high performance computing

Federal Lab, IBM Open Door To High Speed Computing For Big Data Users

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In a sign that the worlds of big data and government-owned high performance computing centers are beginning to converge, the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and IBM announced that they are joining forces to help boost the competitiveness of U.S. industries in the global economy.

The announcement drew the attention and praise of Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) during a Capitol Hill briefing June 27, during which Feinstein stressed the growing importance of high performance computing and data analytics in the U.S. Keep reading →

 /  Published June 28, 2012 at 4:02 PM

Innovation At NIH: Visible Human Data Drives New Pursuits

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This is the third in a series of articles examining how NIH, among other government agencies, is infusing innovation into the federal workplace.

By some measures, the data captured in Visible Human Project (VHP) is from another era – it dates back some 18 years to 1994. Yet this 20th century data – now available as an iPhone and iPad app – is still innovative enough to be the cornerstone of iAnatomy, one of five winners of the 2011 National Library of Medicine (NLM) “Show Off Your Apps Challenge”. Keep reading →

 /  Published June 4, 2012 at 10:01 AM