UK Using Cognitive Computing in Personalized Medicine Push
As the pharmaceutical industry moves from the era of “blockbuster” drug discovery (developing a single drug that targets large numbers of people with a particular disease) to the era ...Full Article
Giving Businesses Access to the World’s No. 2 Supercomputer for ‘the Intractable Problem’
If you’ve blown through the limitations of a cluster that can’t handle your modeling workloads, Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Titan system is the stuff dreams are made of. Number ...Full Article
Handicapping IBM/OpenPOWER’s Odds for Success
2016 promises to be pivotal in the IBM/OpenPOWER effort to claim a non-trivial chunk of the Intel-dominated high-end server landscape. Big Blue’s stated goal of 20-to-30 percent market share ...Full Article
Genome Researchers Battling Data Storage Bottlenecks
Genome sequencing designed to determine the complete DNA sequence of an organism is generating petabytes of raw and processed data that is proving extremely difficult to manage and store. ...Full Article
SGI LiveArc Data Management Advances Cancer Research
Established in 2000, the University of Queensland's Institute for Molecular Bioscience (IMB) in Brisbane, Australia has become leading center for molecular bioscience research. The Queensland Centre for Medical Genomics ...Full Article
IBM Puffs Up Platform Symphony, LSF On SoftLayer Cloud
IBM entered 2014 hitting the cloud drum hard. Taking a page from tech titans like Google, Microsoft, and Amazon Web Services, Big Blue wants to make it as simple ...Full Article
Micron Pushes Memory Roadmap On Several Routes
Memory maker Micron Technology has a bullish roadmap for DRAM, flash, and other technologies that will very likely be in a system, switch, or other device near you in ...Full Article
How Ancestry.com Branched Out And Embraced Scale
Ancestry.com is dedicated to discovering, preserving, and sharing family histories, and it knows all about the issues of scaling up IT operations to match a growing number of users. ...Full Article
Ohio Healthcare Hotshots Join Hands for Medical Research
Hoping to make the most of growing data volumes, three of Cleveland’s biomedical giants—Cleveland Clinic, University Hospitals and Case Western Reserve University’s medical school—have joined forces in the name ...Full Article
British Pharmaceutical Industry Maps Its Way to Big Data
Thanks to issues ranging from proprietary data silos to patient privacy concerns, imbuing the healthcare industry with a knowledge gained from a country’s worth of patient medical history via ...Full Article
