Thanks for your question! I know that there is a lot of confusion around how we are referring to these technologies. What I am looking for may be called a cluster in the sense that a complete, 100+-node infrastructure of high-end, Xeon servers running Linux resides at one location. It's probably connected to a SAN with fabric of Ethernet, Infiniband or Fibre Channel. And maybe they're running really sophisticated Celera or Accelrys applications? Is that consistent with your experience? David Original Message: ----------------- From: Chris Dwan cdwan at bioteam.net Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 13:18:45 -0400 To: bioclusters at bioinformatics.org Subject: Re: [Bioclusters] Research Study of Large,Computation-Intensive Grids By "grid", do you mean "cluster"? -Chris Dwan On May 25, 2005, at 4:50 PM, David Kramer wrote: > I am a market researcher who specializes in working with IT, > biotech & other > advanced technology companies. > > We are currently looking into High Performance Computing in leading > bio- > science organizations. Our study is primarily focused on the real > high- > performance, computation-intensive grids in pharma & life sciences. > > More precisely, the essence of what we are studying are the larger > grids of > over 100 nodes -- running very select, breakthrough applications > with advanced > algorithms for bio- and chem-informatics. CPUs for core, business- > driving > discovery. As opposed to other grids that may be used for data center > consolidation, for example. > > What we're trying to learn is: a) where are the 100-port+, high- > performance > computational grids in pharma and life sciences today, and b) what > are the > various "business requirements" that are driving their evolution. > > If anyone can help with this exciting research assignment, it would > be greatly > appreciated! > > David > > David Kramer > Managing Director > Princeton Solutions Group, LLC > 856.642.1724 > > > > ------------------------------------------------- > This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/ > _______________________________________________ > Bioclusters maillist - Bioclusters at bioinformatics.org > https://bioinformatics.org/mailman/listinfo/bioclusters > _______________________________________________ Bioclusters maillist - Bioclusters at bioinformatics.org https://bioinformatics.org/mailman/listinfo/bioclusters -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ .