Bioinformatics and Big Iron
Eric Rollins did some interesting tests with Ruby. It should be possible to run parallel tasks effectively with DRb. I am going to do some more playing around with this.
The Ruby fanfare on the net seems to be approaching the “multi-core” crisis and several bloggers are talking about Ruby as a language for parallel environments.
Multicore Hardware and the Future of Ruby
Multi-core hysteria and the thread confusion
News for Week 25/2007
Distributed Ruby Workers on EC2
Ironically printed on a colorful paper flyer….
Describe The Impact of Cyberinfrastructure on Your World
Cyberinfrastructure-
new research environments that support advanced data acquisition, data storage, data management, data integration, data mining, data visualization and other computing and information processing services over the Internet. In scientific usage, cyberinfrastructure is a technological solution to the problem of efficiently connecting data, computers, and people with the goal of enabling derivation of novel scientific theories and knowledge.
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