I am quoted in there quite a bit. This is GenomeWeb magazine covering the many aspects of what is called Bio-IT. One of the massive problems around Bio-IT is moving data (go figure), storing data (again …), and processing data. I’ve heard some people provide arguments as to why accelerators won’t play there … and then I hear from people who have a limited time to get their work done, subject to an ever growing mound of data.

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[This was an older post from a few weeks ago, sitting in my queue. Cleared it out] Want to burn it in. Played with an experimental kernel, and found the Mellanox drivers wouldn’t build. Too many things have changed from 2.6.27 to 2.6.29.2. Ok, reloaded with Centos 5.3. Will stress test the default kernel. For some reason, we were hitting a strange SSD-RAID interaction, so I swapped out the SSD pair for spinning rust pair.

Technically, from a branding scenario, Chromium isn’t Chrome. Ignore that for a moment. Chromium is out for Linux. It is a new/alternative browser for Linux. It is much better than firefox in terms of raw speed. And from the memory leaks I have seen in the latest FF, and the instability of the program (its a crap shoot as to whether it will load a page or not, not to mention all the rendering bugs) … Chromium, in its current pre-alpha state, is a better browser than FF.

Interesting article in the Freep today. It points out that Michigan has shed about 700k jobs in a decade, while the MEDC has managed to create, or in more realistic terms, preserve, 43k jobs. Thats roughly 1 job created for every 16 lost. Understand that Michigan has been the home to the US auto industry, and in most cases, every other industry here has played, at best, a distant second fiddle to it from an economic and political clout view.

From Yahoo

This was bad of me. For years, we’ve been using self signed certs for lots of things. I figured we wouldn’t host our own store, or do other things like that. Well, all that is going to change. The Amazon web-store is actually hard to use, and costs us too much. Not to mention the various restrictions they impose. So we are moving the store to our server. Look for the announcement soon.

I’ve heard speculation of acquisitions. This would be the time for it. Valuations are down, and good companies can be had “on the cheap”. I’ve heard someone mention EMC as a target. Somehow … well … I don’t thinks so. Doesn’t seem like a good fit. I have a very odd sense of what a “good” fit would be. I am sure lots of folks will disagree. But it would solve many problems for Microsoft, right away.

HPC as a market, is under stress, and will continue to be for a while. The Inquirer has an interesting article saying very similar things to what I have been saying for a while about the market. It is a very good read. I’ve been saying for years … no … decades now … about 15 years to be frank, that HPC has been moving relentlessly downmarket. Each wave of its motion has a destructive impact upon the old order, and opens up the market wider to more people.

* thinking about work must solve a driver issue do this on monday # * ok, that was an attempt at a haiku … there is an implied newline after ‘work’, and ‘issue’. Maybe we need twitter-ku # Powered by Twitter Tools.