Supercomputers: Obama orders world's fastest computer

Re:Supercomputers: Obama orders world's fastest computer by eitally on Thursday July 30, 2015 @10:39AM (#9975248)

And it's not like there isn't precedent. I remember a couple years ago when Google showed off gene mapping at I/O (Urs' demo to visualize how easy it was to scale GCP From 1 to 10 to 1000 to 100000 cores), and now they've partnered with the Broad Institute to apply this more generally.

http://www.broadinstitute.org/google

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Re:Supercomputers: Obama orders world's fastest computer by dekhn on Thursday July 30, 2015 @11:18AM (#9975561)

I was the person on stage with Urs who ran the demo (I'm a computational biologist who went to Google to help them build this kind of infrastructure, because DOE wasn't doing it). Read more about the demo here: https://cloud.google.com/compute/io

I also helped create the original idea for the Broad collaboration. It was pretty obvious that standard HPC was a waste of money and not designed for high throughput biology, while Google published numerous papers (MapReduce, GFS, Bigtable) that demonstrated they were building infrastructure that was perfect for a wide range of computational biology programs.

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