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Dual-Core Systems to Pack HPC Punch

Life scientists who need large amounts of processing power for their applications will soon have a new high-performance computing (HPC) choice: systems based on dual-core AMD Opteron and Athlon processors, which were officially announced Thursday.

New systems based on these processors were the highlight of an AMD "Second Anniversary of Opteron" event held last week in Manhattan. Vendors announcing dual-core systems included IBM, Sun, HP, Cray, Microway, Supermicro, and Egenera.

Essentially, dual-core processors let server, workstation, and desktop computer vendors pack nearly twice the computational punch in their system because the dual-core chips fit into the same processor form-factor as traditional (single-core) processors. Read more.

What do you think of dual-core systems? Do you have any hesitations about using them? What would be the most important factor when buying one? Drop me a line at Salvatore_Salamone@bio-itworld.com with your comments.

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BioTeam/InforSense in Informatics Partnership

The life science IT consulting firm The BioTeam and informatics infrastructure supplier InforSense announced a partnership to integrate their respective products. The two companies will integrate The BioTeam's iNquiry informatics clustering kit with InforSense's KDE workflow analytics platform. The integrated offering will provide life scientists with a high-performance grid computing environment to conduct bioinformatics research and analysis.

"We've done well in the chemistry field, we think we can do a similar [job] on the biology side," says Yike Guo, CEO and founder of InforSense.

Guo notes that InforSense's Knowledge Discovery Environment is based on a Web services architecture. "This allows companies to integrate their own software with [our] workflow platform," says Guo. The KDE suite a discovery portal, a text mining and analysis module called TextSense, a BioScience module, and a ChemScience module. The company plans to introduce the iNquiry software as an add-on module to the KDE.

For those interested in building informatics workflows, Guo will be speaking at the upcoming Bio-IT World Conference + Expo to be held May 17 to 19 in Boston. Guo's talk on "Workflow Technology for Discovery Informatics" is part of the exciting three-day "IT Solutions for Drug Discovery" track at the conference.

More information about the conference can be found at www.bio-itworldexpo.com.

A detailed list of all the talks in the "IT Solutions for Drug Discovery" track can be found here.

Other Bio-IT Stories of Interest

IBM Changes Dual-Core Pricing for New AMD Chips

Microsoft Plans Joint R&D Center with French Government

Study: Apple Making Its Marks in Life Sciences

U. Pitt's 'Gattaca Cluster' Drives Genetic Research

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Briefs

Microway announced the Navion-DC Series, 4- and 2-processor SMP servers based on AMD's Dual-Core Opteron processors. One of the new servers in the line is the Navion-DC-4, a 4U unit that supports four Dual-Core Opteron processors and up to 64 GB of memory. The other new server is the Navion-DC-2, a 1U server with two Dual-Core Opteron processors. The Navion-DC-4 is aimed at compute-intensive applications such as high-performance database and enterprise applications. The Navion-DC-2 is designed for high performance computing applications. Both systems use Microway's "Across-the-Board" enhanced cooling technology. Pricing of the four dual-processor system starts at under $30,000.

SAS used its recent annual users conference to announce new informatics analysis tools. The company rounded out its Scientific Discovery Solutions suite with the addition two products including the SAS Genetic Marker, which is software that helps with genotype analysis, and SAS Proteomics, software that helps with the identification of protein biomarkers. The two new products can be used in conjunction with SAS Microarray software for microarray data analysis. And data from all three products can be shared using SAS Research Data Management, a data repository and analysis management platform.

To bring increased security, management, and reliability features to its line of storage products, Dynamic Network Factory (DNF) has partnered with control solutions provider Solidcore Systems. Through the partnership, DNF will include Solidcore's Embedded Solution with its storage systems. The Solidcore Embedded Solution provides a more secure storage system in that it prevents unauthorized code from running and does not allow unauthorized changes on a storage device. DNF noted that the Solidcore solution will help it meet customer concerns about securing their networks and storage. Specifically, customers say they are overwhelmed with dealing with network attacks, intrusions, and patching systems for known security holes.

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Salvatore Salamone is Bio-IT World's senior editor for information technology. He has over 12 years' experience writing about networking technology and is the author of three books, including The Complete Guide to VPNs (published by InternetWeek, 1999), LAN Times Guide to Managing Remote Connectivity (Osborne McGraw-Hill, 1997), and Reducing the Cost of LAN Ownership (Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1995, co-written with Greg Gianforte).

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