Issue 153 April/May 2017 CONTENTS
High-performance computing Managing your supercomputer
Robert Roe explores the tools and soſtware that help HPC users manage supercomputing resources more effectively
Opening up to innovation
Adrian Giordani investigates the development of carbon nanotubes to produce future semi-conductor technologies
Call for grant entrants
Digital Science is calling for scientists to apply for funding under the company's Catalyst Grant
Laboratory informatics Alcohol and analysis
Te use of informatics is crucial all the way through the process of brewing, writes Sophia Ktori
Man/machine synergy
Robert Roe discovers that the future of drug development will increasingly rely on advanced soſtware tools
Informatics news Applications From atoms to airplanes
Gemma church learns that aerospace simulation focuses on large-scale product development and also on fine-grain simulations
Driving change
Robert Roe takes another look at industrial vehicles and the benefits of applying the latest simulation technologies
Heads up for ATC Europe 2017
A look forward to the 9th European Altair Technology Conference, which will be held in Germany in June
Resources Suppliers' directory
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ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT
With the future of processing technologies reliant on the development of ever-smaller transistors, processor manufacturers are struggling to shrink designs further as we reach the apparent material limits of silicon-based processing technology. While improvements will still be made in the coming years, they are becoming hugely expensive and time-consuming. Tis challenge is driving the development
of more exotic computing technologies such as carbon nanotube-based transistors as Adrian Giordani explains on page 10. On page 4 we take a look at the management of HPC systems, from installation and maintenance to the soſtware used to manage HPC clusters. On page 18, Sophia Ktori explores the use of
informatics soſtware in the brewing industry – one of the lesser known applications of informatics soſtware. In this arena, standard LIMS tools compete with and bespoke soſtware options specifically designed to analyse and report on data produced to monitor brewing processes. On page 22 we explore the future of drug development and its increasing reliance on sophisticated soſtware tools to analyse and predict patterns in hugely complex data sets. Te aerospace industry was an early adopter of
simulation technology, and there is a continuing need for modelling and simulation tools as companies compete in this highly regulated market. Engineers are now using multi-scale and multi-fidelity models to optimise the performance of components and meet strict safety regulations. Finally, on page 30 we take another look at the development of industrial vehicles in a follow- up to the feature article in the last issue of this magazine.
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