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DATA ANALYSIS: FOOD
Food for a future
Science and scientific computing can buy us time to cope with the demographic timebomb of population growth, says Felix Grant
DATA MANAGEMENT: CROs
All 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
HPC: GPU PROCESSING
The 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 processing, this branch is poised to make major market inroads. Paul Schreier examines what's behind this upcoming jump in performance, and its implications
HPC: WEATHER AND CLIMATE
Let's talk about the weather
Stephen Mounsey discovers how high performance computing contributes to atmospheric science and improves the accuracy of weather forecasts
HPC DIRECTOR
Towards 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 exascale
MODELLING: ANTENNA DESIGN
Software 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 improved to aid them along every step of the development and implementation trail
INSIDE VIEW
Living 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
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