In conversation with Tom Wilkie, the deputy designer of Tianhe-2 spoke warmly of the benefits of peaceful and open international cooperation in using supercomputers for science
The XSEDE User Portal Project has introduced two mobile apps to aid researchers in making better use of XSEDE resources and services
Fivetech has announced that its SMT Nut 82 series is to provide a complete product line for all thread sizes, which it believes will gradually replace traditional assembly
IBM has announced that it is now offering Nvidia Tesla K80 dual-GPU accelerators on bare metal cloud servers
Allinea Software has released version 5.1 of its development tool suite and performance analysis tools, with a focus on improving the energy efficiency of application software
Robert Roe investigates how accelerators are driving the design of new architectures in HPC to solve the challenges of exascale computing
Software approaches to energy efficiency in HPC may yield unexpected improvements in the hardware of next-generation mobile phone networks, Tom Wilkie discovers
Tom Wilkie admires the ingenuity of the engineers who are devising so many ways to keep supercomputers cool
Adrian Giordani asks what benchmarks should be applied as the nature of supercomputing changes on the way to exascale
From the PRACEdays15 conference in Dublin, Tom Wilkie and Robert Roe report on the inadequacies of Open Source and commercial software, support for Irish industry, and HPC policies in Europe and Japan
Elsevier and ExactCure recently announced a collaboration to develop and offer to hospitals – without charge – drug-specific exposure models for 20 already approved medicines that are being tested as potential treatments for Covid-19.
With the world’s focus on the COVID-19 pandemic, LIMS providers are working to develop solutions tailored to assist in the testing and management of virus samples.
Researchers at Harvard Medical School (HMS) have released an open source drug discovery platform, VirtualFlow, that harnesses supercomputing power to screen potentially billions of small organic compound structures in parallel, in the hunt for promising new drug molecules.
When designing a component or system, where do you start? In days gone by, designers would literally go back to the drawing board, using their experience and expertise to develop a new concept.
Effective utilisation of computing tools is critical to both AI and HPC research, with recent projects in both fields highlighting the scientific benefit of carefully managing resources.
Advances in computer vision combined with AI computing are helping pathologists to more accurately identify subtypes of cancer - leading to better treatments for patients, explains Dan Ruderman.
