Laser Microscope At Cornell Images Serotonin In Live Cells
...e reconstruction, the researchers used the IBM SP2 supercomputer at the Theory Center , part of the NIH Parallel Processing Resource for Biomedical Scientists....'BirdSource' Website For Citizen-Science Data
...ventually BirdSource, which is based at a national supercomputer center, the Cornell Theory Center in Ithaca, N.Y., will handle much more. "You will be able to go to BirdSource and ask, 'Where were the Dark-eyed Juncoes in December 1934?' and instantly see a map displaying reported sightings of that species," said...The Shape Of Life: How Does The Computer "Know" When It Sees It?
...ver likes to compare it to solving Rubik's Cube. A supercomputer randomlyworking all possible solutions wouldtake about a billion years to get the right answer. In 1983, a Los Angeles highschool student set the world's recordat just under 23 seconds. If a random search takes too long, then teaching acomputer to se...Scientists Develop New Computer Program To Speed Determination Of Gene Function
...arker using this method. "Using a parallel supercomputer on loan from Hewlett-Packard, we havepre-calculated the markers in all the genes that have been sequenced thus far sowe have a list of 13,000 to 14,0000 markers on our Web site; we basically aregiving them away to the world," he said. "We also put a ...Simulating protein folding from physical laws
... HDEA from the bacterium E. coli onCornell's IBM supercomputer and predicted a structure consisting of a bundle offive spiral coils that matched 80 percent of the structure found by X-raycrystallography. It was the best match of several computer-generated structuresfor the protein submitted to the Third Communi...JMU builds supercomputer for national model undergraduate program
...es of memory, and what do you get? The answer is a supercomputer - the equivalent of a large machine that cost mill...e mathematics and physics departments have built a supercomputer with 16 PCs, and anadd-on 17-gigabyte disk of memory, stacked on a bookshelf. Other universities ha...Drosophila genome sequence completed
...ame parts organized togetherin much the same way a supercomputer can be built from a bunch of desktop PCs hooked together in parallel." Rubin sees the genome drastically changing the pace of his research. With less than 15,000 genes in Drosophila , and some 5000 researchers worldwide working on the organism, ...Building better engines through natural selection
... date have been dramatic. Using a Silicon Graphics supercomputer at UW-Madison's Engine Research Center, Senecal created a diesel engine design that reduces nitric oxide emissions by three-fold and soot emissions by 50 percent over the best available technology. At the same time, the model reduced fuel consumption...Simple rules predict the outcome of predator-prey struggles
...hat only a highly sophisticated model running on a supercomputer could predict the outcome. Not necessarily so, say ecologists at Cornell University and North Carolina State University who have developed a new mathematical model: If just a few factors are sufficient to capture the essentials of predator-prey ba...Largest grant ever to Indiana U fuels Genomics Initiative
...omputing resources -- including anexpansion of its supercomputer system -- and the university's links to Internet2 and other high speed computing networks. "Information technology is essential to scientific progress in genomics research," said Michael A. McRobbie, IU vice presidentfor information technology and ch...New statistical method links multiple genes to common complex diseases
...hine learning algorithms and a new multi-processor supercomputer on campus, he estimates that they will be able to search for similar interactions among as many as 20 genes selected from a list of thousands of candidates....Gene-rich pufferfish DNA decoded
...tific Computing Center (NERSC)-the world's largest supercomputer dedicated to unclassified research. Chris Tan, founding Director of IMCB, says that the draft Fugu genome will yield much more accurate estimates of the gene repertoire in humans. "We will also now be able to refine many of the features of the non-c...Ancient supernova may have triggered eco-catastrophe
...ions. People study supernovae using telescopes and supercomputer simulations. In the future, some of the most relevant information in this field may be found in the deep ocean floor, says Bentez. While the new theory may further heighten concern about human impacts on the ozone layer today, Bentez and Maz-Apellniz...... created by SDSC's David Stockwell, which ran on a supercomputer provided by the NSF-funded National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure (NPACI). In a nutshell, what the researchers found is that over the next 50 years the changing climate is predicted to bring about great instability for wildli...Scientists document water molecule movement across cell walls
...are water molecules. The performance, captured by supercomputer simulation, casts new insight for biomedical researchers on the controlled movement of water through cell walls. Reporting in the April 19 issue of Science, researchers at the University of Illinois Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technolo...Rice building Texas' fastest academic supercomputer
...cience Foundation and Intel Corporation to build a supercomputer that will rank among the world's fastest. When ful...ations per second (FLOPs), the standard measure of supercomputer performance. The total cost for RTC is undetermined. Funding includes $1.15 million from the NSF. We...Web-based collaboration links labs to supercomputers
...ch and training process. With BioCoRE, users with supercomputer accounts gain seamless access to major National Science Foundation centers, such as NCSA at Illinois and PSC at Pittsburgh. Scientists communicate by way of a control panel, similar to instant-messaging software, and can access a complete archive to ...Folding@home scientists report first distributed computing success
...as IBM's $100-million, million-processor Blue Gene supercomputer project." Folding@home Two years ago, Pande launched Folding@home a distributed computing project that so far has enlisted the aid of more than 200,000 PC owners, whose screensavers are dedicated to simulating the protein-folding process. The Stanfo...Rice University announces nanotechnology research agreement with IBM
...cal and Environmental Nanotechnology (CBEN) with a supercomputer powerful enough to decipher the quantum phenomena ...er nanomaterials. CBEN researchers plan to use the supercomputer to find new ways to use nanomaterials to treat and diagnose disease and to clean pollutants from the...DENVER, CO - ALEC, a virtual supercomputer residing on planet Vearth, will attempt an unprecedented uplink between Earth and Vearth on Friday at 4 pm, Mountain Standard Time, in the Exposition Area of the AAAS Annual Meeting. The reason for the difficult and dangerous communication is to aler...