Intersect360 Research, a market research company specialising in the high-performance computing industry, has released a market forecast detailing the expected compound annual growth rates (CAGRs) predicted for the HPC industry over the next five years

Xilinx has announced that Baidu, a Chinese language Internet search provider, is utilising Xilinx FPGAs to accelerate machine learning applications in its data centres in China.

Earlham Institute has created a dedicated HPC cluster for international data portal ‘CyVerse’ that will provide free open-source genome analysis for big data research

Psychiatric patients at the UK's Broadmoor Hospital have been assessed in the first health monitoring trial using contactless camera-based technology

IBM has joined forces with Siemens Healthineers in a five-year deal aimed at helping healthcare organisations to provide better-value care to patients

Researchers from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT), together with colleagues from Germany and the Netherlands have discovered a way to significantly improve computer memory performance

The Alan Turing Institute has been awarded $5 million of Microsoft Azure cloud computing credits to support its research into data science. Researchers at the Alan Turing Institute will use the Azure cloud computing platform to undertake computer-intensive activities such as data analytics at scale, machine learning and data visualisation

The University of Queensland (UQ) has received a new high-performance data storage fabric from DataDirect Networks (DDN) to facilitate easier access to data between its main campus and its off-site data centre

With the close of the Adept Project this week comes the release of a new open-source suite of energy measurement tools, developed throughout the course of the research project.

Informatics research in Europe has been bolstered by The European Commission which is providing €89 million to the 'Human Brain Project' alongside a €1.5M grant from the European Research Council