New Computational Tools Leverage Hadoop® and Spark™ for NGS Workflows
Life sciences research continues to evolve rapidly. While structural biology, drug discovery and materials science are still important, we’re seeing an increasing focus on analytics and the more...
View ArticleCray’s Innovative Analytics System Named “Best of Show”
At last week’s Bio-IT Conference & Expo, Cray’s Urika-XA™ extreme analytics platform was selected as Best of Show in the IT Infrastructure and Hardware category. For Cray, this recognition was a...
View ArticleEuropean Researchers Model the Human Brain
You may have seen recent news items regarding the Human Brain Project (HBP), a ten-year European neuroscience research initiative. Interactive computer simulation of brain models is central to its...
View ArticleUrika-GX: A Game Changer for Big Data Analytics
There’s a lot of hype around big data in healthcare and the life sciences. But big data is here to stay. Information is what drives the entire industry. When I worked in big pharma, I learned that the...
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Markley and Cray Offer Supercomputing as a Service
Global supercomputer leader Cray Inc. and Markley, a premier provider of datacenter space and cloud computing services, today announced a partnership to provide supercomputing-as-a-service solutions...
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Cray CEO Discusses New Supercomputing as a Service
Cray’s president and chief executive officer, Peter Ungaro, offers insights into the company’s new supercomputing-as-a-service offering, in partnership with Markley. The first industry offering is the...
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Hail Powers Precision Medicine on the Urika-GX Platform
Hail is an open-source platform for analyzing variants in genomic data on top of Apache Spark. It takes advantage of three key elements of Spark’s design: Scalability. Datasets are multi-terabyte and...
View ArticleBio-IT World 2017: Life Sciences Embrace Cloud
Hope you had a chance to attend the 16th annual, three-day Boston Bio-IT World Conference & Expo this year. Competitions included: Best Practices awards announcements and the Benjamin Franklin...
View ArticleData-Intensive Computing to Simulate the Brain
Understanding how the human brain works will take more than brains. Along with the planet’s smartest scientific minds, it will take never-before-achieved computing capabilities. The science and...
View ArticleLeading the Charge for Cancer Research
Cancer has proven itself a formidable opponent. But every opponent has a weakness — and Rick Stevens is working to identify it, exploit it… and, ultimately, bring the disease to its knees. How? With...
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