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Modern graphics processors (GPUs) deliver considerably more brute force computational power than traditional processors (CPUs). With NVIDIA’s launch of CUDA, general purpose GPU computing has become greatly simplified, and many research groups around the world have consequently experimented with how one can harvest the power of GPUs to speed up scientific computing. This is also [...] - Lars Juhl Jensen

Unreadable? - Egon Willighagen

:p pff, I will not be forced to indent my code ! :) - Pedro Beltrao

And Perl is the only language that has both "white" and "black" magic. :) - Pawel Szczesny

So true - Deepak Singh

What a story! Academia --> hedge fund --> ridiculous wealth --> self-funded academic research - Andrew Su

Wonder how long that'll hold up with Blue Waters around the corner. http://gladiator.ncsa.illinois.edu/vidcast... - Christopher Fields

Mmmmmmaybe. I like a one-stop shop myself. - Bill Hooker

I also think that some of the mechanisms for notifications and discovery have evolved to a point where this is possible. Not to a point that it's generally usable, but for the geeks, it might just work, at least as a communication and discovery channel. The one thing we still lack is a good identity system. The best one out there is Facebook, but in my circles, there is enough resistance to it. Which leaves OpenID, but, alas, it's not quite as well adopted as one would have oped - Deepak Singh

to followup what Deepak said, if it's good enough for the geeks, it's good enough. Does it really need to be Facebook-scale before it's useful? Maybe not having millions of people and the associated spam issues could actually be a feature? - Mr. Gunn

Nice post! - Egon Willighagen

Blog is not accessible, got in feed reader. - Abhishek Tiwari

Aargh. Back up now - Rajarshi Guha

[Found via Khader Shameer] - Chris Lasher

I have 1h commute and the boss does not mind that I stay home once in a while but more than a 1 day per week is not very good for you :) . It works well when I have a very specific thing I can focus on, then I get a lot more done at home. If I am playing around with some ideas then I just get too easily distracted at home. - Pedro Beltrao

frickin' cool... - Andrew Su

"The major macromolecular crystallographic refinement packages restrain models to ideal geometry targets defined as single values that are independent of molecular conformation. However, ultrahigh-resolution X-ray models of proteins are not consistent with this concept of ideality and have been used to develop a library of ideal main-chain bond lengths and angles that are parameterized by the φ/ψ angle of the residue [Berkholz et al. (2009), Structure, 17, 1316–1325]. Here, it is first shown that the new conformation-dependent library does not suffer from poor agreement with ultrahigh-resolution structures, whereas current libraries have this problem. Using the TNT refinement package, it is then shown that protein structure refinement using this conformation-dependent library results in models that have much better agreement with library values of bond angles with little change in the R values. These tests support the value of revising refinement software to account for this new paradigm." - Donnie Berkholz from Bookmarklet

Congrats! - Ruchira S. Datta

Love it : "With the Engine Yard Textmate bundle, you can easily deploy to Engine Yard AppCloud via your Textmate environment." - Deepak Singh

"drive forward an approach to computing that is fundamentally different from our previous approaches" - what would that look like? - Todd Hoff

We should always be taking the compute to the data. Actually we should be keeping the data always available for access by computing. And quite honestly, the kind of data that Yahoo is working on is not social network data, neither is the data that the guy from a large financial institution was running on a test cluster (1 PB), nor is all the geospatial and other data types that I see.... more... - Deepak Singh

I agree with one caveat - data science needs data scientists, but regular data analysis needs much easier to use pipelines. But there is a continuum here and we need all of these different skills sets. To pretend any one person can cover the needed spectrum is insanity. - Cameron Neylon

+1 Agreeing with no caveats. I think academia should realize the potential of mentoring the next generation of students with understanding of the Data Science and its importance. A Data Science 101 should be a compulsory module in all biology / computer science / bioinformatics graduate course. - Khader Shameer

Very interesting how structured they seem to feel they need to make it. - Cameron Neylon

ROFL, like it, still, what else are people using ??? - joergkurtwegner

Thanks for that link Walter. I think people radically underestimate the amount of time required for a good presentation. Time for planning, practice and refining (not just writing). - mikepk