TechAndComputer (Sep. 9, 2010) Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health have developed new software that greatly improves the speed at which scientists can analyze RNA sequencing data. RNA sequencing is used to compare differences in gene expression to identify those genes that switched on or off when, for instance, a particular disease is present. However, sequencing instruments can produce billions of sequences per...
TechAndComputer (Sep. 9, 2010) Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health have developed new software that greatly improves the speed at which scientists can analyze RNA sequencing data. RNA sequencing is used to compare differences in gene expression to identify...
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- 08 September 2010
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Computer scientists leverage dark silicon to improve smartphone battery life
- 01 September 2010
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TechAndComputer (Sep. 2, 2010) A new smartphone chip prototype under development at the University of California, San Diego will improve smartphone efficiency by making use of "dark silicon" -- the underused transistors in modern microprocessors. On August 23, UC San Diego computer scientists presented GreenDroid, the new smartphone chip prototype at the HotChips symposium* in Palo Alto, CA.
Dark silicon refers to the huge swaths of silicon...
TechAndComputer (Sep. 2, 2010) A new...
Dark silicon refers to the huge swaths of silicon...
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Super ALICE ushers in a new wonderland of green computing
- 31 August 2010
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TechAndComputer (Aug. 31, 2010) ALICE, the University of Leicester's new 'green' supercomputer, has been put into operation.
The University is aiming to make the £2.2 million facility the most energy efficient in the sector.
ALICE is ten times more powerful than the system it replaces, and is expected to help attract high quality researchers and millions of pounds in research grants to Leicester. Researchers will use the high-performance...
TechAndComputer (Aug. 31, 2010) ALICE, the...
The University is aiming to make the £2.2 million facility the most energy efficient in the sector.
ALICE is ten times more powerful than the system it replaces, and is expected to help attract high quality researchers and millions of pounds in research grants to Leicester. Researchers will use the high-performance...
TechAndComputer (Aug. 31, 2010) ALICE, the...
Gaming for a cure: Computer gamers tackle protein folding
- 04 August 2010
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TechAndComputer (Aug. 5, 2010) Biochemists and computer scientists at the University of Washington two years ago launched an ambitious project harnessing the brainpower of computer gamers to solve medical problems.
The game, Foldit, turns one of the hardest problems in molecular biology into a game a bit reminiscent of Tetris. Thousands of people have now played a game that asks them to fold a protein rather than stack colored blocks or rescue...
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The game, Foldit, turns one of the hardest problems in molecular biology into a game a bit reminiscent of Tetris. Thousands of people have now played a game that asks them to fold a protein rather than stack colored blocks or rescue...
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Data sorting world record falls: Computer scientists break terabyte sort barrier in 60 seconds
- 27 July 2010
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TechAndComputer (July 27, 2010) Computer scientists from the University of California, San Diego broke "the terabyte barrier" -- and a world record -- when they sorted more than one terabyte of data (1,000 gigabytes or 1 million megabytes) in just 60 seconds. During this 2010 "Sort Benchmark" competition -- the "World Cup of data sorting" -- the computer scientists from the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering also tied a world record for...
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