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Open Source Spotlight - Yabi: Bringing drag-and-drop to supercomputers
Supercomputers are powerful tools for scientists. They are also very expensive, so wasted time can mean a lot of wasted resources. But making the most efficient use of them is not the easiest proposition in the world; it's not just a case of clicking a button to analyse a protein. However, fitting out the world of supercomputers with a user-friendly, web-based interface is the focus of an open source project based at Western Australia's Murdoch University.
By Rohan Pearce | 27 April, 2012 09:50
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IBM IOD 2011: IBM launches Watson-like software for healthcare
IBM has released new predictive analytics software for the management of patient data in the healthcare industry, following the company's Watson supercomputer partnership with American health insurance company WellPoint.
By Chloe Herrick | 26 October, 2011 18:35
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Climate science chewing up supercomputing resources
An "infinite" demand for Australia’s supercomputing resources could threaten the quality of climate change science if more high performance computing isn’t found, a leading academic in the field has warned.
By Tim Lohman | 05 September, 2011 15:00
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CSIRO sourcing hardware for Pawsey SKA supercomputing environment
The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) has announced that it will shortly move toward the procurement phase of its multi-stage petascale and real-time supercomputing Pawsey Centre project.
By Tim Lohman | 18 May, 2011 09:53
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10,000-core Linux supercomputer built in Amazon cloud
High-performance computing expert Jason Stowe recently asked two of his engineers a simple question: Can you build a 10,000-core cluster in the cloud?
By Jon Brodkin | 07 April, 2011 06:47
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