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
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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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