LEADER Contents Cool runnings
Keely Portway speaks to cooling experts to find out what is driving the latest innovations
Impacting future processor designs
Adrian Giordani on recent vulnerabilities in modern CPUs Twenty years of the OpenMP API
New supercomputer aims to simplify use of HPC
Robert Roe talks to Southampton University’s Oz Parchment about the decisions behind installing the latest HPC system
Laboratory informatics The quest for quality
Internet interactions boost better biology
A web-based tool to promote the sharing of research reagents and information can help reproducibility in life sciences, argues Isobel Atkin
Managing a new era in laboratory development
Modelling and simulation Electronics everywhere
Resources News
l Researchers develop new lithium-air battery design l Major upgrade to UK environmental science
l supercomputer JASMIN
Agilent and Imperial College London agree collaboration Suppliers’ directory
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calendar sees the action moving to the Slovenian capital city of Ljubljana, which will host PRACEdays18. The event will gather the main HPC stakeholders in Europe and will offer a wide variety of workshops covering a number of application areas where supercomputers are key. We look forward to seeing many of you there!
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