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November 12, 2014
Modeling capitalism in the 21st century

The shock financial crisis that started in 2007 provided a vivid demonstration of the unstable nature of our global financial system. Yet, academics from the Zurich University of Applied Sciences in Switzerland argue that a lack of globally-agreed standards for modeling financial contracts means that accurate comparison of risk exposures between banks is still almost impossible today.

October 1, 2014
Cloud and big data are hot topics in Heidelberg

The popular ISC Cloud and ISC Big Data events are being held this week in Heidelberg, Germany. Follow iSGTW on social media for highlights from the events and read our in-depth interviews with top speakers.

September 17, 2014
Digging up value with big-data mining

Domenico Talia will speak about big-data mining and knowledge discovery at ISC Big Data in Heidelberg, Germany, on 1-2 October. Talia, who is a professor of computer engineering at the University of Calabria in Italy, will explain how cloud computing can offer effective support for addressing both the computational and data-storage needs of big-data mining and parallel analytics applications. In an in-depth interview, he tells iSGTW about his research in this area and argues that it’s time for the public sector to invest in big-data, so as to provide better services to citizens.

July 2, 2014
Supporting world-class research at ISC’14

Last week, iSGTW attended the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC’14) in Leipzig, Germany. The event featured a range of speakers representing a wide variety of research domains. Awards given by PRACE and Germany’s Gauss Centre for Supercomputing highlighted some of the outstanding research on show at the event. And, of course, the new TOP500 list of the world’s fastest supercomputers was announced.

March 26, 2014
The growth of HPC in the life sciences

Manuel Peitsch, co-founder of the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, will chair a session on high-performance computing in the life sciences at ISC’14 in Leipzig, Germany, in June. He tells iSGTW about the exciting advancements being made in this field.

Peitsch argues that bioinformatics — enabled by advances in high-performance computing — has a major role to play in tackling the grand challenges of the 21st century, such as environmental protection, energy supply, public health, and sustainable food production.

February 12, 2014
Brain-inspired computing at ISC '14

Karlheinz Meier, one of the three co-directors of Europe’s Human Brain Project, will deliver a keynote talk at this summer's ISC'14 event in Leipzig, Germany.

Funded by the European Commission, the Human Brain Project is an ambitious endeavor, with the intention of greatly advancing the understanding of the human brain using cutting-edge computer technologies.

November 20, 2013
The human brain: a recurrent network of networks

Scientists from across the globe met in Switzerland last month for the launch of the Human Brain Project. However, building a computer to simulate the human brain is no easy task: in each cubic millimeter of brain tissue there are around 100,000 neurons, and each one makes contact with around 10,000 other neurons. Markus Diesmann, from Germany’s Jülich Research Centre, provides insight into the complexities surrounding this epic undertaking. He speaks about his work on simulating a circuit of the whole-brain network and discusses how specialized software can help represent the neurons and synapses of the full circuit. 

October 2, 2013
Flexibility — for HPC, clouds, and the workforce.

Last week, ISC Cloud ’13 was held in Heidelberg, Germany. Delegates at the event agreed on the importance of supporting research with ‘utility computing’ models, whereby cloud-based, on-demand HPC services are used ad hoc to support in-house computing resources at times of heavy demand. Also, example use cases of HPC in the cloud were given and the importance of training was discussed.

October 2, 2013
Preparing for tomorrow's big data

Research at CERN featured prominently in discussion at ISC Big Data ’13, which was held last week in Heidelberg, Germany. The event focused on the future of handling big data, as well as big data as a crossroads where high-performance computing and enterprise meet.

September 18, 2013
Big data, big opportunities — for science and for enterprise

iSGTW speaks to CERN openlab’s Sverre Jarp, ahead of this month’s inaugural ISC Big Data conference in Heidelberg, Germany. Jarp, who is the general chair of the event, picks his highlights from the conference program and tells us why big data presents exciting opportunities, but also poses challenges, for enterprise and HPC alike. 

September 4, 2013
Heidelberg set to host inaugural ISC Big Data conference

This month sees the launch of an exciting new conference series from ISC Events. 'ISC Big Data – Where HPC and Enterprise Meet' is set to take place on 25-26 September and will be chaired by Sverre Jarp, chief technology officer of CERN openlab. 

June 26, 2013
Top of the FLOPS at ISC’13

Last week, almost 2,500 experts from industry, research, and academia gathered in the German city of Leipzig for International Supercomputing Conference '13. At the event, the new TOP500 list of supercomputing sites was announced and several speakers discussed the likelihood of achieving exascale supercomputers by the end of the decade.

 

March 20, 2013
Interview: Thomas Sterling

High-performance computing veteran Thomas Sterling will be delivering a keynote speech on HPC achievement and impact at this year's International Supercomputing Conference in Leipzig Germany (ISC'13). He speaks exclusively to Nages Sieslack...

August 15, 2012
Can clouds transform science?

The ISC Cloud’12 conference is on September 24 to 25 2012, in Manheim, Germany. ISGTW is a media partner of the event. As a build up, the chairman of ISC cloud conferences has interviewed a key speaker. Manish Parashar, founding director of large-scale computational resources at Rutgers and the National Science Foundation, talks about the role of clouds in computational and data-enabled science and engineering, and how these applications can benefit from clouds.