DeepSci

Link: http://DeepSci.com/blog

Blue Waters is a supercomputer that will be used to tackle research challenges in proteomics, genomics, modeling of macromolecular complex structures and others that simply cannot be performed on any other available computing resources.

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Blue Waters is a petascale supercomputer funded by the National Science Foundation and the University of Illinois. It will be under construction until 2011 and located at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

The machine is based on IBM's POWER7 processors and will be the first to use a technology IBM calls PERCS (Productive, Easy-to-use, Reliable Computing System). Blue Waters will employ more then 200,000 processor cores and will provide more than 800 terabytes of memory.

Dec 17, 2PM Eastern time, 2hr webinar on Blue Waters supercomputer will discuss opportunities for scientists to access resources of the NSF-funded Blue Waters petascale computing system.

A permenant list of collaberators is being formed:

http://www.nigms.nih.gov/bluewaters/input

The next round of proposals are due March 17, 2010

Scientific areas of interest include, but are not limited to:

> Protein structure prediction from sequence

> Prediction of protein-ligand and protein-protein interactions

> Modeling of macromolecular complex structures by combinations of experimental methods

> Simulation of enzymatic mechanisms and their coupling to macromolecular dynamics

> Analysis and simulation of biological systems of material and information processing

> Genetics of genes, proteins, organisms and populations, and their evolutionary pathways

> Patterns of infectious disease communication and development of resistance

Each year, NSF expects to allocate computing time to 10-12 projects that simply cannot be performed on any other available computing resources. If you want to advance your research before 2011, or are not one of the lucky dozen to access the 200,000 processors, you might consider tapping in to volunteer computing resources and accessing more than 500,000 home computers. Some computing algorithms, simulations and models can be adapted to this sort of loosely-coupled architecture. http://DeepSci.com can help you do just that.