Jana Erjavec wonders why researchers are slow to adopt software for electronic laboratory notebooks
The Genome Analysis Centre (TGAC), a research institute based in the UK, has dramatically reduced the time to perform large genome assembly with the installation of a new supercomputing platform based on two SGI UV 300 systems
IBM Research has announced it is making quantum computing available to members of the public, who can access and run experiments on IBMs quantum processor through the cloud
Zoe Cournia, a computational chemist and assistant professor level investigator at the Biomedical Research Foundation, Academy of Athens, has been selected as the recipient of the 1st PRACE Ada Lovelace Award for HPC
Cambridge University spin-out Optalysys has been awarded a $350k grant for a 13-month project from the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
Researchers at Purdue University are using cryo-electron microscopy and advanced computing to develop a detailed 3D image of the structure of the Zika virus
Statisticians, computer scientists and medical researchers for the UKs University of East Anglia are launching a project that uses 'big data to predict life expectancy
Certara, a provider of biosimulation technology, has announced that its regulatory and medical consultancy Synchrogenix has introduced an artificial intelligence enabled solution to meet the data transparency requirements of the clinical drug development market
A researcher based at University College London (UCL) has been awarded £100,000 to use complex computer modelling to map the start and spread of Parkinsons and Alzheimers disease
The University of Aberdeen has become the first Scottish university to partner with IBM to offer students and staff access to its cognitive computing technology
As not only the HPC industry but the larger computing ecosystem tries to overcome the slowdown and eventual end of transistor scaling described by Moore’s Law, scientists and researchers are implementing programmes that will define the technologies and new materials needed to supplement, or repla
Architectural specialisation is one option to continue to improve performance beyond the limits imposed by the slow down in Moore’s Law.
As the complexity of both HPC hardware and the challenges that scientists are trying to solve using HPC systems increases, ensuring a system is utilised efficiently is necessary to deliver a computing service with value for money and a high research output.
With data rates increasing and more complex challenges arising in life sciences, Panasas’ Jim Donovan and Dale Brantly discuss the benefits of using HPC for these workloads
