Issue 124 June/July 2012 CONTENTS
Laboratory Informatics News and products
Food safety first
Beth Sharp reports on the food and drink industry’s use of informatics Statistical Science
Statistical tools in genetics
Te explosion of data set sizes within the field of genetic analysis attracts the attention of Felix Grant
High-Performance Computing News and products
ISC’12 show preview
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Exhibitors share what they have in store for this year’s International Supercomputing Conference ISC’12 interview
ISC’s Nages Sieslack offers a behind-the-scenes view of ISC’12 Bath your computer in baby oil
How can we improve energy efficiency in high-performance computing? Tom Wilkie investigates the issues
A blending of strengths Paul Schreier explores the widespread use of heterogeneous systems
Modelling and Engineering News and products
Going through the process
Tere are many challenges that come with mapping production processes. Beth Sharp speaks to the industry to find out more
We need to talk about mobile phone design Tom Wilkie explores the world of design soſtware, as applied to electronics
Resources Suppliers’ directory
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Hot topics in HPC
Less than one hour ago, I finished recording SCW's first webcast – which, by the time you read this, should be available for viewing at
www.scientific-computing. com/webcasts. Including webcasts as part of our offering has been something that the team and I have wished to do for some time and when it came to determining the first topic, the decision was an easy one. Regular readers will be familiar with the
extensive coverage we give to the issues within high-performance computing; most notably those arising from the push towards the next generation of computing capabilities. With that in mind, our first webcast is devoted to 'Green HPC'. Presenting their views on the energy efficiency issues are Steve Scott, Nvidia; Bill Mannel, SGI; and Dona Crawford, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. I would like to take this opportunity to thank them for their contributions and to the webcast's sponsors: Nvidia, SGI and the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC). Log on and have a listen!
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