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
Dan Bedard describes the progress that the integrated Rule-Oriented Data System is making in removing the data management roadblocks that inhibit the wider research use of data
Big data and cloud computing are thriving in commerce and business, but scientific and engineering applications appear to be lagging behind, Tom Wilkie discovers
The latest version of the Bright Cluster Manager software is now integrated with the Intel Enterprise Edition for Lustre (IEEL) software, enabling systems administrators to deploy, use and maintain Intel Enterprise Edition for Lustre using Bright
Spectra Logic has unveiled Spectra Verde DPE, a new shingled magnetic recording (SMR)-based NAS disk platform designed to provide high-density bulk storage for reliable, high-capacity digital preservation
A new major release of the parallel file system BeeGFS has been announced by Fraunhofer ITWM and ThinkParQ
Tom Wilkie looks at some issues of life and death that will be discussed at the forthcoming ISC Cloud and Big Data conference in Frankfurt
No supercomputer runs real applications faster than five percent of its design speed. Robert Roe and Tom Wilkie report on recalibrating expectations of exascale and on efforts to tune software to run faster
Tom Wilkie reports on how Chinas commercial supercomputer manufacturers are seeking export markets with the support of their Government
Robert Roe interviews MathWorks Loren Dean, on the use of AI in modelling and simulation
Every device needs to work seamlessly in its operating environment. But when that environment is a human body, things get complicated.
Christian Marcazzo, general manager at IDBS, highlights trends in life sciences research and development.
Data is a company’s biggest asset, yet for any organisation, keeping a handle on the potentially vast volumes and diversity of data that are generated can represent a considerable issue.
Rob Lalonde, Univa’s cloud VP general manager, considers the unique challenges posed by HPC
Deep learning has seen a huge rise in popularity over the last five years in both enterprise and scientific applications.
HPC users are increasingly turning to cloud technologies due to their flexibility and scalability, allowing them to quickly change the size of their workloads, adopt new technologies in a small testing environment and to help to increase the agility of a company working across multiple sites, or
