by agleites | May 27, 2010 | High Performance Computing
Supercomputers have become an extension of the human mind, “thinking” for us in a short amount of time when our own brains would take countless hours to do the same calculations. In one of the most recent applications of HPC (high-performance computing),...
by agleites | May 26, 2010 | High Performance Computing
Scientific American reports (accessed via HPCwire) that a project partly funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation will use supercomputing to help stop the spread of malaria, which kills about a million people a year. The team tasked with working on the malaria...
by agleites | May 24, 2010 | High Performance Computing, Tech & Innovation
The San Diego Union-Tribune reports (accessed via HPCwire) that scientists, with the help of supercomputers, have made the first ever synthetic cell. J. Craig Venter led a team that extracted DNA from existing bacteria and redesigned the entire genetic code on a...
by agleites | May 21, 2010 | Tech & Innovation
HPCwire reports that Microsoft has gathered a new team called the Technical Computing Group with the ambition of “modeling the world”, that is, creating a software/hardware package that makes it easier than ever for scientists, researchers, doctors,...
by agleites | May 19, 2010 | Storage
In my last article, back in 2001, I had envisioned a network storage accessibility from anywhere at anytime. Today we are starting to see network storage pool accessibility using techniques such as Cloud Storage. EMC’s Atoms onLine provides customers instant...
