News

Seeking investment is the number one challenge for HPC resource managers

06 July 2020

Initial results of the Scientific Computing World (SCW) survey for HPC resource managers have shown that seeking investment and training and support are major concerns for those that operate HPC facilities

Composite, Simulation

Tohoku University and NEC collaboration accelerates the development of composite materials for aircraft

03 July 2020

Tohoku University Graduate School of Engineering, Graduate School of Information Sciences, and NEC Corporation have announced a collaboration aimed at developing composite materials for aircraft

Storage

UC San Diego Center for Microbiome Innovation increases storage capacity to meet demand for COVID research

02 July 2020

Researchers at the UC San Diego Center for Microbiome Innovation (CMI), have expanded their Panasas high-performance computing (HPC) storage infrastructure with an additional two petabytes (PB) of ActiveStor data storage to support the growing number of I/O-intensive tasks related to COVID-19 research

Japanese system powered by ARM CPUs is the world’s fastest supercomputer

25 June 2020

The 55th edition of the TOP500 has been published with the top spot now taken by an Arm powered Japanese system Fugaku

The SuperMUC system housed at the LRZ

LRZ to continue research into Fujitsu A64FX processors

24 June 2020

The Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ) will extend its testbed program using HPE’s Cray CS500 system with Fujitsu A64FX processors based on the Arm architecture

The Pistoia Alliance partners with the America Chemical Society

23 June 2020

CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society specialising in scientific information solutions has partnered with the Pistoia Alliance to develop and host the Pistoia Alliance Chemical Safety Library

PRACE awards a further ten projects to support COVID-19 research

18 June 2020

PRACE recently announced that it had awarded another ten projects with a total of 227,578,000 core hours under the Fast Track Call for Proposals to support research into the COVID-19 pandemic

Exascale

EPEEC releases programming guidelines for parallel applications

16 June 2020

The European programming framework EPEEC has announced an important milestone with the publication of the EPEEC Programming Guidelines for Parallel Applications

Survey

Take our survey on HPC for science

12 June 2020

Scientific Computing World is running a short (5-minute) survey on the use of HPC within scientific research.

Autonomous vehicles

CCAAR calls for 'next generational thinking' on autonomous vehicles

10 June 2020

The Centre for Connected & Autonomous Automotive Research (CCAAR) has asserted that fresh thinking from new industry entrants and innovative academics will play a key role in realising future mobility