Scientific Computing World - News

Development time of GM hybrid vehicles cut with simulation tools

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0000

General Motors (GM) has developed its Two-Mode Hybrid powertrain control system 24 months earlier than expected using maths and simulation-based software tools

Italy joins PRACE as principal partner

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Italy has joined PRACE, the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe, as one of its principal partners. The representative PRACE partner site from Italy is Cineca

Chemical company to implement R&D workflow system

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0000

China Petroleum and Chemical Corporation (Sinopec), an integrated energy and chemical company, has signed an agreement with Symyx to implement its Zeolite Synthesis Workflow system for research in energy and chemical development

Cerno Bioscience and Agilent Technologies partner

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Cerno Bioscience and Agilent Technologies have partnered to provide Cerno's MassWorks calibration software to Agilent GC/MSD ChemStation users

Crash test simulation speed increased

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0000

An analysis process that reduces the time taken to run virtual crash tests from hours to minutes has been developed by Altair Engineering in close collaboration with Intel

Wipro Technologies partners with Microsoft in HPC market

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Wipro Technologies, the global IT services business of Wipro, has partnered with Microsoft to address the growing high performance computing (HPC) and parallel computing segment

New Kazakh supercomputing centre planned

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Russian supercomputer company T-Platforms, government of Kazakhstan, and Microsoft have signed a memorandum of cooperation in order to build a supercomputer technology centre in Kazakhstan

Maplesoft works with MAA to deliver maths test suite

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Maplesoft has released the latest version of the Maplesoft-MAA Placement Test Suite, developed by the Mathematical Association of America and delivered via the Maple TA online testing tool

Chris Denly joins Adept Scientific

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Chris Denly has been appointed as sales manager, maths and simulation at Adept Scientific

Paediatric hospital studies advanced with translational research solution

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0000

The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), a leading paediatric hospital and research facility, has implemented the InforSense-based translational research solution from IDBS to advance the understanding of complex genetic disease

CAE simulates drop tests of hazardous material containers

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0000

ATR Ingenierie, a French engineering service provider, has implemented the CAE suite HyperWorks from Altair Engineering to streamline the company's engineering capabilities for projects within its mechanical engineering division

Billboards judged safe from supercomputer simulations

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0000

The safety factor of a number of LED billboards in the centre of Moscow has been calculated using supercomputing, with simulations made of the aerodynamic flow around the billboards

ffA and OpenSpirit enter into business partner agreement

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0000

ffA and OpenSpirit have entered into a business partner agreement to provide multi-vendor connectivity to users of ffA's 3D seismic analysis products using the OpenSpirit software development kit

Good Products to hold Electronic Document Management summit

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Good Products will be holding its inaugural Electronic Document Management (EDM) summit in London, UK on November 24, 2009

CLC bio expands Japanese distribution

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0000

CLC bio has expanded the distribution of its next generation sequencing solutions into the Japanese market, appointing Filgen as its reseller in Japan and David Leangen as CEO of CLC bio Japan