Slowing the ageing process
By 2024, it’s estimated that over half of the population of the UK will be over 50 years old. That statistic has implications both for …
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Patient-specific Drug Choice
Choosing the right drug for a patient with cancer is a complicated challenge. There is such a wide range of options, and it can be …
Stable compounds of Gallium, Indium and Thallium in the +2 oxidation state
In a paper published in Nature Chemistry, a team of experimental chemists from the Universities of Oxford, Monash and Queensland, in collaboration with computational chemists …
Modelling mutations for cancer cure
The p53 tumour suppressor protein, when it works properly, helps to prevent cancer. It does so by inducing the arrest of the cell cycle, by …
Environmentally Friendly Heterogeneous Catalysis
Researchers at UCL are using a range of sophisticated computational tools to simulate and predict the chemical processes that take place at the surfaces of metal and other material surfaces.
Improving weather and climate forecasts
Dr. Eike Mueller and Prof. Rob Scheichl of the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Bath use the Emerald GPU-accelerated supercomputer to develop …
High-order Computational Fluid Dynamics
Application to Design of Next-Generation Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Computational simulation of fluid flow, often referred to as Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), plays an critical role …
Working towards the Square Kilometre Array
MOTIVATE is a pathfinder project with the aim of investigating the application of the latest many-core technologies to deliver energy and efficiencies in the area of radio astronomy High Performance Computing.
How the “Swine” flu virus develops drug resistance
A University of Bristol team used the Emerald GPU supercomputer to investigate how mutations of a key enzyme of H1N1 “Swine” flu lead to the development …
World leaders in Performance Sports Engineering
The Wolfson Unit at the University of Southampton worked with America’s Cup teams for over 30 years, using experimental testing in towing tanks and wind …