Felix Grant on the latest version of Wolfram's ever-popular package, which pays heed to the growing requirement for parallel computing.
Reviews
10 September 2008
Felix Grant reviews how Endnote's latest move into the research information arena.
12 August 2008
Felix Grant updates his review of GenStat, the statistics package now at v11
12 August 2008
Felix Grant updates his review of this statistics package, now at release 2008.6
30 July 2008
Felix Grant reviews two related statistical products that share a useful core of functional equivalence, but differ in application.
21 May 2008
Felix Grant looks into the latest version of the essential maths software for scientific applications.
07 May 2008
Wavemetrics’ data analysis and visualisation program comes under the scrutiny of Felix Grant.
14 April 2008
Felix Grant looks at how the Asus EEE PC could impact individual scientific computing...
26 March 2008
Felix Grant looks at how old-timer Micro Saint Sharp has changed over the years and what its latest version can offer users now.
27 February 2008
Felix Grant reviews Elsevier 2collab - the social networking site designed for researchers.
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As not only the HPC industry but the larger computing ecosystem tries to overcome the slowdown and eventual end of transistor scaling described by Moore’s Law, scientists and researchers are implementing programmes that will define the technologies and new materials needed to supplement, or repla
Architectural specialisation is one option to continue to improve performance beyond the limits imposed by the slow down in Moore’s Law.
As the complexity of both HPC hardware and the challenges that scientists are trying to solve using HPC systems increases, ensuring a system is utilised efficiently is necessary to deliver a computing service with value for money and a high research output.
With data rates increasing and more complex challenges arising in life sciences, Panasas’ Jim Donovan and Dale Brantly discuss the benefits of using HPC for these workloads