Two years ago, Bio-IT World first reported on a little-known topic of “cloud computing,” when former BioTeam consultant Mike Cariaso recounted his early experiments with Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). It turned out his colleagues were also dabbling with the cloud, and they soon realized that this was more than just a cute toy for [...]

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by Greg Pfister
Multicore is the wave of the future. Cloud Computing is the wave of the future. Do they get along? My take: Eh. Sorta. There are the usual problems with parallel programming support, despite hubbub about parallel languages and runtimes and ever bigger multicores.
Multicore announcements in particular have been rampant recently. Not just the [...]

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