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HPC

French computers maintain British atomic weapons

1 September 2010
Bull is to provide the United Kingdom’s Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) with a third large-scale supercomputer system.

INDUSTRY

CambridgeSoft and KNIME.com collaborate

1 September 2010

INDUSTRY

Partnership offers HTS services in Japan

1 September 2010

PEOPLE

Adept Scientific appoints new managing director

1 September 2010

INDUSTRY

IDBS reports 20 per cent growth

31 August 2010

HPC

Cosmology and solar research turn to SGI

31 August 2010

INDUSTRY

National Instruments hails NIWeek as a success

17 August 2010

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News features

Europe under-investing in HPC according to EU Commission-funded report

16 August 2010
Research for an European Commission-funded report has found that Europe has under-invested in HPC over the last five years, while the investments of other nations have grown, despite the recession

Sink or swim - giraffes take to the water

News image16 June 2010
Computer simulations have been used to prove, contrary to popular belief, that giraffes can swim, although they wouldn't be very good at it

Digging into data in new ways

14 June 2010
What do you do with a million books? Or a million newspaper pages? Or a million art images? Alastair Dunning, programme manager for digitisation at JISC in the UK, discusses how new large-scale data analysis techniques of many different types of data sets can give researchers new insight.