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
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UC San Diego Center for Microbiome Innovation increases storage capacity to meet demand for COVID research
02 July 2020
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
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
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.
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
NetApp deploys Iguazio's data science platform
10 June 2020
NetApp has started using a data science platform from Iguazio for real-time machine learning applications
University of Hull supercomputer supports global COVID-19 research
04 June 2020
A £2 million-pound high-performance computing (HPC) system at the University of Hull is playing a crucial role in enabling COVID-19 research
AMD COVID-19 HPC Fund delivers supercomputing to researchers
02 June 2020
AMD and Penguin Computing have donated systems totalling seven petaflops of compute power to researchers as part of the AMD HPC Fund for COVID-19 research.
Air Flow Simulation reduces COVID-19 propagation risk
21 May 2020
Airflow simulation software from Dassault Systèmes was recently used for a collaborative project to reduce the risk of virus propagation inside the St Francis Hospital in Marange-Silvange in northeastern France
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