Stories about: Bioinformatics

IBM this week will uncrate its first Opteron-based blade server in an effort to expand hardware options for customers, especially those in financial and research industries that depend on high-performance computing.

Hoping to strengthen its position in the clustering market, IBM on Wednesday rolled out a new version of its eServer Cluster 1350 powered by AMD's dual-core Opteron chip. Company officials contend the offering will give users access to a broader range of higher-end applications.

When a newly named IT methodology emerges, two, three or more definitions attach themselves to it but it looks like utility computing is finding its direction. Michael Crawford and Oliver Rist report

The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) has tapped IBM for a US$402 million project to consolidate its IT infrastructure to reduce operating costs and support new applications like electronic health records.

Has your bachelor's degree lost its currency? Do you aspire to be a manager? Or do you simply want to specialize in a particular area of IT?

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.

InfiniBand took a turn for the better with announcements from three companies committed to seeing the technology become more than a niche play.

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.

Enterprises that sponsor employee postgraduate education reap far greater results than mere feel-good philanthropy, writes Julian Bajkowski.

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.