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There is now a CONTENT FREEZE for Mercury while we switch to a new platform. It began on Friday, March 10 at 6pm and will end on Wednesday, March 15 at noon. No new content can be created during this time, but all material in the system as of the beginning of the freeze will be migrated to the new platform, including users and groups. Functionally the new site is identical to the old one. webteam@gatech.edu
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Atlanta, GA | Posted: July 2, 2009
GeomeWeb.com, Jun '09 - Last year's June issue of Genome Technology included a feature story that delved into the world of venture capital in the life sciences. Even a year ago, the marketplace for new life science startup companies was becoming a bit tighter than it had been in the past, though investments were still being made. / / That year the magazine also spoke with SUNY Buffalo's Jeffrey Skolnick, who was ahead of the curve and replacing his 4,000-processor cluster with a 1.32 teraflop IBM blade system. The blades, he said, allowed for a smaller footprint. Skolnick has since moved to GEORGIA TECH, where he heads up the Center for the Study of Systems Biology. One of the facilities at the center is a RAZOR cluster, a 1,000-node IBM cluster that can perform 8.5 trillion calculations per second. As of January 2007, the cluster contained 1,154 blades. (Full Story)
