The Internet Was Delivered to the Masses; Parallel Computing Is Not Far Behind
Wednesday, August 20, 2014 - 08:30
in Mathematics & Economics
The groundwork for Virginia Tech's Wu Feng's big data research in a "cloud" began in the mid-2000s with a multi-institutional effort to identify missing gene annotations in genomes. Today, this work is being formalized and extended as part of an National Science Foundation/Microsoft Computing in the Cloud grant that seeks to commoditize biocomputing in the cloud.