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

[Gary Van Domselaar]

Hey all,

I read the press release.  It reminds me somewhat of what parabon is also
trying to do (for profit, I believe):
http://www.parabon.com

Notice they have a 'folderol' clone project...

Regards,

g.
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On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, J.W. Bizzaro wrote:

> 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
>
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