Issue 140 February/March 2015 CONTENTS Laboratory Informatics Informatics tools to aid innovation
Sophia Ktori investigates the soſtware making the discovery scientist's life easier
Profile Abbott Informatics
Tom Wilkie talks to Simon Wood about change and continuity Preview Showtime beckons
A look ahead to Pittcon, Paperless Lab Academy, and Smartlab Exchange
High-Performance Computing Not a remote prospect
Remote visualisation is at the intersection of cloud, big data, and HPC. Tom Wilkie looks to the future of HPC
Opening the gates for FPGAs
In the first of a series on future hardware, Robert Roe discovers that a soſtware standard is making FPGAs more attractive
Applications Simulation and safety
Integrated simulation soſtware is the only way to cope with fragmented automobile safety standards. Robert Roe reports
Products A selection of the latest application soſtware releases
Resources Suppliers' directory
From cradle to beyond the grave Robert Roe finds new products for product lifecycle management soſtware
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Innovation, innovation, innovation
Tis first issue of 2015 sees Scientific Computing World enter its twenty-first year of publication and there is no shortage of new things to write about. Although there are still obstacles to be
overcome, laboratory informatics is making inroads in the discovery laboratory, as Sophia Ktori reports on page 4 and there is scope in the healthcare and clinical marketplace too, Simon Wood from Abbott Informatics told Tom Wilkie (page 12). Laboratories in the Mediterranean countries too could benefit from such soſtware and therefore the second Paperless Lab Academy is taking place in Barcelona this year. Scientific Computing World is a media sponsor. Te first event, last year, was a breath of fresh air, bringing new insight and new thinking to the world of laboratory informatics. Scientific Computing World will be distributing a Spanish-language edition of its highly valued reference work, Building a Smart Laboratory, at this year’s meeting. Te pace of innovation continues in high-
performance computing. New types of processors including field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) are being tried out, as they consume very little energy. Teir stock has risen since they have become easier to program, as Robert Roe describes on page 26. Data sets, whether in business or in science and engineering, continue to get larger and larger, so putting computation and data together is becoming an imperative – which creates the demand for remote visualisation discussed by Tom Wilkie on page 20. To improve the utility of simulation to
car manufacturers, soſtware companies are interlinking their packages in a process that, somewhat surprisingly, is partly driven by the disparate sets of regulations governing emissions and safety around the world as Robert Roe discovered (page 31). Te year is off to a good start. Tere will be even
better to come.
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