
Durham University and DiRAC’s supercomputer will accelerate our understanding of the universe
15 April 2021
Durham University’s new COSMA-8 supercomputer — to be used by world-leading cosmologists in the UK to research the origins of the universe — will be accelerated by Nvidia HDR InfiniBand networking
San Diego Supercomputer Center adopts Habana for efficient AI
12 April 2021
The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at UC San Diego will use its Voyager supercomputer as a first-of-its-kind in the National Science Foundation resource portfolio focusing on advancing AI research across a range of science and engineering domains
US adds Chinese HPC organisations to trade blacklist
09 April 2021
The US Department of Commerce has added seven Chinese supercomputing centres to a trade blacklist for conducting activities that are contrary to the national security or foreign policy interests of the United States
Repurposing drugs to manage Covid-19 progression
09 April 2021
Researchers from the University of Cambridge, European Molecular Biology Laboratory’s European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), VA Boston Healthcare System and Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT) have used a large-scale human genetics study to identify drug targets important for managing Covid-19 in its early stages.
OpenHPC has announced the release of OpenHPC v2.1
07 April 2021
OpenHPC has announced the release of OpenHPC v2.1. This is a significant update that targets support for two new major OS distro versions: CentOS8 and OpenSUSE Leap 15
Oracle announces compute instances with 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Ice Lake processors
07 April 2021
Oracle has announced the availability of new computing instances with 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Ice Lake processors. These new instances are available in a limited preview, with worldwide general availability on April 28, 2021. The launch of these new instances is the latest step in Oracle’s commitment to providing enterprise-grade capability for compute-intensive and high-performance computing (HPC) workloads.
The Pistoia Alliance tackles challenges in data governance
30 March 2021
The Pistoia Alliance a not-for-profit alliance that advocates for greater collaboration in life sciences R&D, has announced a Data Governance Community of Interest (CoI) to help companies improve data-sharing infrastructure and accelerate R&D innovation
Collaboration aims to enhance Covid-19 diagnostic testing
23 March 2021
A collaboration between Thermo Fisher Scientific and Artificial aims to enable improved integration of software and robotics platforms to maximise COVID-19 testing throughput and efficiency
LLNL event encourages growth of women in data science
18 March 2021
Coinciding with International Women’s Day on March 8, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory hosted its 4th Women in Data Science (WiDS) regional event
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