Life Sciences Supercomputer in Operation |
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Wednesday, 11 August 2010 |
The Premier of Victoria, The Hon. John Brumby, MP, yesterday welcomed
the arrival of Victoria's first supercomputer in a ceremony to mark the
occasion at the University of Melbourne. The IBM Blue Gene
supercomputer is part of the $100 million Victorian Life Sciences
Computation Initiative (VLSCI) to establish the most powerful
supercomputer dedicated to life sciences in the southern hemisphere.
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Are We There Yet? - Dr Ajay Royyuru, IBM |
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Friday, 23 July 2010 |
Information technology plays a vital role in enabling new science and
discovery in biology. Advances in high throughput and platform
technologies in biology present an unprecedented challenge in scale,
management, and analysis of biological data. Advances in computing
architecture and scale are enabling simulations of complex biological
processes at various organizational levels from atomic to cellular and
beyond.
High performance computing that takes full advantage of massive
parallelism is a necessary means to obtain the performance needed to
tackle this complexity. Dr Ajay Royyuru’s talk will examine the
landscape of computational biology with the lens of computational
scale. In particular, an overview of current research in petascale
biology and opportunities at the exascale will be examined.
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