The Wednesday keynote at this years ISC High Performance conference by HPC veteran Dr. Thomas Sterling promises to be an enlightening and lively presentation of the HPC year in review. And if previous years are a guide, Dr. Sterling will deliver it with the unique humor and style that has become his trademark.

Cancer researchers are using the Abel supercomputer at the University of Oslo in Norway to detect which versions of genes are only found in cancer cells. Every form of cancer, even every tumour, has its own distinct variants.

This Week In HPC Episode 65 featuring Addison Snell and Michael Feldman.

Just as Intel’s CEO Brian Krzanich opens the regular staff meetings before a dramatically reduced IDF2015 Shenzhen conference, it is a good time to review how government and enterprises don’t see eye to eye when it comes to strategic business.

This Week In HPC Episode 64 featuring Addison Snell and Michael Feldman.

Both the application of high-performance computing in the automotive industry and the challenges of trying to get better performance out of HPC systems will feature at this year’s ISC High Performance Computing conference to be held in Frankfurt, Germany, in July.

The Norwegian Academy of Sciences and Letters has decided to award the Abel Prize for 2015 to the American mathematicians John F. Nash Jr. and Louis Nirenberg for striking and seminal contributions to the theory of nonlinear partial differential equations and its applications to geometric analysis.

This Week In HPC Episode 63 featuring Addison Snell and Michael Feldman.

Getting a small group of human beings to Mars and back is no easy task, we learned at the recent GPU Technology Conference in San Jose hosted graphics chip and accelerator maker Nvidia.

Lenovo today announced the opening of the companys first global High Performance Computing (HPC) innovation centre, offering a permanent R&D and application benchmarking site as well as a new ecosystem of partners that will collaborate on projects to bring the commercial benefits of HPC to a broader spectrum of clients and workloads.