Sun Computational Biology SIG Newsletter - 30 June 2005

Solaris Source Code Now Available on opensolaris.org

http://opensolaris.org

This milestone opens new opportunities for Academic Developers to enhance their course work and research projects. For more information please refer to:
OpenSolaris website: http://opensolaris.org/
OpenSolaris Academic & Research Community: http://opensolaris.org/os/community/edu/
Marc Hamilton's OpenSolaris Blog: http://blogs.sun.com/marchamilton/

FYI: There have been over 1.6 million downloads of OpenSolaris thus far.

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Nottingham (UK) Opens $9M Supercomputing Facility: 3Tf Sun Supercomputer

http://news.taborcommunications.com/msgget.jsp?mid=392249&xsl=story.xsl

One of the world's most powerful supercomputers was officially unveiled at The University of Nottingham on June 1, Bio is One of Four Main Application Areas for 3Tf Sun Supercomputer "University of Nottingham researchers in the Schools of Pharmacy, Civil Engineering, Physics & Astronomy and Chemistry are undertaking four pilot projects using the HPC facility...[including] Protein folding and dynamics - the HPC allows, for the first time, a simulation of the whole process by which proteins 'unfold'. The failure of this process is implicated in many diseases, and a better understanding could lead to advances in the treatment of diseases such as Alzheimer's and diabetes."

Based on a very large Sun/AMD Opteron cluster with 544 V20z nodes (1088 cpus), running Solaris 10 and Sun Grid Engine, achieves 3Tf.

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Useful Solaris 10 DTRACE and Zones Tools/Examples

http://users.tpg.com.au/adsln4yb/

Thanks to Brendan Gregg.

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U. Calgary JAVA 3D Enabled Cave

http://www.bio-itworld.com/newsitems/2005/06-05/06-09-05-els-3d-cave

Interesting new article on one of our COEs.

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Workshop on INTERVAL METHODS AND THEIR APPLICATIONS

http://www2.imm.dtu.dk/~km/int-05/

Technical University of Denmark, August 25 - 27, 2005

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Sun Corporate News of Interest to Computational Biologists

*Sun Microsystems Announces Fastest x64 Workstation in the Industry to Date: Priced at $29.95(USD) Per Month
http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/2005-06/sunflash.20050627.5.html

*Sun Microsystems Facilitates Community Learning with $180 Million Student Developer Program
http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/2005-06/sunflash.20050628.2.html

Sun Shares the Opportunity, Provides: Sun Java Studio Enterprise, NetBeans Mobility Pack, Sun Studio 10 and the Solaris 10 Operating System Free to Students

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