Archive for the ‘Cloud Computing’ Category
Scientific computing ready cloud service
A new cloud service provider PiCloud is in town. PiCloud’s cloud-computing platform is a Python centric service which can be accessed by importing PiCloud’s cloud library in your Python scripts. User can leverage the power of the cloud in 3 [...]
Efficient Graph Algorithms in MapReduce
In this video Jimmy Lin talks about current best practices in designing large-scale graph algorithms in MapReduce. Most of MapReduce based graph processing algorithms have performance limiting shortcomings, especially those related to partitioning, serial-izing, and distributing the graph. He presents [...]
Beyond the data clouds
No doubt, cloud computing is hot at the moment. Everyone is jumping onto the bandwagon before it become too late for them. Currently data clouds seems to be a major focus for most of the companies and institutions adopting cloud [...]
Translational bioinformatics in the cloud
There is no doubt that large scale on demand computing in cloud can be highly affordable. Right now Bioinformatics and Genomics community is really enjoying this affordability. In a latest article published in Genome Medicine the leading translational bioinformatics researcher [...]
Debunking the myths of cloud computing
A new cloud monitoring service, CloudSleuth, is debunking the myths of cloud computing. CloudSleuth is monitoring the user experience of leading cloud providers such as Google App, Microsoft Azure, Amazon EC2, Rackspace Cloud in near real time. Surprisingly Microsoft Azure, [...]
What I learned about cloud computing in last few weeks
In order to move my blog from blogger platform to wordpress, for last few weeks I was experimenting with different cloud hosting services. Although I am using Rackspace cloud server for quite sometime now, I wanted to switch all my [...]
Living in the cloud with PC-over-IP
Recently I had chance to attend the latest VMware Virtualization Seminar Series in Auckland. While I liked the entire event, I was particularly excited about the PC-over-IP (PCoIP) protocol, a remote desktop solution designed and developed by Teradici. PC-over-IP protocol [...]
Google BigQuery and Prediction APIs = Wishlist of a computational biologist
Recent Google IO was amazing, from a developer’s point of view I liked most of talks. But this particular talk about latest Google offering BigQuery and Prediction APIs is of particular interest for bioinformatics and computational biology community. While Google’s [...]
MapReduce goes evolutionary
Scientists from Texas A&M University have developed a new algorithm MrsRF (MapReduce Speeds up Robinson-Foulds) for analyzing large collection of evolutionary trees using MapReduce framework. Matthews et. al, have used their MapReduce algorithm to compute all-to-all Robinson-Foulds (RF) distance matrix [...]
When easy technology comes with uneasy bugs
Brad Templeton chairman of the Electronic Frontier Foundation talks about the dark side of cloud computing and one click technolgies. Brad who is strong advocate for improving civil rights and privacy in cyberspace suggests that devil is in the detail [...]
