Sun Computational Biology SIG Newsletter - 10 December 2004

Solaris 10 and Sun Fire V20z Systems Help Stanford Linear Accelerator

Center Researchers Soar Into Record Books in the Fifth Annual Bandwidth Challenge: New World Record Increases Bandwidth More Than 330 Percent Over Last Year

http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/041130/sftu075_1.html

Another article: Solaris 10 is all about performance

http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=2477BF5E-1C00-47F5-B273-CAC7291BF33A

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Did you know? Some Java Factoids...

4.2 million+ Java developers
579+ million Java Power phones (source: Ovum)

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Sun and AMD for Life Sciences

http://www.sun.com/br/1204_ezine/ls_amd.html

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Call for Presentations: Int'l Conf. on Web Services for Comp. Bio. and Bioinformatics

26-27 May 2005
Blacksburg, VA
{The deadline for submission of the Call for Presentations is December 31, 2004.}

Sponsored by Sun Microsystems
Organized by Virginia Bioinformatics Institute (VBI) At Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Location:æ Virginia Bioinformatics Institute Conference Facilities Donaldson Brown Hotel & Conference Center Blacksburg, Virginia

This Call is soliciting presentations for the International Symposium on Web Services for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics.æ An increasing number of groups are providing access to data and computational resources through web services. Through providing this access, challenges can occur for hardware, software, and system management, which need to be resolved for web services to be successful.æ Also, the number of deployed web applications in the field of Computational Biology is increasing; thereby, leading to scientific results generated through the use of distributed resources.

We are looking for contributions in the following areas: Architecture (SGE, Portals Architectures, Open Grid)

Technical Issues (Scheduling, Economics/Accounting/Cost Recovery, Security)
Web Service-Based Applications
Scientific Results Using Web Service-Based Applications

The expected length of each presentation will be 30 minutes. If you would like to present, please provide the following information:

Title of Presentation
Abstract (300 words)
Contact Information
Short Biography (150 words or less)
Audio/Visual Requirements

The deadline for submission of the Call for Presentations is December 31, 2004.æPlease send your information or questions to webconference@vbi.vt.edu.æ

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