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Full survey results
April 21st, 2011 by Richard Holland
Update: Go to this year's survey Introduction As promised, and without further todo, here are the full results of the survey that Eagle Genomics ran prior to our 1st Annual Symposium on 5th April 2011 at Babraham, on the subject of "Provisioning Bioinformatics for the Next Decade: Are we prepared?". Let's go through the questions…
VMware in the cloud
April 4th, 2011 by Richard Holland
Amazon currently permits VMware users to import their existing VMware images and convert them into AWS-compatible AMIs. There are only three caveats: (a) the machine must be shut down before importing, (b) it must have less than 1TB of virtual harddrive, and (c) it must be running Windows Server 2008. That last caveat is the…
Cloud Infrastructure (Infrastructure as a Service) – a common man’s supercomputer.
February 3rd, 2011 by Madhu Donepudi
The University of Texas at Austin who used supercomputer to study the role of transcription factor proteins in gene regulation makes me think about how many organisations in the the life sciences arena have access to this kind of computational resource for their studies. Only few universities and some large pharmaceutical companies I suppose. Often…
Public or Private Cloud, or maybe Hybrid?
October 18th, 2010 by Nick
Last week I noticed that a new world record had been set… and I’m afraid I’m not talking about the common wealth games, but rather about another advance in private cloud computing. The record was set ( or rather reset, as they already held it ) by Autonomy Corporation Plc, and the press release is…