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The top 10 of the November 2024 list of supercomputers is very much a western affair, all coming from the US, Europe and Japan. But in fact, if China’s fastest supercomputers were listed, they would be third and fifth on the list. And the commercial sector is building machines that are even faster than the number one.

If runtime is a problem for your application, then the use of a general-purpose graphics processing unit (GPGPU) can be a solution. GPGPUs can sometimes speed up computations by an order of magnitude. As an extra advantage they use far less power per computation. But exploiting their computational power is not always easy and only works for applications that meet specific requirements.

Burn injuries can have a radical impact on someone’s quality of life. A burn injury in the neck, for example, can cause a contraction that makes it impossible for someone to lift his or her head.

Complications such as hypertrophic scars and contractions can occur as the result of burn injuries. In the first-place, hypertrophic scars cause aesthetic problems. In the case of hypertrophy, the scar is thicker and more elevated than normal. The second class of complications, an excessive contraction, often causes reduced mobility of the joint of the patient.

Wat is er de afgelopen 10 jaar gebeurd op het gebied van de hardware voor het grotere rekenwerk, oftewel de High Performance Computing (HPC)? En wat staat ons de komende jaren te wachten? We gingen in gesprek met twee systeembouwers en we kregen van hen een vogelvlucht perspectief van de ontwikkelingen in HPC-platformen.

Is High Performance Computing converging or diverging? Will there be generic HPCexperts or does each platform require its own expert?

An HPC software tool Par@graph has been developed to analyze the very large climate networks by the LINC project, funded by EC’s Marie-Curie ITN program.