Diamond Light Source is a world-renowned synchrotron facility in the UK that provides scientists with access to intense beams of x-rays, infrared, and other forms of light to study materials and biological structures. The facility boasts over 30 experimental stations or beamlines, and is home to some of the most advanced and complex scientific research projects in the world. I08-1…
]]>This post was updated April 2023. Scientific instruments are being upgraded to deliver 10–100x more sensitivity and resolution over the next decade, requiring a corresponding scale-up for storage and processing. The data produced from these enhanced instruments will reach limits that Moore’s law cannot adequately address and it will challenge traditional operating models solely based on HPC…
]]>As the world battles to reach a scientific breakthrough in the fight against COVID-19, scientists are turning to computing resources to accelerate their research. To help make the process for scientists more accessible, we’re spotlighting a few of the GPU-accelerated applications that developers can use right now in the fight against this virus. Applications like AMBER, GROMACS, NAMD…
]]>Double-precision floating point (FP64) has been the de facto standard for doing scientific simulation for several decades. Most numerical methods used in engineering and scientific applications require the extra precision to compute correct answers or even reach an answer. However, FP64 also requires more computing resources and runtime to deliver the increased precision levels.
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