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Advisory boards created for informatics products
06 June 2007
Bio-Rad Laboratories has launched an advisory board for its KnowItAll U product. It has also recently created an editorial board to look over its SpectraBase database.
Realistic vehicle crash tests
04 June 2007
Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Mechanics of Materials have developed a more realistic method of simulating cars crashing, potentially saving manufacturers thousands of pounds with each test.
Informatics initiative for global pharma company
31 May 2007
Global pharmaceutical company UCB has launched a major informatics initiative that will make use of Genedatas Expressionist and Phylosopher platforms.
Rapid noise analysis aids automotive company
31 May 2007
Automotive company Mira has selected LMS Test.Lab for its consultancy vehicle noise and vibration testing and development. The new software allows more rapid analysis to identify where problems may be occurring.
Teaching software helps Dutch students achieve 95 per cent pass rate
25 May 2007
Engineering students at the Polytechnical Institute of Noordelijke Hogeschool Leeuwarden in Holland (NHL) have benefited from using the Maple TA educational software, with a 95 per cent pass rate for their course.
Computer models help with riot control
25 May 2007
The randomness of riots is also what makes them so dangerous. Now, a geographer at Arizona State University is designing a computer model to help predict human behaviour at its most unpredictable.
University develops HPC cluster
25 May 2007
The University of Surrey is to install a high performance computing cluster to provide more computationally intensive research in multimedia security, intelligent and adaptive systems and the financial services industry.
$25k prize for solving computing's 'simplest' problem
17 May 2007
Wolfram Research, the creator of Mathematica, is to award a $25,000 prize to the first person or group to solve a 70-year-old puzzle at the very core of modern computing.
LMS completes share acquisition of Imagine
16 May 2007
LMS has completed the acquisition of the privately held shares of Imagine, and now plans to make an offer to buy the remaining 7 per cent currently in the hands of the public.
Research centre to explain the complexity of real life
15 May 2007
The University of Manchester is developing a £3m research centre to provide cutting-edge research on complex, real-life systems such as car safety systems, flight controllers, power stations and the human body.
News in brief
15 May 2007
The thousandth book sponsored by The MathWorks has been published. The MathWorks currently works with leading publishers and authors in academia to write and publish books based on Matlab and Simulink.
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A round-up of the latest cooling technologies for scientists using HPC to support their research.
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With the proliferation of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), the high-performance computing industry’s increasing workloads are contributing to environmental damage
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Autonomous vehicles could help to prevent road accidents and save billions in damages across the world each year.
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The pursuit of exascale HPC systems has been a target of the HPC community since the first petaflop system broke into the Top500 in the June 2008 edition of the biannual list of the fastest supercomputers based on the Linpack
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Simulation software is helping accelerate battery development, writes Gemma Church
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Developing skills to use advanced computing resources such as high-performance computing (HPC), artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), and quantum computing is becoming an increasingly important skill set for
