[Next-Generation Sequencing Book]
  • [Photo] Gary Van Domselaar • June 21, 2000
    ''Scientists at the Sanger Centre in Cambridge are expected to announce any day that chromosome 22, an complete section of human DNA, has been successfully mapped. Over three hundred Alpha-based Compaq TRU64 Unix systems as well as 60 Intel-powered Linux machines contributed to the huge number-crunching effort required to interpret the chemical make-up of a chromosome. The centre combined all the Linux machines into one giant 'virtual computer' in order to maximise their computational power.''

    Full story:
    http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/2000/23/ns-16028.html

    Reference by LinuxToday.com. Submitted by J.W. Bizzaro

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