The EU has launched a mega “ science cloud ”, intended to better exploit the continent's academic research via big data.
The initiative aims to overhaul current “insufficient and...
By Adriana Hamacher
21/04/16
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The chips are nearly down for Moore’s law but what will take its place? The laws of physics decree that performance gains cannot be maintained by shrinking processes for ever and quantum...
By Adriana Hamacher
21/04/16
621 Views
High Performance Computing (HPC) is a powerful tool that can help Industry and SMEs to develop innovative solutions, reduce cost and decrease time to market for products and services. However...
By Simon Yarwood
26/02/16
1117 Views
UK uber-chip designer, ARM, is at the heart of a European Commission-funded consortium of 12 technology companies and research institutions building an exascale supercomputer prototype.
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By Adriana Hamacher
11/02/16
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Solutions for Information and Communication Technologies – Horizon2020 Funding for Big Data
We are pleased to announce the provisional agenda for the ...
By Emma Bortnik
20/11/15
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A new cutting edge supercomputing facility and a strategic partnership between the Alan Turing institute and Intel are helping to secure the UK’s future in supercomputing and Big Data.
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By Adriana Hamacher
20/11/15
1078 Views
The aim of the European Commission's recent Horizon 2020 call for proposals "Towards exascale high performance computing" was to attract projects that can achieve...
By Adriana Hamacher
09/10/15
1208 Views
Adept, an EU funded programme which seeks to address the challenge of energy-efficient use of parallel technologies, has released its first set of benchmarks to characterise the power...
By Adriana Hamacher
23/09/15
400 Views
A multi-million-euro Horizon2020 project using state-of-the art methods to decipher the molecular drivers of health, ageing and disease was launched last week.
Dubbed,...
By Adriana Hamacher
16/09/15
630 Views
A fully reprogrammable optical chip developed by researchers from the University of Bristol in the UK and Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT) in Japan has been hailed as a major step forward...
By Adriana Hamacher
27/08/15
695 Views
The UK's Hartree Centre has released a new animated video showing how they're working on producing more energy efficient computers.
Addressing, first of all, what...
By Adriana Hamacher
14/08/15
459 Views
President Obama has committed the United States to a five-year National Strategic Computing Initiative (NSCI) to promote high-performance computing (HPC).
In a move that...
By Adriana Hamacher
05/08/15
538 Views
The European Union has announced funding for research into the best way to set up a unified European open science cloud.
‘We are preparing a call for a European science cloud...
By Adriana Hamacher
30/07/15
549 Views
UK-based startup Iceotope has developed what it claims is the first liquid cooled high-performance network and interconnect switch for high performance computing (HPC).
The...
By Adriana Hamacher
22/07/15
381 Views
British aviation and aerospace firm Rolls-Royce has become the first company to join UK education body Jisc's high performance computing (HPC) brokerage scheme and so access supercomputing...
By Adriana Hamacher
13/07/15
624 Views
An ambitious project to map the UK’s Knowledge Landscape is being undertaken by the Council for Science and Technology (CST). Part of the strategy has been a series of seminars, including one...
By Adriana Hamacher
08/07/15
1158 Views
Jisc are working with Innovate UK's e-Infrastructure Special Interest Group to identify blockers and enablers that would help UK businesses to fully exploit advanced IT such as high performance...
By Simon Yarwood
03/07/15
706 Views
“A confluence of trends and technologies promises to reshape the way things are made,” write Cornelius Baur and Dominik Wee of McKinsey & Co. Industry 4.0. will herald a new...
By Adriana Hamacher
02/07/15
943 Views
Finding ways of dealing with waste heat from data centres and supercomputers has been a hot topic over the past few years in more ways than one. Now, a Dutch company is finding a use for this...
By Adriana Hamacher
26/06/15
382 Views
A transformation in the UK’s approach to building numeracy, statistics and data analysis skills is called for if the country is to fulfil its potential as a world leader in ‘big data’, says a...
By Adriana Hamacher
26/06/15
443 Views
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