The implications of the recent announcements about Exascale technology go far beyond HPC. Tom Wilkie considers the implications
End-user scientists and engineers fear the complexity of running jobs in HPC. But there are software tool-kits available to help, as Tom Wilkie discovers
The era of data-centric HPC is upon us. Robert Roe investigates how data storage companies are rising to the challenge
The way Europe has joined up its networks not only supports supercomputing on the continent, but also offers a model for international cooperation that might have lessons for the development of next-generation technology, as Tom Wilkie discovers
Lindsay Botten and Neil Stringfellow explain how Australia has developed a national HPC strategy to address the countrys unique challenges in science, climate, and economic development
John Barr surveys the technologies that will underpin the next generation of HPC processors and finds that software, not hardware, holds the key.
Concerns about energy-efficient computing are driving innovation in cooling technologies, as Robert Roe discovers
HPC is important for economic development according to several recent reports and, Robert Roe reports, announcements about next-generation US HPC systems could be made at SC14
Engineers and industry will adopt HPC in the cloud, if it is packaged up for them in a simple container, argues UberClouds Wolfgang Gentzsch
Computing in the cloud could be seductive for scientists and engineers, but Tom Wilkie finds that there are still problems to be overcome
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
