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
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
