Cray has announced the Department of Defense (DoD) High Performance Computing Modernization Program (HPCMP) has awarded the Company with a $26 million supercomputer contract for a Cray XC40 supercomputer and three Cray Sonexion storage systems.
‘Moore's Law may be dead, but Mucci’s law is going strong’ says the creator of a new performance optimisation tool
Robert Roe investigates the motivation behind the architectural changes to Europes fastest supercomputer, Piz Daint, housed at the Swiss National Computing Centre
Robert Roe discusses the merits of the latest storage technologies, including a push by storage providers to develop end-to-end platforms featuring intelligent data management systems
Is the debate on open-source vs. proprietary software for scientific computing just irrelevant ideology? Andrew Jones investigates
After a shaky start, interest in migrating HPC to the cloud is growing rapidly. Tom Wilkie reports
Andrew Jones looks ahead at what 2016 has in store for HPC and finds people, not technology, to be the most important issue
Robert Roe finds that upgrading legacy HPC systems is a complicated business, and that some obvious solutions may not be the best options
Adrian Giordani reports on progress in quantum computing and carbon nanotubes, but finds their commercial application still lies some way in the future
Robert Roe finds that software scalability and portability may be more important even than energy efficiency to the future of HPC
‘Choosing a system that offers flexible configuration to match specific teams’ needs is key to digital transformation,’ says Sharon Williams, Interactive Software’s product director.
Today the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) maintains the world’s most comprehensive range of freely available and up-to-date molecular data resources
The pandemic has defined the development of laboratory software and technologies, as collaboration and remote working tools become requirements to a productive laboratory.
