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| Back to the Future | The return of massively parallel systems
Rob Farber
In the 1980s, the scientific community faced the challenge of programming the massively parallel Thinking Machines supercomputers with 65,536 processors ...continue | | | | Is HPC Going Green? | Looking at how we can change the power equation
Horst D. Simon, Ph.D.
In the discussion of "The Greening of HPC — Will Power Consumption Become the Limiting Factor for Future Growth of HPC?", an international panel of experts will address the questions of what are the power limitations of current technology, and how can we change the equation to assure the future rapid growth of HPC performance without contributing even more to carbon emissions and global warming ...continue | | |
| 10 Mistakes to Avoid in Selecting and Managing LIMS and LI Software | Better to be safe than sorry — especially when ‘sorry' means a lot of time, energy and money lost
Gloria Metrick
If you have not yet selected your laboratory information management system or laboratory informatics product nor begun to manage it, this is your chance to learn from some of the mistakes of others ...continue | | | | NASCAR Comes to Market | A new respect for old skills
Randy C. Hice
I’m happy to report that my new exercise regimen is paying unimaginable dividends. I have been hopping up and down two flights of stairs in my home on one leg several dozen times a day ...continue | | |
| New Twists on RS232 Connectivity | Today’s solutions provide much greater flexibility and range than the original COM ports
Thomas Lutz
Lots of instruments still have RS232 outputs. However, most new PCs don’t ship with any pre-installed COM ports. Instead, they typically have several USB ports available and nothing else. The quick and dirty solution is to purchase add-on serial adapters that connect to the PC through a USB port ...continue | | | | Virtex-5 FXT | |
Virtex-5 FXT devices are FPGAs with up to two embedded PowerPC 440 processor blocks, high-speed RocketIO GTX transceivers and dedicated XtremeDSP ...continue | | |
| STATISTICA 8 High Performance Analytic Software Solutions | Menu-driven statistics on steroids (lots of steroids!)
John A. Wass, Ph.D.
Other than an extremely complete set of statistical routines, this software now offers very powerful data mining, customization, programming and Web features. This review covers the Desktop General and Industrial systems, as well as the Data Miner portion of the Enterprise System. ...continue | | | | Exploring MathWorld | A nice beginning for the active mind to acquire grounding in many areas
John A. Wass, Ph.D.
My occasional rants usually involve my twin interests of genomics and the mathematical education of scientists. This month’s column is a natural extension of the latter ...continue | | | | Avizo 5 | |
Avizo provides high-end 3-D data visualization and analysis capabilities within an intuitive workflow. The software offers a versatile, scalable application framework ...continue | | |
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| A Place for Your Stuff |  web exclusive
Proper PDA protection begins with a good case
John R. Joyce, Ph.D.
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Those road warriors who rely on their PDAs, whether to access the Web, e-mail or address book, will realize the importance of protecting these devices ...continue | | |
The top LIMS products used by the respondents to Scientific Computing's 2007 LIMS Market Watch Report are LabWare LIMS, STARLIMS and WinLIMS. It’s important to note that these numbers do not reflect the current growth or decline of LIMS sales but, rather, the sheer volume of systems, big and small.
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