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Amazon Cuts Cloud Storage Prices

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:17:14 +0000

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Amazon Web Services is cutting prices on their cloud computing storage offering, S3.

Cleaning up Messy Data with Google Refine

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:15:09 +0000

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iPhlyo has a post demonstrating how to use Google Refine, a freely available web-based tool, to clean up messy data.

Fighting Disease with iPhones and Big Data

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 21:02:57 +0000

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An iPhone app developer is working on tracking skin cancer to facilitate personalized medicine.

Cray Now Offering $200,000 Supercomputer

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 18:49:16 +0000

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Cray is now offering an "affordable" supercomputer with a starting price tag of $200,000.

What it Takes to Get to Exascale

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 16:35:41 +0000

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Exascale supercomputers would be 100 times more powerful than today's supercomputers, but what will it take to make them a reality?

API for Statistical Phylogenetics with HPC

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 20:55:03 +0000

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University of Maryland researchers release an application programming interface and HPC library for statistical phylogenetics.

GPUs for GWAS

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 18:17:32 +0000

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A team from the University of Edinburgh is using GPUs to ramp up GWAS data analysis.

Amazon Rolls out NoSQL Database Service

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 19:17:03 +0000

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Amazon Web Services is now offering customers a NoSQL database service called DynamoDB.

GPU-Based Cluster Aids Nanocarrier Simulations

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 21:24:55 +0000

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UIC researchers use NCSA's GPU cluster "nanocarriers" for targeted cancer therapy.

GPU-Accelerated Short Read Aligner

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 22:23:58 +0000

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A UK-led research team has released a GPU-accelerated short read aligner using Nvidia's CUDA GPU programming solution.

Highlights from SC11 Part IV

Sat, 14 Jan 2012 03:33:49 +0000

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In this video, we speak with Todd Smith, senior leader of research and applications of PerkinElmer, and researchers from Stockholm University on accelerating the GROMACS molecular dynamics software suite with GPUs and CPUs.

More FPGAs for Genomics

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 19:19:05 +0000

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New FPGA-accelerated BLAST solutions to be demonstrated at PAG XX.

A Few Hundred Genomes in Your Pocket

Mon, 09 Jan 2012 20:12:40 +0000

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Makers of the Swiss Army Knife is now offering a 1TB thumb drive — the knife is optional.