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NIH Awards Indiana University $1.5 Million to Explore Cloud Computing in Health Research
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As reported in Medical News Today ... Researchers from the Pervasive Technology Institute Digital Science Center at Indiana University have begun work on an innovative project that will use cloud computing techniques to support life science research. The project is supported by a $1.5 million grant award from the National Institutes of Health and takes advantage of an earlier National Science Foundation grant to IU to construct an experimental supercomputing network called FutureGrid...
... Technological advances have made medical and biological research increasingly data-rich in recent years - a trend that scientists believe will continue to accelerate. Processing extremely large sets of digital data that result from gene sequencing and other medical research technologies is a significant challenge that generally cannot be met by a single facility or supercomputer...
... The project will also harness commercial cloud computing infrastructure such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and other open source software...
... Cloud computing provides a way to outsource computing infrastructure in order to create virtual supercomputers with greater computational power than can be provided by any one facility ... Users of clouds can access nearly unlimited computational power, created by pooling distributed computational resources, and using simple and straightforward web interfaces. This eliminates the need for users or their institutions to own and maintain large and expensive computational equipment, and also for users to have detailed technical understanding of the computational resources supporting their research. The research team will explore the use of cloud techniques to overcome current medical computing obstacles such as long computation time and large memory requirements...
Read on at: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/173038.php
ENJOY!
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As reported in Medical News Today ... Researchers from the Pervasive Technology Institute Digital Science Center at Indiana University have begun work on an innovative project that will use cloud computing techniques to support life science research. The project is supported by a $1.5 million grant award from the National Institutes of Health and takes advantage of an earlier National Science Foundation grant to IU to construct an experimental supercomputing network called FutureGrid...
... Technological advances have made medical and biological research increasingly data-rich in recent years - a trend that scientists believe will continue to accelerate. Processing extremely large sets of digital data that result from gene sequencing and other medical research technologies is a significant challenge that generally cannot be met by a single facility or supercomputer...
... The project will also harness commercial cloud computing infrastructure such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and other open source software...
... Cloud computing provides a way to outsource computing infrastructure in order to create virtual supercomputers with greater computational power than can be provided by any one facility ... Users of clouds can access nearly unlimited computational power, created by pooling distributed computational resources, and using simple and straightforward web interfaces. This eliminates the need for users or their institutions to own and maintain large and expensive computational equipment, and also for users to have detailed technical understanding of the computational resources supporting their research. The research team will explore the use of cloud techniques to overcome current medical computing obstacles such as long computation time and large memory requirements...
Read on at: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/173038.php
ENJOY!
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