LEADER Contents Tech focus: Processors
Architectural specialisation is one way to generate more performance from processor technologies, writes Robert Roe
Maximising resources for HPC Vectorisation of a stencil-based code Storage in life sciences
Panasas’ Jim Donovan and Dale Brantly discuss the importance of choosing storage technology that can meet the demanding requirements of some life science workloads
Laboratory informatics The case for cloud and SaaS
Clouds on the horizon Laboratory in the cloud
Sophia Ktori discusses the implementation of cloud and SaaS technology in modern laboratories
Modelling and simulation The need for speed
Simulation is creating widespread change across the automotive industry, writes Gemma Church
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Efficient utilisation of a HPC system requires careful consideration of hardware choices and the right software tools to make users’ jobs easier, Robert Roe discovers
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Intel’s Cedric Andreolli, Jim Cownie and Henry Gabb describe the use of Intel Advisor to vectorise a stencil-based code
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High performance computing Computing challenges at ISC
Robert Roe talks to ISC keynote speakers ahead of the ISC event in June
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Continental Computing
The month of June is a busy one for Scientific Computing World and the HPC industry, as Teratec Forum and ISC High Performance both take place this month, in Paris and Frankfurt respectively. Teratec is a focus of the HPC calendar,
particularly in Europe, as there will be discussion on European HPC strategy and direction, as well as speakers from major industry manufacturers such as BMW and members of the French government. As one of the largest global HPC events,
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SaaS technologies in the cloud free up IT teams to focus on strategic priorites, writes Brady Haggstrom
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John Harman, senior product manager at Thermo Fisher Scientific, highlights the benefits of implementing a cloud-based infrastructure for the pharmaceutical industry.
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ISC will showcase the HPC industry with an exhibition that runs in parallel to the four- day conference programme. Coverage of ISC begins on page 4 with interviews with two of the keynote speakers: John Shalf, department head for computer science at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and Ivo Sbalzarini, chair of scientific computing for systems biology at Technical University (TU) Dresden. On page 8, processors are the
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technology focus for the June issue. This piece looks at the use of architectural specialisation introduced by the interview with John Shalf. Using FPGAs for some early modelling, this concept looks to develop HPC hardware for specific architectures or algorithms. Another important factor that governs
HPC performance is the efficient utilisation of HPC resources, which is discussed on page 12. There is also a guest article from Intel on page 16, which looks at the use of free tools developed to help HPC users optimise code through vectorisation. For laboratory informatics we have Thermo Fisher Scientific’s John Harman talking about the use of cloud in the pharmaceutical industry on page 18, with further discussion on this topic in the cloud and SaaS feature, written by Sophia Ktori, on page 20. Lastly, on page 26 Gemma Church
discusses how competition is driving the rise in modelling and simulation tools used in the automotive industry.
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