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DATA ANALYSIS: INFORMATION MINING
Burrowing into the bran tub
Felix Grant assesses statistical information mining techniques
GENOMICS
Gene genie
Greg Blackman on the laboratory informatics used in the rapidly evolving field of genomics
MODELLING: BIOLOGY
The computer as healer
The overriding goal of human biological modelling is to help us get healthy and keep us that way, and this can take shape in an immense variety of forms. Paul Schreier examines some interesting projects where computer models play a key role
HPC TECHNOLOGY: STORAGE
Feeds and speeds
The potential bottleneck in many HPC systems is moving data between disks and memory. Great progress in hardware and parallel file systems has been made, and Paul Schreier takes a look at what we can expect before long
HPC: ASTROPHYSICS AND COSMOLOGY
The universe in a C Shell
What simulation could be more impressive than that of the entire universe? With only four per cent of the cosmos even visible to observers, and 13.7 billion years of history behind us, there is much for these simulations to show, as Stephen Mounsey discovers
HPC DIRECTOR
Onwards to exascale
Dona Crawford, associate director for computation at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, is responsible for the laboratory's computing infrastructure and the HPC systems that serve research programmes from national security to materials science, energy, and climate change
INSIDE VIEW
Separating hype from reality
Simon Wood, director of marketing and training for Starlims, evaluates the pros and cons of Software as a Service (SaaS) for laboratory informatics
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