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Recent News and Articles on the Keywords: supercomputing + advance + biology  Related to the article below (Last Update: 8/4/2008)

Beyond the test tube
ScienceAlert, Australia - Aug 3, 2008
Molecules of relevance in biology or polymer science are often much, much bigger than this, and an enormous amount of research has been directed towards ...
TGen Awarded $1.99 Million Grant to Advance Highly Parallel ...
EVLiving - Jul 16, 2008
TGen and ASU will co-develop supercomputing system, tools aimed at molecular identification of numerous diseases. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) ...
Project Aims To Improve Energy Efficiency Of Computing
Science Daily (press release) - Jul 28, 2008
Other co-PIs on the project include UCSD Center for Networked Systems Director Amin Vahdat; Philip Papadopoulos of the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) ...
Multithreaded supercomputer seeks software for data-intensive ...
EurekAlert (press release), DC - Jul 14, 2008
"Traditional supercomputers are not well suited for certain kinds of data analysis, so we want to explore this advanced architecture," said PNNL ...
IBM Studies Cocoa, Eye for $6 Billion `Secret Sauce' (Update2)
Bloomberg - Jul 17, 2008
``As we develop faster and faster supercomputers, it's not always clear how to use them most effectively, and this is one example of how use them to advance ...IBM
New IU center shines (several kinds of) light on life sciences ...
Indiana University, IN - Jul 16, 2008
The program supports the purchase of advanced instruments such as imaging systems, spectrometers, microscopes and supercomputers that can accelerate the ...LSR
US scientific muscle behind cocoa-plant research that could boost ...
Creamer Media's Engineering News, South Africa - Jul 10, 2008
"This collaboration is an opportunity for us to apply our computational biology and supercomputing expertise to improving an economically important ...
Italian Transhumanist Manifesto
Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies, CT - Jul 29, 2008
At that time, the human beings shall be invited (or compelled) to upload their mind in the Supercomputer, and live their life in the form of disembodied ...
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[PDF] Overview of the I-WAY: Wide area visual supercomputing -
T DeFanti, I Foster, M Papka, R Stevens, T Kuhfuss - International Journal of Supercomputer Applications, 1996 - linux4u.jinr.ru
... computer power and more advanced visualization environments ... on the IBM SP2 supercomputer
at Argonne ... an interactive virtual environment at Supercomputing '95 in ...
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Announcing the worldwide Protein Data Bank -
H Berman, K Henrick, H Nakamura - Nature Structural Biology, 2003 - nature.com
... State University of New Jersey; the San Diego Supercomputer Center at ... agree on the
changes and give the structural biology community 90 days advance notice. ...

[PDF] … Biology, Bioengineering, and Biomedical Imaging Requiring Next Generation Supercomputing -
B Athey - Proceedings of the DARPA Biomedical Computing Needs for HPC …, 2003 - fas.org
... Enabled by Next Generation Supercomputing ... Advanced Visualization Methods ... Computing ?
Computational Biology Hub for Michigan Life Science Corridor (MLSC) ...

Flap opening in HIV-1 protease simulated by?activated? molecular dynamics -
JR Collins, SK Burt, JW Erickson - Nature Structural Biology, 1995 - nature.com
... Nature Structural Biology 2, 334 - 338 (1995) doi:10.1038/nsb0495-334 ... 1 Structural
Biochemistry Program, Frederick Biomedical Supercomputing Center, PRI/DynCorp ...

Blue Gene: a vision for protein science using a petaflop supercomputer -
F Allen, P Coteus, P Crumley, A Curioni, M Denneau … - IBM Systems Journal, 2001 - portal.acm.org
... vision for protein science using a petaflop supercomputer. ... has two main goals: to
advance our understanding ... 2000 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing (CDROM), p ...

[PS] Data-Intensive Computing -
R Moore, C Baru, R Marciano, A Rajasekar, M Wan - The Grid: Blueprint for a New Computing Infrastructure, …, 1999 - www-cse.ucsd.edu
... computer ? 10 TB supercomputer disk, 10 ... National Partnership for Advanced Computational
Infrastructure NPACI ... Neuroscience / Digital sky / Molecular biology / ...

Advanced computing for systems biology -
K Burrage, L Hood, MA Ragan - Briefings in Bioinformatics, 2006 - Oxford Univ Press
... case studies illuminating facets of advanced computing for ... all computing for systems
biology in the ... 4]. The classical, physics-dominated supercomputing of the ...

Trends in Computational Biology: A Summary Based on a RECOMB Plenary Lecture, 1999 -
JC Wooley - Journal of Computational Biology, 1999 - liebertonline.com
... the biological century, the needs for twenty- rst century or next generation biology
arose from the Department of Energy Advanced Supercomputer Initiative or ...

Computer Science, Supercomputing and Biology-Bioinformatics
R Hofestadt - Simulation Practice and Theory, 1995 - ingentaconnect.com
... Computer Science, Supercomputing and Biology-Bioinformatics. Author: Hofestadt R.
1. Source: Simulation Practice and Theory, 15 March 1995, vol. 2, no. 4, pp. ...

[CITATION] THE EVOLVING SUPERCOMPUTER ENVIRONMENT AT THE SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER
S Karin - Supercomputing, 1989 - Springer Verlag

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Supercomputing Equipment To Advance The Frontiers Of Computational Biology

Article Date: 13 Dec 2006 - 7:00 PST
Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute will continue to advance the frontiers of computational science with the help of IBM's Blue Gene supercomputer. Awarded under IBM's Shared University Research (SUR) program, this Blue Gene will complement the $100 million partnership between Rensselaer, IBM, and New York state to create one of the world's most powerful university-based supercomputing centers.

The equipment will provide a resource for scientists to gain experience with the Blue Gene computing environment, while also supporting a project to develop new simulation technologies for understanding biological systems. The work will help researchers develop algorithms and software that run efficiently on Blue Gene technology, which is a key part of the new Computational Center for Nanotechnology Innovations (CCNI).

This $2.23 million gift of IBM equipment counts toward the $1.4 billion Renaissance at Rensselaer campaign.

"This award further advances the strong partnership between IBM and Rensselaer to develop a leading-edge, high-performance computational capability," said Rensselaer President Shirley Ann Jackson. "It will allow our faculty and students to take the lead in research that will enable key nanotechnology innovations in the fields of energy, biotechnology, arts, and medicine."

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As biology becomes a more quantitative field, researchers need new simulation technologies to understand how proteins, DNA, and other biological systems behave at the molecular level, according to the Rensselaer research team. The new SUR award is designed to help develop simulations for prototyping medical devices in "virtual patients," with potential applications in targeted drug delivery systems such as drug eluting stents, transdermal patches, and inhalers.

To be successful, these simulations must run efficiently and effectively on the latest generation of high-performance computing equipment. The project will help researchers develop critical computational biology tools that operate on the Blue Gene system, with the goal of making these available to a broad community of users.

The project's principal investigators at Rensselaer are Angel Garcia, senior constellation chaired professor in biocomputation and bioinformatics; Mark Shephard, the Samuel A. and Elisabeth C. Johnson Jr. Professor of Engineering and director of the Scientific Computation Research Center; Shekhar Garde, the Elaine and Jack S. Parker Career Development Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering; and Kenneth Jansen, associate professor of mechanical, aerospace, and nuclear engineering.

The new Blue Gene system consists of a single rack with 1,024 dual processor compute nodes, 32 I/O nodes, a service node, a front-end node, and multiple terabytes of SAN-based disk storage.

Announced in May 2006, the Computational Center for Nanotechnology Innovations (CCNI) is a $100 million partnership between Rensselaer, IBM, and New York state to create one of the world's most powerful university-based supercomputing centers, and a top supercomputing center of any kind in the world. The center is designed to help continue the impressive advances in shrinking device dimensions seen by electronics manufacturers, and to enable key nanotechnology innovations in the fields of energy, biotechnology, arts, and medicine. Learn more at the CCNI Web site: http://rpi.edu/research/ccni/index.html.

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About the Campaign

The $1.4 billion Renaissance at Rensselaer: The Campaign for Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, launched in 2004, fuels the Institute's strategic Rensselaer Plan, and supports groundbreaking interdisciplinary programs which have at their core the technologies driving innovations in the 21st century: biotechnology, nanotechnology, computational information technology, energy and the environment and experimental media and the arts. The campaign aims to build the Institute unrestricted endowment, and also seeks funds for endowed scholarships and fellowships, faculty positions, curriculum support, student life programs, and athletic programs and facilities. To date, the effort has raised more than $1.2 billion.

About Rensselaer

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, founded in 1824, is the nation's oldest technological university. The university offers bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees in engineering, the sciences, information technology, architecture, management, and the humanities and social sciences. Institute programs serve undergraduates, graduate students, and working professionals around the world. Rensselaer faculty are known for pre-eminence in research conducted in a wide range of fields, with particular emphasis in biotechnology, nanotechnology, information technology, and the media arts and technology. The Institute is well known for its success in the transfer of technology from the laboratory to the marketplace so that new discoveries and inventions benefit human life, protect the environment, and strengthen economic development.

Contact: Jason Gorss
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
 
 
 
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