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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
16 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.
China makes mark on Top500
14 June 2010
While Jaguar at Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility retained top spot in the latest Top500 list, it was a new entry from China at No. 2 that caught the eye
The hidden depth of Microsoft's Technical Computing Initiative
2 June 2010
Microsoft has launched its Technical Computing Initiative with promises of revolutionising the way HPC is used by scientists, engineers, and analysts, but just how does the company intend to achieve this?
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LIMS event benefits both user and vendor
27 May 2010
EGI promises abundant computing power for all
7 April 2010
HPC to bounce back in 2010
22 February 2010
Jaguar replaces Roadrunner as world's most powerful supercomputer
1 December 2009
HPC User Forum discusses problems with exascale computing
12 October 2009
Researcher wins award for analytical work in field of metagenomics
1 October 2009
LabVantage acquires SQL*LIMS business
1 September 2009
Sandia sees data management challenges spiral
4 August 2009
Top500 list sees new supercomputers enter the fray
1 July 2009
Microsoft takes life seriously
4 June 2009
ISC'09 focuses on climate research, aeronautics and cloud computing
1 May 2009
Simulations reveal importance of communication during disease outbreaks
2 April 2009
LIMS open community launched
3 March 2009
More cores means slower supercomputing
20 January 2009
FPGA technology provides boost to proteomics research
19 December 2008
Cutty Sark's high-tech salvation
16 December 2008
Accessibility and green issues dominate SC08
3 December 2008
Microsoft dives into cloud computing with Windows Azure
30 October 2008
Fast cars and supercomputers
29 October 2008
Major conference programme at SC08
22 October 2008
Virtual heart developed as revolutionary cardiac teaching tool
29 September 2008
Researcher on virtual patient simulator wins international computing prize
23 September 2008
Coping with DNA reconstruction
15 August 2008
Edinburgh hosts Mathematical and Theoretical Biology conference
1 August 2008
ISC'08 boasts record attendance figures
3 July 2008
Climate change challenges HPC
20 June 2008
Supercomputing tech accelerates science
19 June 2008
HPC bones up on medical simulations
18 June 2008
Cardiff University gets HPC Centre of Excellence
3 June 2008
Customer conference maps future for LIMS
28 May 2008
DEISA symposium talks HPC e-Infrastructures
20 May 2008
Tetra Pak packs a HPC punch for fluid simulations
10 April 2008
HPC centre lets scientists try-before-they-buy
10 April 2008
What to expect from Analytica 2008
26 March 2008
Why supercomputing the stars needn’t cost the Earth
25 March 2008
Virtual human used to screen HIV drugs
7 February 2008
Maplesoft founds physical modelling think-tank
24 January 2008
World’s biggest genomics project announced
24 January 2008
UK national supercomputer unveiled
17 January 2008
Advanced imaging provides more detailed heart simulations
14 January 2008
Laboratory Informatics goes online
7 January 2008
Cost-effective EDMS helps small pharmas with electronic submissions
7 January 2008
Streamlined data analysis finds threats on the runway
16 November 2007
New agreement improves HPC simulations
23 October 2007
Distribution and development agreement for informatics products
1 October 2007
HPC chips work behind the scenes
25 September 2007
Video games increase US homeland security
3 September 2007
Symyx acquires MDL software in $123m cash transaction
17 August 2007
Grid computing reveals secrets about anthrax bacterium
3 August 2007
Education blog launched on Scientific Computing World website
5 June 2007
Not just semantics
17 May 2007
Bioinformatics bridges gap between disciplines
30 April 2007
Systems biology spreads across Europe
23 March 2007
HEC hits the UK
23 February 2007
ERP competition heating up
6 February 2007
New computational research centre in France
17 January 2007
Centre for Integrative Systems Biology appoints new director
18 December 2006
The advent of desktop supercomputing
28 November 2006
Thermo expands presence in the Middle East
3 November 2006
Workflow language helps predict climate change
25 October 2006
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