Sun Computational Biology SIG Newsletter - 24 February 2005

RFID in the Pharmaceutical Industry

http://www.pbsmag.com/Article.cfm?ID=143

Back to top

Registration Opens for Web Services for Comp. Bio. and Bioinformatics Conference, 26-27 May 2005, Blacksburg, VA

https://www.conted.vt.edu/ssl/webconference.vbi/index.lasso

International Symposium on Web Services for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, May 26-27, 2005
Virginia Bioinformatics Institute (VBI) and Sun Microsystems at Donaldson Brown Hotel and Conference Center, Blacksburg, Virginia

Note: other events sponsored by Sun Global Education and Research Computational Biology:

• IWNG, Santorini, Greece, "Neuroimaging and Genomics", 5/8-12/2005
• ISMB, Detroit, MI, Premier Sponsor, 6/25-29/2005
• "Bridging Gaps in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics", RTP, NC, 9/22-23/2005

Back to top

Selected Sun Corporate News of Interest to Computational Biologists  Sun seeks input on Java imaging technologies

http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1553033318;fp;16;fpid;0

Sun adds its Java Advanced Imaging (JAI) and JAI Image I/O Tools projects to the java.net collaboration site for Java developers.

Sun Boosts System Performance to Optimize Data Center Workloads
Over 2x Application Throughput and 34 Percent Better Price/Performance on Solaris (TM) Servers on UltraSPARC(R) Platform http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/050223/sfw038_1.html

Back to top

Administering and Supporting N1 Grid Engine 6 (US Only)

http://www.sun.com/training/catalog/courses/WE-1600.xml

The Administering and Supporting N1 Grid Engine 6 course introduces students to N1 Grid Engine 6. This interactive web-based course equips system administrators and technical support professionals with the ability to implement and support N1 Grid Engine 6. The course explains the process of installing and configuring the product and includes case studies that address information such as configuration settings are optimal for a variety of customer needs and network scenarios.

Course Number:WE-1600, US Only; Duration:4-5 hours; Cost:$100.00

Back to top

Sun N1 Grid Engine 6 Update 4 Beta (N1GE) with Support for Windows Now Available

N1GE can be downloaded from Sun Download Center (SDLC) from the URL below.

If you do not have an account on SDLC yet you can easily register online by following the instructions found on the download page. After logging in to SDLC you will be presented a click-through license. After accepting the license terms you can download N1GE. There is no additional paperwork required to participate in this Beta program.

Download URL:
https://cds.sun.com/is-bin/INTERSHOP.enfinity/WFS/CDS-CDS_SMI-Site/en_US/-/USD/ViewProductDetail-Start?ProductRef=N1GE-6U4-G-BETA@CDS-CDS_SMI
(this url ends at "=try")

Technical support alias:
n1ge6-support@sun.com
General feedback:        n1ge6-feedback@sun.com

Back to top

Heads-up: Sun HPC Consortium (Sun HPCC), Heidelberg, 20-21 June 2005, with CB-SIG on 21st June

The next Sun HPC Consortium will be in Heidelberg, 20-21 June 2005 right before ISC2005.  Please submit a short description of your proposed paper to compbio-sig-info@sun.com.

The last Sun HPCC was held in Pittsburgh in November 2004
(http://www.sun.com/products-n-solutions/edu/events/2004/hpc_consortium04.html)

The proceeding of past CB-SIG meetings are at
http://www.sun.com/products-n-solutions/edu/commofinterest/compbio/sig/.

Back to top

Course: Applied Computational Genomics Course (ACGC), U. Calgary, Alberta, 30 April to 8 May, 2005

http://www.gcbioinformatics.ca/ or sophie.chung@visualgenomics.ca

The course will be taught using tools and services which are available through the Genome Canada Bioinformatics Platform

Back to top