Shimmer Research, a developer of wearable technology for research applications, has announced the launch of a healthcare industry open source initiative for wearable sensor algorithms
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PRACE SHAPE Programme announces support for more SMEs
11 September 2019
PRACE has announced thaty following the 9th Call for applications to SHAPE, five more SMEs will be able to start working with PRACE to gain access to HPC expertise and resources, expand their HPC experience and ultimately enhance their business
Texas announces the world's fastest academic supercomputer
05 September 2019
The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at The University of Texas at Austin has announced the launch of Frontera, funded by a $60 million award from the National Science Foundation (NSF)
Matrix Gemini expands capabilities for biobank management
04 September 2019
The Matrix Gemini Biobank Management System from Autoscribe Informatics has been improved to offer greater versatility with the inclusion of environmental monitoring and equipment calibration and maintenance monitoring capabilities
MIPT physicists imitate biological memory
29 August 2019
Researchers from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology have created a device that acts like a synapse in the living brain, storing information and gradually forgetting it when not accessed for a long time.
Tachyum Joins CXL High-Speed Interconnect Consortium
28 August 2019
Tachyum has announced it has joined the Compute Express Link (CXL) Consortium, a group of companies dedicated to advancing a new, open-industry standard interconnect designed to address the increasing demands of high-performance computational workloads
Atos and C-DAC agreement aims to advance quantum computing
27 August 2019
C-DAC (Centre for Development of Advanced Computing), an Indian research organisation and Atos, have announced a Cooperation Agreement to advance Quantum Computing, Artificial Intelligence and Exascale Computing
Isansys granted US Patent for its patient monitoring platform
19 August 2019
Isansys Lifecare, a digital healthcare company and developer of a patient monitoring platform that enables the early detection of deterioration in patients, has announced that a key method patent has been granted by the US Patent Office
Ansys and Subaru collaboration aims to power HEV design
16 August 2019
Subaru is pioneering a new control system that aims to deliver unrivalled safety and reliability performance for their next-generation hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) using ANSYS embedded software solutions
Cray announces Shasta software
14 August 2019
Cray has announced an entirely new, open and extensible software platform to address the growing need for supercomputing across government and private industries
Optalysys appoints professor Thomas Krauss
31 July 2019
Optalysys, a comapny which spelises in the development of optical processing technology, has announced the addition of Professor Thomas F Krauss to their Scientific Advisory Board
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