Monthly Archives: March 2006

Grid Computing in Pharma – Bioinform (3/24/06)

By Deepak Singh | Published: March 30, 2006
The March 24th issue of Bioinform (subscription required) has an article on distributed computing entitled “Distributed Computing is Alive and Well on Pharma Desktops Despite Some Licensing and Tech Glitches”. Being somewhat skeptical of the usability of distributed computing in pharma environments, I was very curious to see what the article concluded. According to the [...]
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Wordpress Widgets

By Deepak Singh | Published: March 30, 2006
I am looking forward to implementing WordPress Widgets. As in other cases, I am holding out on palying around a lot with the blog design for now, as I hold out for the next release of K2, which is widget ready.
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Nature Magazine: The future of scientific computing

By Deepak Singh | Published: March 23, 2006
Nature magazine has a complete issue on the future of computing. Many of the articles are free thanks to sponsorship from Microsoft, who also have their own 2020 report. The issue makes fascinating reading, and talks about some of the major challenges that we need to address using scientific computing. The [...]
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Education extends to computational scientists too

By Deepak Singh | Published: March 16, 2006
I have recently discovered the blog at the Open Science Project, which I heartily recommend. As I was browsing through some of the earlier posts, I found a post discussing the lack of good software practises in scientific computing. From personal experience, both as a computational scientist myself and from seeing a [...]
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Blind hamsters in past tense

By Deepak Singh | Published: March 14, 2006
Dr Rutledge Ellis-Behnke and co-workers have published a paper in PNAS (still waiting for the thing to show up on the PNAS website and on Pubmed), which has garnered a lot of press today. The team, which included scientists from MIT and Hong Kong University (Dr. Ellis-Behnke has a joint appointment), was able to [...]
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