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If you read this blog regularly, you might know that we’re currently developing some new model-based computer vision technology that enables detailed information to be extracted automatically from large volumes of high-definition video. This is a computationally intensive activity - both on the storage and CPU fronts. We’re building a compute [...]
If you’re interested in computing, you might be interested in what’s happening within the particle physics community right now - in particular, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Particle physics not your bag? Well, remember that the World Wide Web came out of this community… and the computing they’re doing right now could help [...]
A few weeks ago, on 26 January, I blogged about our impending purchase of some computer hardware. We’re building a high-performance compute grid to meet the needs of one of our key projects - developing a new technology that can automatically, and intelligently, analyse large volumes of high-definition digital video. On [...]
We’re in the process of buying some computer hardware to build a high-performance, scalable computer system to enable some complex (read CPU-intensive), fully-automated analyses of large volumes (think hundreds of terabytes) of high-definition digital video. For this system, my first choice of operating system is Solaris x86. We’re planning on managing the system by [...]
Tim Bray is talking about Grids today. His article, On Grids, is worth a read if you’re interested in Grids. I have a couple of comments.
Let’s put that another way: memory space and compute cycles are pretty cheap. Disk space is effectively free. Moving data around in large quantities is expensive. In [...]
If you’ve followed computing in the Life Sciences, you’ll know that during the last ten years there’s been constant talk about the so-called “data explosion”. In the late 1990s, much to our amusement, barely a week would go buy without receiving some marketing letter from a vendor telling us how our data was [...]
Sun Microsystems Inc ( SUNW ) is shortly to make its Grid Compute Utility offering generally available, initially to customers based in the US. In his blog post, entitled The Network Is The Computer, Sun’s President and COO, Jonathan Schwartz, gives some of the details. The question, then, is - does Sun’s [...]