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Rocket Speed To Computing, An Interview with Samuli Siltanen

Watch the video on YouTube Samuli Siltanen is highly regarded as an innovative Industrial Mathematics Professor at the University of Helsinki, Finland. He is also well known for writing textbooks and conducting research in the area of inverse problems. The goal of Siltanen’s scientific work is to design efficient numerical methods that have a sound [...]

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Build career in HPC Finance

Read full job posting in EURAXESS Are you interested in developing your career and professional expertise at the crossroads of Financial Engineering and High-Performance Computing? Techila Technologies announces job opportunities, which you should not miss! HPCFinance networks fourteen Researchers across Europe in a research project, which aims to proactively train young people to respond to [...]

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Look inside cloud HPC

Watch the video on YouTube Ask twenty different computer experts what cloud computing or cloud HPC are, and you will get twenty different answers. This is not because cloud computing as a concept is still in its infancy; the technology is already up and running and the chances are you have already used it. It [...]

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Interview with VTT’s CIO Markus Ekman

Watch the video on YouTube An interview with VTT’s CIO Markus Ekman. VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland is a globally networked multitechnological contract research organization and the biggest applied research organization in Northern Europe with 3200 people. VTT provides high-end technology solutions and innovation services to enhance its customers’ competitiveness. VTT serves several industries: [...]

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Will R displace Excel?

Read the article in LinkedIn Groups The sophistication and advancements in how we use data to support business decisions is increasing all the time. This will also imply higher expectations of those providing advise and expert opinions and the users will begin to expect analytics infrastructures to support comprehensive data sets. This will require bringing [...]

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What to expect from the cloud in 2012 – Usability and interoperability

Read the full article in TechRepublic Thoran Rodrigues writes in his TechRepublic blog that while it is true that many companies have been experimenting and investing in cloud computing already, they represent a quite small percentage of the overall IT market. The positive results will attract the attention of the slow movers. As data centers [...]

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Set up a scalable HPC cloud in minutes

Watch the videos on the Videos Page Techila has published a new familiy of tutorial videos. These tutorial videos show step-by-step how to build an autonomous private High-Performance Computing cloud with Techila, in just minutes. Setting up a flexible private HPC cloud with Techila consists of four steps: Setting up a Techila Server, updating the [...]

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Will going with a cloud create a vendor and platform dependency?

Today, businesses, research and product development projects rely heavily on number crunching in its many forms, like optimization, modeling, simulations and data analysis. Cloud services have unforeseen amounts of cost-efficient computing power available, which could meet the end-users needs. Cloud computing is conceptually relatively simple but still hard to implement and manage on the application [...]

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Techila helps The Cancer Genome Atlas

Watch Timo Erkkilä’s presentation at The Cancer Genome Atlas Symposium 2011 on YouTube In a joint effort together with Institute for Systems Biology and Tampere University of Technology, associations uncovered within The Cancer Genome Atlas using RF-ACE can be viewed at Regulome Explorer, an interactive web application developed for exploring associations across molecular features spanning [...]

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Distributed encoding

Watch the video on YouTube MacRumors community tells about a brilliant example of what easy-to-integrate computing capacity can enable: Digital video recorders produce enormous amounts of content. Encoding this content on a regular Mac HTPC can take a long time. Distributed encoding and sharing the workload across several computers can speed up the process dramatically. [...]

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