Laser Friday
News on lasers of all sizes hitting targets of all sizes… let’s start small – hey, small is beautiful, after all. Besides, this is one laser you could own at a reasonable size one day. Small Gun, Lots of Small Targets Former Microsoft CTO Nathan Myhrvold currently runs aptly named Intellectual Ventures. At TED (not [...]
Should Scientists Use Microsoft’s Free Cloud Services Offerings?
Image via Wikipedia I am a strong proponent of using cloud computing for scientific research. Some of my posts on the topic are listed below. LHC Computing Grid and the New Era of Scientific Computing Cloud Computing and Science – Mathematica Embraces Cloud Computing Cloud Computing and Science – MATLAB on Clouds Amazon Tries to [...]
Organizations’ Innovation Dark Energy – Employee Motivations
Scientists estimate that 74% of the mass-energy of the universe is made up of dark energy. Dark energy is an expansive form of energy that fills the empty space between cosmological objects. Scientists know it’s there, but they can’t see it. Dark energy is a useful metaphor for understanding organizations’ challenge and opportunity in innovation. [...]
Reverse Brain Drain to India and China
America is a great place to start a company, there are no questions about that, and when Governments were busy making it harder to start a company, many immigrants came to America. Reports state that 52% of all Silicon Valley companies were started by Immigrants, and we have HP and Google as prime examples of [...]
Biotech Companies And Cloud Computing
I am a strong advocate of using the Cloud Computing in scientific research. Even though my emphasis was on academia, I have also written about how Biotech and Pharma companies are taking advantage of the Clouds in their operations. The security and privacy questions are still lingering in the minds of these companies but they [...]
Scientists And Cloud Computing – Part 2
Image via Wikipedia This is the second post in the series on how scientists could use Cloud Computing to their advantage. In this post, I will list out some examples where scientists had taken advantage of the scale and flexibility offered by the Clouds in their research. ALICE HEP Experiment at CERN: A group of scientists working at CERN on [...]
Scientists And Cloud Computing – Part 1
Again and again in this space, I have pushed the idea of scientific community tapping into Cloud Computing for their academic research. I have argued that it will save tons of money and time for the scientists. Of late, we are hearing many success stories about scientists and other academics tapping into the Clouds for their research. In this [...]
Academic Research On Cloud Computing Gets Funded
According to HPC Wire, San Diego Supercomputer Center is getting funded by NSF for research on Cloud Computing. Researchers from the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego, have been awarded a two-year, $450,000 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to explore new ways for academic researchers to manage extremely large data sets [...]
Bay Area User Group Meeting: Cloud Computing and R
Tomorrow (ie., Feb. 4th 2009), Bay Area user group is going to host a talk by Karim Chine, author of Biocep platform. As a strong advocate of Cloud Computing for scientific research purposes, I find this project interesting. I am in touch with Karim and I will be doing a post in this space sometime [...]
Amazon Tries to Lure Scientific Community into the Clouds
Image by via CrunchBase I am a strong believer of the utility of Cloud Computing in scientific research. Computing resources over clouds, along with its inherent advantages, are a boon to the cash starved scientific community. I have talked about this again and again. I am not alone in this and there are many others who believe in the [...]
Cloud Computing and Science – MATLAB on Clouds
I am a strong advocate of using Cloud Computing in Science. I had talked about it in my post on LHC Computing and, again, when I wrote about Mathematica embracing the clouds. Through Jinesh’s post on AWS Blog, I came across a whitepaper that explains how one can run MATLAB, proprietary technical computing software from [...]
Cloud Computing and Science – Mathematica Embraces Cloud Computing
Image via Wikipedia Scientists are always in need of poweful computing resources to do complex calculations. They have relied on everything from super computer to distributed systems like SETI@HOME. In fact, High Performance Computing (HPC) can accelerate the speed at which science is done and can open up new vistas to scientists. Scientific community has [...]
