Counting the cost of energy
Felix Grant assesses the applications of data analysis software in the energy sector
View ArticleLiving in a parallel world
Cleve Moler, co-founder of The MathWorks, believes the benefits of parallel computing should be open to all scientists and engineers, regardless of their expertise as computer programmers
View ArticleSoftware signals the way
With wireless capabilities being built into an enormous variety of products and gadgets, the challenges facing antenna designers are greater than ever. Paul Schreier examines how modelling software has...
View ArticleTowards exascale
Arthur 'Buddy' Bland, project director for the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, describes the rise from terascale to petascale computing and the road to...
View ArticleLet's talk about the weather
Stephen Mounsey discovers how high performance computing contributes to atmospheric science and improves the accuracy of weather forecasts
View ArticleThe GPU jump
General-purpose graphical processing units (GPGPUs) have been making inroads into HPC applications, but with the release of chips optimised for scientific computations rather than just graphics...
View ArticleAll part of the service
Contract laboratories must constantly adapt to meet the requirements of their clients and employ flexible data management solutions to do so, as Greg Blackman finds out
View ArticleFood for a future
Science and scientific computing can buy us time to cope with the demographic timebomb of population growth, says Felix Grant
View ArticleThe Company Lunch Table 2.0
Frank Brown, chief science officer at Accelrys, believes the best research emerges from collaboration
View ArticleFinding the 'science' in GIS
While popular services such as Google Earth and Bing Maps have made basic geographical information system functionality well-known, scientific investigations need considerably more power. Paul Schreier...
View ArticleThe ins and outs of HPC
Lee Ward, principal member of technical staff at Sandia National Laboratories, tackles HPC-related IO improvements to multiple supercomputing projects
View ArticleA picture says a thousand words
Visualisation is a vital component of many HPC applications, but rendering huge datasets is no easy task, as Stephen Mounsey discovers
View ArticleUnbounded clusters
Especially with the advent of cloud computing, virtualisation and the increasing popularity of GPUs, what a physical computing system looks like is very fluid. Paul Schreier looks into how vendors of...
View ArticleMaterial values
Felix Grant on the application of statistical packages to materials science
View ArticleA booming banking sector
Biobanks have their own unique requirements in terms of data management and, with increasing amounts of molecular data being generated around biobank samples, sophisticated informatics solutions are...
View ArticleCollaboration all the way along the value chain
Max Carnecchia, CEO, Biovia, Dassault Systèmes, believes that the convergence of scientific and enterprise software will continue and that science-based organisations are becoming more social and...
View ArticleDynamic approach to information retrieval
New technology alone does not guarantee success, according to Nick Townsend, managing director of LabWare Europe. ‘Vision’ must be backed by products of real substance
View ArticleTransforming life sciences with data and discipline
Kim Shah, director of marketing and new business development for the informatics business at Thermo Fisher Scientific, believes that businesses will become agile only through integration, innovation,...
View ArticleFrom the laboratory to the world
Technologies developed outside the laboratory and changes in the way global companies do business are transforming laboratory informatics, according to Tom Wilkie
View ArticleShould we write out laboratory labels by hand?
A globally harmonised system for labelling all containers in the laboratory, drawing the information from the laboratory informatics system, would be a very good thing, surely? Not so, says Gloria Metrick
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