Jinal Jhaveri on everything

summary of paper: Insights on biology and evolution from microbial genome sequencing Claire M. Fraser-Liggett The Institute for Genomic Research, Rockville, Maryland 20850, http://www.genome.org/cgi/reprint/15/12/1603

Summary of Supercomputing 05 Things I attended 1) Tutorial on datawarehousing for Genomics and Proteomics (Marshal Peterson, CTO-Craig venter institute) - Talked about the Sargasso sea experiment. - produced 100 million of genetic code every 24 hours - 1800 new species - 1.2 million new genes - 12 complete genomes - Before this experiment we knew about only 120-180k genes - looked for something like: Take all genes which might be efficient in producing ethanol - generated 1 billion base pairs of dna - 85% of sequence was only seen once - Used it to better understand the functioning of natural ecosystem 2) Talked about Data Warehousing Netezza performance server system: Using Assymetric Massively Parallel Architecture: - combines symmetric multiprocessing with massively parallel architecture - Basically they tried to bring processing power to the data instread of sending data to the processing power - Also had facility of sql-blast i.e adding blast capacity in sql. - They have this con