Scientific Computing World - Features

Down by the sea

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0100

Felix Grant fishes for data analysis applications among the mysteries of the deep

Fuelling the future

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0100

Greg Blackman looks at how data management software is used in the petrochemical industry

HPC colonises the desktop

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0100

Computers are continuing along their astounding path down the price/performance curve to the point where you can literally put the power of what we not long ago considered a supercomputer on or beside your desk in an office environment. Paul Schreier reviews some of these powerful systems

Saving lives with supercomputers

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0100

Stephen Mounsey looks at how HPC is transforming biology and medicine

Aerospace modelling is taking off

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0100

Aircraft are enormously sophisticated systems – and expensive, as well, so effective prototyping becomes a matter of survival. Paul Schreier investigates how CFD and other engineering software tools have become indispensable in optimising aircraft and for developing completely new concepts

The enterprise-level data delivery challenge

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0100

Dave Champagne, vice president and general manager of informatics at Thermo Fisher Scientific, on the task of interpreting laboratory data at enterprise level

Analysis is the mother of invention

Thu, 27 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0100

Felix Grant explores the role of statistical analysis in the field of invention

A taste for LIMS

Thu, 27 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0100

Greg Blackman looks at the role LIMS, as well as data management software as a whole, plays in putting food on our plates

Molecular alchemy

Thu, 27 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0100

Saving untold hours in the laboratory, molecular modelling software allows researchers to determine how to make useful changes to existing substances or make new ones. Paul Schreier takes a glimpse of the tools and techniques researchers are using to find the molecules that will bring us improved drugs and materials

Asking the big questions

Thu, 27 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0100

Stephen Mounsey finds out about the computing power behind some of the world's most ambitious scientific projects

Making the connection

Thu, 27 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0100

HPC system architects are increasingly turning to alternative interconnects such as InfiniBand to replace Ethernet in many situations. Paul Schreier examines what is driving this trend

Simulation through the years

Thu, 27 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0100

Bruce Klimpke, technical director of Integrated Engineering Software, looks at 25 years of simulation software

Data pharming

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0100

Greg Blackman looks at some of the current trends taking place in the pharmaceutical industry with regards to data management

Criminal patterns

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0100

Felix Grant finds statistical processes applied to the social sciences, and in particular, to crime

Drilling for fuel

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0100

HPC technology is aiding oil and gas companies locate hidden submarine reserves in a fraction of the time taken by previous methods, as Stephen Mounsey discovers