Supercomputer Dedicated To Bioengineering, Computational Biology Installed
The University of California, San Diego, with support from the National Institutes of Health and the Whitaker Foundation, has installed a supercomputer dedicated to solving a wide range of challenging biological problems. The 210-node Dell PowerEdge Linux cluster capable of 2.6 trillion mathematical operations per second, the second most powerful computer cluster on campus, will be used to analyz...Supercomputers to focus brains on AIDS dilemma
More than two decades after it burst onto the scene, HIV/AIDS has claimed more than twenty million lives and continues to devastate societies around the world, particularly in Africa and other developing countries. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, after years of effort AIDS researchers succeeded in developing a class of drugs that proved to be highly effective against AIDS. By blocking the acti...Avian flu modeled on supercomputer, explores vaccine and isolation options for thwarting a pandemic
Using supercomputers to respond to a potential national health emergency, scientists have developed a simulation model that makes stark predictions about the possible future course of an avian influenza pandemic, given today's environment of worldwide connectivity. The research, by a team of scientists from Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, the University of Washington and the Fred Hu...Virginia Tech's System X supercomputer provides super tool for simulation of cell division
Virginia Tech researchers in computer science and biology have used the university's supercomputer, System X, to create models and algorithms that make it possible to simulate the cell cycle -- the processes leading to cell division. They have demonstrated that the new mathematical models and numerical algorithms provide powerful tools for studying the complex processes going on inside living cel...Meeting the ethanol challenge: Scientists use supercomputer to target cellulose bottleneck
Termites and fungi already know how to digest cellulose, but the human process of producing ethanol from cellulose remains slow and expensive. The central bottleneck is the sluggish rate at which the cellulose enzyme complex breaks down tightly bound cellulose into sugars, which are then fermented into ethanol. To help unlock the cellulose bottleneck, a team of scientists has conducted mol...Cray signs $250M deal to develop supercomputer
However,...SGIs Wisconsin branch builds fastest supercomputer yet in four months
built the world's fastest supercomputer in about 129 days, and it was the company's Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, plant that pulled the project together. SGI announced the completion of the $50 million project for <a href="http:/...Supercomputer Grid Enlists PCs To Combat AIDS
A new project, launched with the aim to combat AIDS will exploit the unused power of thousands of individual and business computers around the world to aid research and identify drugs used to combat the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV).// The Internet-based initiative, called FightAIDS@Home, aims to enlist about 100,000 computer users to donate the use of their machines via a sec...Supercomputers To Assist In Thwarting Bird Flu Epidemic In Future
Supercomputers can now be used during health emergencies like predicting about the development of a diseases and its course as well. // Scientists have devised a simulator, which could make stark predictions about the possible course of bird flu pandemic based on today's environment of worldwide connectivity.The research, by a team of scientists from Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexi...