Sun Computational Biology SIG Newsletter - 21 April 2005

Sun Announces Dual-Core Technology Across Entire x64 Server Product Line

http://money.excite.com/jsp/nw/nwdt_ge.jsp?news_id=cmt-111p2385&feed=cmt&date=20050421

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INCOGEN Promotion

From now until May 31, 2005 INCOGEN has a special promotion that can deliver Sun hardware to you at significant savings.

The first is for all customers whether they are academic or for-profit. In this promotion we will load VIBE Desktop Edition on a Sun W1100 workstation and deliver the combination for the price of the software package only. That's right. Buy VIBE Desktop Edition and get a free Linux box! To participate in this program please respond directly to don@incogen.com.

http://www.incogen.com/fwNew.php?i=11&id=1743

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1.1 Million Solaris 10 downloads!

The latest (April 11) Solaris 10 license numbers:
Solaris 10 Registered Systems Totals
SPARC total 379,837 <--- 34%
X86 Total 748,628 <--- 66%
Total 1,132,465

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Sun News of Interest to Computational Biologists

*Powerful Yet Simple Technology Required to Discover Life
An ambitious project to catalog all living things relies on volunteers around the world, straightforward Web tools, and robust technology.
http://www.sun.com/solutions/documents/articles/ls_dl_aa.xml

*Technical Whitepaper on Sun's Bio Workstation and Bio Cluster
http://www.sun.com/solutions/documents/white-papers/ls_SunBioBoxWhitepaper_dd.pdf?null

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Sun HPC Consortium and Agenda for CB-SIG, June 20-21, Heidelberg

Preliminary Agenda for Sun Computational Biology SIG (CB-SIG) Meeting, 21 June

08:45:00 AM Introduction tefan Unger Sun
09:00:00 AM Bx José María Carazo Parque Cientifico de Madrid COE
09:30:00 AM Bx H.A.Nagarajaram CDFD COE
10:00:00 AM Bx Andrei Turinsky U.Calgary COE
10:30:00 AM Break 11:00:00 AM Med Wataru Yamzaki TUS COE
11:30:00 AM Med Matthias Harders ETH COE
12:00:00 PM Sim Arun Holden Leeds COE
12:30:00 PM Wrapup Stefan Unger Sun

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