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How Can HPC Best Help Pharma R&D?
Dec. 3, 2015
In this special guest feature from Scientific Computing World, Richard Holland from the Pistoia Alliance writes that high-performance computing can help pharmaceutical companies cut the time they spend on research and development, but HPC is not a panacea and its deployment needs to be nuanced and appropriate.



China Moves up in TOP500; SC Kicks off in Austin
Nov. 19, 2015

<iframe frameborder="no" height="166" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/233710160&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false" width="100%"></iframe>This Week In HPC Episode 95, Special Edition featuring Addison Snell and Michael Feldman.


Chinas Tianhe-2 Supercomputer Maintains Top Spot on List of Worlds TOP500 Supercomputers
Nov. 16, 2015

CELLE, Germany; BERKELEY, Calif.; and KNOXVILLE, Tenn.— For the sixth consecutive time, Tianhe-2, a supercomputer developed by China’s National University of Defense Technology, has retained its position as the world’s No. 1 system, according to the 46th edition of the twice-yearly TOP500 list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers. Overall, change at the top of the list is again minor, with only two new systems in the Top 10 -- the Trinity supercomputer built by Cray and jointly deployed by the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Los Alamos and Sandia national laboratories, and the Hazel-Hen system built by Cray and installed …