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LEADER Contents Tech focus: Cooling


Increasingly power-hungry and high-density processors are driving the growth of immersion cooling technology, finds Robert Roe


Memory


Robert Roe takes a look at the NextGenIO project to see how memory technology for HPC is overcoming application bottlenecks


HPC predictions Green AI Cloud drives computing research 12


Laurence Horrocks-Barlow, technical director of OCF, gives his predictions for HPC in 2020


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Tate Cantrell, CTO at Verne Global, comments on the cost of the AI computing revolution


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Cloud research tools provide a platform for scientific research by providing fast access to bare-metal resources, writes Robert Roe


Laboratory informatics AI developments in clinical diagnostics


Modelling and simulation FEA


Resources News


A round-up of the latest news stories in scientific computing Suppliers’ directory


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Robert Roe Editor


High performance computing European HPC tools


Robert Roe talks to Antonio Peña, EPEEC project coordinator, about progress on a European programming framework for HPC


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When the going gets tough...


It is likely to be a difficult few months for many businesses, not just those that are in scientific computing. Hopefully, Scientific Computing World can provide some distraction, or at least some news of scientific research that can help to pass the time. I hope that all of our readers are safe, and that you are able to continue your work or research as soon as possible. In this month’s HPC content, there are


several articles looking at the impact of new hardware and computing tools impact on energy efficiency and the sustainability of datacentres and HPC installations. This begins on page 4, with an interview with EPEEC project coordinator Antonio Peña about a framework for HPC tools that will deliver programmability for exascale systems.


This month the tech focus looks 18


Sophia Ktori discusses an autonomous artificial intelligence (AI) and the convergence of clinical AI and wearable technology


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Robert Roe takes a look at advances and trends in the use of FEA software and how it is being applied in real-world applications


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www.scientific-computing.com | @scwmagazine @scwmagazine Spring 2020 Scientific Computing World 3


at cooling technology, starting on page 6. We look at the development of cooling technology and the impact that increasingly dense solutions for HPC and AI have on the development of cooling technology. On page 10 we revisit the NextGenIO project, which aims to develop memory systems to overcome HPC application bottlenecks. Laurence Horrocks-Barlow, technical


director of OCF, gives his predictions for HPC in 2020 on page 12 while Tate Cantrell, CTO of Verne Global, discusses the impact an environmental cost of AI on page 14. Cloud research is the focus on page 16 as we take a look at a recent webcast which highlights the development of cloud infrastructure at Oracle. Laboratory informatics coverage begins on page 18 as Sophia Ktori discusses an autonomous artificial intelligence (AI) and the convergence of clinical AI and wearable technology in two different examples of AI in clinical diagnostics. On page 22 Robert Roe takes a look at advances and trends in the use of FEA software and how it is being applied in real-world applications.


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