Veteran technologist, entrepreneur and self-confessed 'geek' Steve Oberlin has joined Nvidia to help the company develop its high-performance computing initiative
Dr Thomas Sterling has become the first recipient of the HPC Vanguard Award in recognition of his outstanding leadership role in the HPC community's strategic push to achieve exascale levels of supercomputing performance
The University of Tennessee's Jack Dongarra is to receive the prestigious ACM-IEEE Computer Society Ken Kennedy Award for 2013 during the international conference for high-performance computing, networking, storage and analysis, SC13, in November
The OpenFabrics Alliance (OFA) has announced the appointment of Paul Grun as the new vice chair of the organisation
The IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC), an international forum within the IEEE, has named Argonne's Jeff Hammond a Young Achiever in Scalable Computing for 2013
A leader in computational materials design will bring an industry perspective to the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences this year
H. Edward Seidel, senior vice president of research and innovation at the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology in Moscow, has been named the director of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The Gauss Centre for Supercomputing (GCS), Germanys Tier-0 supercomputing institution, has appointed Michael Resch as its new chairman of the board of directors
The Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) has welcomed T.P. Straatsma as its new scientific computing group (SCG) leader
D-Wave Systems, a commercial quantum computing company, has announced the formal launch of its US business
Elsevier and ExactCure recently announced a collaboration to develop and offer to hospitals – without charge – drug-specific exposure models for 20 already approved medicines that are being tested as potential treatments for Covid-19.
With the world’s focus on the COVID-19 pandemic, LIMS providers are working to develop solutions tailored to assist in the testing and management of virus samples.
Researchers at Harvard Medical School (HMS) have released an open source drug discovery platform, VirtualFlow, that harnesses supercomputing power to screen potentially billions of small organic compound structures in parallel, in the hunt for promising new drug molecules.
When designing a component or system, where do you start? In days gone by, designers would literally go back to the drawing board, using their experience and expertise to develop a new concept.
Effective utilisation of computing tools is critical to both AI and HPC research, with recent projects in both fields highlighting the scientific benefit of carefully managing resources.
Advances in computer vision combined with AI computing are helping pathologists to more accurately identify subtypes of cancer - leading to better treatments for patients, explains Dan Ruderman.
