Sun Computational Biology SIG Newsletter - 23 May 2005

Major Hardware Upgrade at HPCVL: HPCVL Advances Work in Stem-Cell Research, Economics, Physics and Psychology Using Sun Technology

*Solaris 10, Sun Fire Servers and Sun StorEdge Arrays to Enhance New High Performance Computing Environment -- Quadruples Current Compute Power Capacity*
http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/2005-05/sunflash.20050519.1.html

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OptimaNumerics Libraries for Sun Solaris 10

http://www.OptimaNumerics.com

OptimaNumerics, leader in high performance technical and scientific computing software, today announced OptimaNumerics Libraries for Sun Solaris 10 systems, providing customers with the most advanced mathematical software tools in the industry. OptimaNumerics Libraries, with linear algebra, parallel linear algebra and parallel random number generators modules, provide high performance versions of LAPACK, ScaLAPACK, PETSc, SPRNG and PLFG libraries. Benchmark results of OptimaNumerics Libraries show significant performance improvements, with components delivering over 2x faster solutions.

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Last Two "Say Hello to ..." Webinars: Accelrys and Gene-IT, May 25, 25

In November, Sun began our "Say Hello to... " webinar series to share stories of how customers and technology partners have been working together to bring innovative solutions to you that address business problems typical to discovery informatics today.  This week, we'll be featuring our final two webinars in this series.

* On May 25 at 9am PT, we will showcase Accelrys who will highlight the significant performance improvements that Sun & Accelerys engineers achieved by working together.  Accelrys' Accord product is an advanced biological and chemical registration system. Join us!

* On May 26 at 9am PT, we will showcase Gene-IT and their High Throughput Sequence Search & Analysis appliance which is designed to accelerate decision-making based on patent information.  Join us for this presentation plus the grand drawing of our Sweepstakes winner who will receive a new Sun-AMD Opteron workstation pre-loaded with "VIBE" - bioinformatics pipeline software solution developed by INCOGEN.

You can register at:  http://events-at-sun.com/webinars/ and, once you have registered, you can log in to review all of our archived webinars in this series. For any enquiries about efforts in life sciences at Sun, please email us at: LifeSciences@sun.com

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DTU Workshop on Interval Methods, 25-27 August

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

The Technical University of Denmark (DTU) is a Center of Excellence for Sun and one of our largest customers in scientific computing. DTU hosts the second workshop on Interval Methods and their applications (August 25-27, 2005)

At many universities all over the world, interval methods are a research topic across various departments (e.g. math, chemistry, physics, chemistry and statistics).

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Enabling User-Controlled Collection of Application Crash Data With DTrace

http://developers.sun.com/solaris/articles/app_crash/app_crash.html

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Registration now open for HPC Consortium Europe 2005, 20-21 June

High Performance Computing Consortium -- Europe 2005
"INNOVATION MATTERS"

When: June 20, 21 - Main Program, Dinner Event
June 21 - Grid and Comp. Bio. Special Interest Group Meetings
(Prior to the ISC2005 conference, http://www.isc2005.org/)
Where: Crowne Plaza Heidelberg
Kurfurstenanlage 1, Heidelberg, 69115
Germany
Registration: http://www.sun-registration.com/hpc
Housing: We have a block of rooms at the Crowne Plaza at special price from June 19 to 21. In addition the ISC2005 conference offers hotel bookings for the entire week.
Information: hpcconsortium-info@sun.com

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Sun Grid Rack System

http://www.sun.com/servers/computegrid/

The Sun Grid Rack System is an easier and faster way to buy and deploy grids. It is a combination of x64 servers, networking infrastructure, and Sun software--all pre-integrated at the Sun factory and fully supported by Sun. Sun has created configurations for different system sizes (S/M/L/XL) based on our real-world Grid expertise. These sample configuration templates are designed to make ordering easier and can be tailored to the customers' specific needs.

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International Masters Programme in Molecular-Bioengineering at U. Tech. Dresden

http://www.biotec.tu-dresden.de/transfer/master/homepage.html

An international masters programme in molecular-bioengineering is being offered at University of Technology in Dresden, Germany. The interdisciplinary 2-year programme comprises besides bioinformatics, modules covering genomics, proteomics, biophysics, and tissue engineering. It is fully accredited and has been selected for the prestigious Erasmus Mundus programme of the EU. The application deadline for students outside Germany is 1 June 2005.

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Be Sure to See Us at ISMB, Detroit, 25-29 June

We will have a booth, plus several special events, keep tuned!

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