Sun Computational Biology SIG Newsletter - September 22, 2003

High-performance Medical Imaging Management Infrastructure - TeraMedica/Sun Seminar, 22 October 2003

Sun in partnership with TeraMedica will sponsor an external webseminar for healthcare customers: Best Practice - "Learn how the Mayo Clinic implemented a high-performance medical imaging management infrastructure"

Guest speakers include Philip Berman MD - TeraMedica Medical Advisory Bd

Chris Hanna, CEO of TeraMedica and other Sun experts Wednesday October 22, 2003 11am PST - 2PM EST To register for this complimentary Web Seminar: log on to www.diagnosticimaging.com - click on the button - Sun Microsystems Web Seminar. Questions - Please contact joan.hankin@sun.com

Sun Outpaces HPTC Market

Building momentum in the high performance and technical computing (HPTC) market, Sun announced it was the only vendor to outgrow the overall HPTC market year-to-year in unit shipments, according to IDC's Q2CY03 Technical Server report. Sun grew 43% versus 30% for the overall market. This quarter also marked Sun's entry into the Technical Capability segment, which tracks systems configured and purchased to solve the largest, most demanding problems. In the last year, Sun created an organization focused on the HPTC market segment and has scored significant customer wins in government, education, life sciences, manufacturing, oil and gas, and the financial services segment.

• http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/2003-09/sunflash.20030904.1.html

• http://wwws.sun.com/software/gridware/ Sun's public, non-technical site for SGE
• http://stg.uk.sun.com/twiki/bin/view/Specialty/HPTC A hard to find, but useful, resource on HPTC and SGE maintained by Sun
• http://developers.sun.com/prodtech/cc Compiler collection portal - contains papers etc.
• http://www.globus.org
• http://www.ggf.org
• http://www.supercomputingonline.com
• http://dsonline.computer.org/parallel/parallel_parascope.htm Parascope is comprehensive, if a little overwhelming
• http://www.top500.org List of supercomputing sites w/ searchable archives
• http://dsonline.computer.org/parallel/parallel_parascope.htm David Bader's IEEE Parascope list of Parallel Computing URLs
• http://www.openmp.org OpenMP Consortium
• http://www.mpi-forum.org MPI Forum
• http://www.enterthegrid.com/ Lots of Grid material

Sun's Asia Pacific Science and Technology Center - Publications

Below is a partial list of publication of Sun's APSTC (Asia Pacific Science and Technology Center), headed by Dr Simon See. (http://apstc.sun.com.sg)

Conference or Jounral Papers ( If you would like to request any of the available Publications, please send your request to reports@apstc.sun.com.sg.):

1. A Sort-First Parallel Rendering Algorithm for Distributed Rendering Environments, Huabing Zhu, Kai Yun Chan, Lizhe Wang, Wen Tong Cai & Simon See, Cyberworlds 2003, Singapore, 3-5 December 2003.
2. A Resource Co-reservation Heuristic for Parallel Tasks in Computational Grids, Lizhe Wang, Wentong Cai, Simon See & Wei Jie, Parallel Computing 2003 (ParCo2003), 2-5 September 2003.
3. Packet Triplet: An enhanced packet pair probing for path capacity estimation, Jie Song, Proceedings of Network Research Workshop, pp. 93-97, Busan, Republic of Korea, 27 August 2003.
4. Resource Co-allocation for Parallel Tasks in Computational Grids, Lizhe Wang, Wentong Cai, Bu-Sung Lee, Simon See & Wei Jie, CLADE2003 IEEE HPDC-12 Workshop, 21 June 2003.
5. A Grid-based Technical Computing Portal for MCAE Applications, Dan Fraser, Henry Fong, Simon See, HPC Asia 2002, Bangalore, India, 16-19 December 2002.
6. Grid Computing with Jini, Jxta and Sun Grid Engine, Simon See, PDCAT, Kanazawa, 3-6 September 2002.
7. Interval Arithmetics for Multidisciplinary Design Optimization, Simon See, MECHANICS & MATERIALS IN DESIGN (M2D-4), 4th International Conference, Nagoya International Center, Nagoya, Japan, 5-8 June 2002.
8. Scheduling Algorithm for Distributed Simulation Systems Management, Simon See, European Simulation Multiconference 2002, FH-Darmstadt, Germany, 3-5 June 2002.
9. Use of Rate Control and Historical Data to Improve Performance of Servers, Pok Vic Sent, Simon See & Ian Thng, European Simulation Multiconference 2002, FH-Darmstadt, Germany, 3-5 June 2002.
10. Computer, Internet and Mathematics, Simon See, Proceedings of the second East Asia Regional Conference on Mathematics Education and Ninth Southeast Asian Conference on Mathematics Education, Singapore, 27-31 May 2002.
11. A Distributed Simulation Management Engine For Ordinary Differential Equations, Simon See, 2002 International Symposium on Parallel Architectures, Algorithms and Networks I-SPAN2002, Makati City, Metro Manila, Philippines, 22-24 May 2002.

New Java Desktop System ("Mad Hatter") Announced

Sun broke security, price and feature barriers in the enterprise desktop market with the PC industry's first alternative in more than 15 years. Sun's desktop solution includes the Sun Java Desktop System (formerly known as Mad Hatter) secured by the now ubiquitous Java Card smartcard, the new StarOffice 7 productivity suite, and the latest enhancements to the Sun Ray product line. The company also announced an outpouring of support from industry leading Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) including Adobe, Computer Associates and RealNetworks and a partnership with EDS to develop enterprise migration and support services. http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/2003-09/sunflash.20030916.3.html

Archives for Life Sciences e-Newsletter

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Note: In Sunspeak "Life Sciences" means commercial pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies. "Healthcare" means the delivery end of medicine, and "EDU" means the academic (non-profit, research hospital, etc.), research community...! In any event, we're sure everyone will find interesting articles in this e-Newsletter.

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