Stories about: Bioinformatics

Lured by the sweet taste of chocolate, IBM hopes to use the cocoa plant as an avenue to improve its business prospects in the emerging economies of Africa.

Sony's PlayStation 3 set to move in on personal computers with the release of the Linux operating system for the device.

Leveraging the reputation of its high-powered Blue Gene supercomputer line, IBM on Friday unveiled its Blue Gene on Demand offering to customers that want periodic ultra-high performance without having to own and maintain the hardware.

The Australian Partnership for Advanced Computing (APAC) has announced details of its next generation supercomputer, which according to executive director John O'Callaghan, has a chance to be one of the top 30 in the world.

Massey University took delivery last week of its new Double Helix cluster computer and says it packs anywhere between five to ten times the computational power of the university's existing supercomputer, the 64-node Helix 1.

With $12 million in funding and a consulting chief scientist from Los Alamos whose research field is efficient computing, high-performance networking and bioinformatics, two of Transmeta's co-founders have reinvented the technical workstation, coming up with a completely new kind of box that's actually a "Personal Cluster" or even a "Personal Supercomputer" - a widget that puts 12 nodes in the space of a classic desktop or 96 nodes in a knee-knocking deskside - both configurations playing to the emerging rage for commodity Linux clusters.

The Australian Partnership for Advanced Computing (APAC) is working to establish a national grid to integrate eight supercomputing facilities around the country.

Australia's premier supercomputing facility will increase its computational capacity by up to 10 times following an injection of $29 million in government funding.

In what is billed as another step toward a higher-bandwidth Internet, a team of researchers has set a new data transmission speed record over the Abilene Network, the Internet2 backbone.

Australia’s bioinformatics industry will increasingly rely on open source software as researchers look for inexpensive point solutions that are not just a “black box”, according to delegates at an Australian Technology Park Innovations bioinformatics symposium in Sydney.

The University at Buffalo Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics has installed an IBM Corp. supercomputer built on blades and also will work with IBM researchers who will provide algorithms to aid protein pattern and correlation discovery, the company and the center announced Thursday.