[Pipet Devel] Re: [Fwd: Piper Program]

[J.W. Bizzaro]

ming luo wrote:
> 
> I am kind of confused about the juno thing, are they the email/ISP service?

Yes, they are.

> why do they do bioinformatics?

"potential revenue generation and potential contribution to society."  See
below.

> is juno part of the goverment?

Nope.

I just found this press release on their website.  It explains quite a bit,
although Piper is not meant to be a distributed *parallel* computing
system.  It even mentions Yuri Rozenman:

  http://www.juno.com/corp/news/supercomputer.html

Cheers.
Jeff