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AWS Announces FPGA Instances For Its EC2 Cloud Computing Service
TechCrunch | Amazon's AWS cloud computing service today announced that it is launching a new instance type with field-programmable gate arrays. The promise of these arrays is that they are essentially chips that you can reprogram on the fly and tune them for your specific applications, making them faster than traditional CPU/GPU combinations.
Nov 30, 2016
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Illumina, Dell EMC, QIAGEN, and More: News from November 2016
Bio-IT World News Briefs| News, products, and partnerships from around the bio-IT community including news from Illumina, Dell EMC, QIAGEN, and more.
Nov 23, 2016
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An In Depth Look at the Father of Systems Biology
Bio-IT World Review | Luke Timmerman has produced a page-turner biography of biologist and biotech entrepreneur Leroy “Lee” Hood. Timmerman’s narrative provides valuable insights into the man, biology, and biotechnology.
Nov 23, 2016
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U.S. Sets Plan To Build Two Exascale Supercomputers
Computerworld | The U.S expects to be ready to seek vendor proposals to build two exascale supercomputers by 2019.
Nov 23, 2016
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AWS Is Cutting And Simplifying Its Storage Prices
Computerworld | Amazon Web Services made a series of price cuts on Tuesday and simplified what customers pay for its storage products.
Nov 23, 2016
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Intel and Broad Commit to Five-Year Genomic Data Engineering Partnership
Bio-IT World CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—On Thursday, Intel and the Broad Institute came together to announce a joint endeavor that aims to enable research organizations and their IT departments to keep up with exponentially increasing amounts of genomics data.
Nov 22, 2016
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Oracle Just Bought Dyn the Company That Brought Down the Internet
WIRED | An attack on internet infrastructure company Dyn last month cut off access to some of the world's biggest sites last month. Now Oracle is buying the company.
Nov 21, 2016
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DDN Survey Finds Private Cloud Growth, Mixed Flash Use Among HPC Users
Bio-IT World | Earlier this month, DataDirect Networks (DDN) announced the results of its annual High Performance Computing (HPC) Trends survey. The company queried 143 high performance compute end users responsible for high performance computing, networking and storage systems from financial services, government, higher education, life sciences, manufacturing, national labs, and oil and gas organizations.
Nov 21, 2016
