Sun Computational Biology SIG Newsletter - 29 November 2004

Don't Miss the Free LifeSciences Webinar "AMD: Opteron has Superior Price-Performance Versus The Competition - The Benchmarks You've Been Asking For" this Friday, 3 Dec!

We have been seeing some pretty remarkable life science benchmarks with S10x86 on Opteron! This is your chance to get some first hand information. S10x86 combines all of the features of rock-solid Solaris, plus excellent new features like DTRACE and Containers, plus the super performance of our Opteron products.

URL: http://www.sun.com/products-n-solutions/edu/commofinterest/compbio/

WHAT: Lifesci Webinar Series

WHY: our "Say Hello To..." series will illustrate how Sun's partners in life science, and our mutual customers, get the most out of x86 computing

WHEN: every other Friday at 9am PST - registration required

Say Hello To Lifesci Opteron Webinar Series - will run November 19, 2004 to May 27, 2005 and will introduce computational and research scientists as well as IT professionals to a number of Sun partners who have designed technologies that address key problems in life science research and development today.æ See Sweepstakes rules for details but you may also be eligible to win a Sun-AMD dual Opteron server with a 1 year license to INCOGEN or Geospiza software!

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Computational Biology Application Developers: Contact Us!

If you are the primary developer of a significant (highly used) computational biology algorithm, database, or computer technology (bioinformatics, "post-genomics", macromolecular modeling, biosimulation, bioengineering, clinical informatics, or medical imaging), please send email to us outlining -

1. package name:
2. functionality:
3. approx number of active users (or downloads/year, etc.):
4. operating systems supported (Solaris, Linux, Windows, etc.):
5. CPUs supported (Sparc, Opteron, etc.):
6. reference URL:

Please give us the same information if you support multiple, popular packages.

We are interested in supporting you in porting to Solaris 10 on x86 (see e.g., http://wwws.sun.com/software/whitepapers/solaris9/solaris_porting_2x86.pdf). Free beta download (http://wwws.sun.com/software/solaris/solaris-express/get.html). Solaris 10 will be free and open sourced (Sun support will incur a fee), vendor neutral (will run on any x86 or Sparc cpu), AND will run Linux applications UNMODIFIED!

• Runs on UltraSPARC, Intel, AMD processors
• Runs on 273 different systems from many manufacturers. see http://sun.com/bigadmin/hcl
• Breakthrough technology (DTrace, ZFS, Containers, Process rights management and lots more)
• 100% compatibility for customer/ISV applications back to 2.6
• Major increases in performance on UltraSPARC, Intel or Opteron
• Huge increases in security
• Allows major increases in utilization(which means lower costs)
• Runs Linux binaries unchanged on Intel or Opteron processors
• Runs Java applications more effectively
• Includes state of the art Directory, Application Server, Firewall and much more which makes it the next gen Service Deployment Platform\
• Runs the best ISV applications in the market
• Offers world-class support for Unix and we take this strength further with the addition of the Sun Connection service offering.

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