Molecular biologists around the world are currently creating a high-resolution genetic map with the 1000 Genomes Project, which they hope will contain all the common gene variations in the major populations.
But now, increasingly, the bottleneck is becoming data transfer between centers.
“I was flabbergasted to learn that today computer science isn't even taught as standard in UK schools,” said Google Chairman, Eric Schmidt, at the Edinburgh International Television Festival last week.
As natural disasters strike worldwide, leaving a path of destruction and death in their wake, grids can help mitigate these hazards. Now a new web portal gives weather researchers access to the vast resources of the Grid.
Rotors are slowed down by the turbulent wakes they leave behind in the air. But now researchers are using GPU machines to improve the fluid dynamics codes used for rotorcraft design.
