In the bicentenary of the birth of Ada Lovelace, widely regarded as having devised the first computable algorithm and thus as the worlds first computer programmer, Tom Wilkie considers some initiatives to counter the widespread impression that scientific computing is the preserve of nerdy men
Dotmatics, a provider of scientific informatics solutions and services, has appointed Dr Rob Brown, from Biovia, Dassault Systèmes (formerly Accelrys), as vice-president of global informatics
In September Louis Culot became chief executive officer of BioData, a Digital Science company. He talked to Siân Harris about the informatics challenges presented by the growing volumes of laboratory data.
The Texas Advanced Computing Centre (TACC) at the University of Texas has appointed Dan C Stanzione as executive director
In sign of the growing importance of data as well as processing to HPC, the HPC integrator OCF has appointed a Big Data Scientist to the company
Bull has announced the appointment of Andy Grant to the post of director for high-performance computing (HPC) and Big Data Practice
Terascala, the fast data company, has announced that Jamie Coffin, former vice president and general manager for Dell Healthcare and Life Science division, has joined Terascalas Board of Directors
Optibrium, a developer of software for drug discovery, has announced the appointment of Peter Hunt as Director of Computational Chemistry
Enterome bioscience, a developer of innovative disease management solutions based on a deep understanding of the gut microbiome, has announced that Alessandra Cervino has joined the company as head of discovery
Silicon Mechanics has announced the appointment of Daniel Chow as Chief Operating Officer
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A round-up of the latest cooling technologies for scientists using HPC to support their research.
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With the proliferation of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), the high-performance computing industry’s increasing workloads are contributing to environmental damage
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Autonomous vehicles could help to prevent road accidents and save billions in damages across the world each year.
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The pursuit of exascale HPC systems has been a target of the HPC community since the first petaflop system broke into the Top500 in the June 2008 edition of the biannual list of the fastest supercomputers based on the Linpack
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Simulation software is helping accelerate battery development, writes Gemma Church
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Developing skills to use advanced computing resources such as high-performance computing (HPC), artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), and quantum computing is becoming an increasingly important skill set for
