This news warms my heart. As an Indiana University Bloomington grad and now working for a leading Infrastructure as a Service provider (cloud provider) I'm ecstatic to hear that my alma mater is heading to the clouds in a big way. Let's not be foolish to think that IU has been out of the cloud party completely, the IU School of Informatics is on top of their game. But now, with the news of a grant specifically dedicated to cloud computing, IU should be making some big leaps in the arena. Indiana University has received a $1.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop a software infrastructure and use cloud computing for a variety of life sciences and genomics data applications, IU said today.
"This research is potentially path-breaking," Peter Cherbas, a professor of biology and director of the IU Center for Genomics and Bioinformatics, said in a statement.
"Cloud computing approaches are likely to change the nature of our national research computing infrastructure in the coming years," said Principal Investigator Geoffrey Fox, director of the Digital Science Center and associate dean of research and graduate studies in the IU School of Informatics and Computing. "These technologies hold significant promise in the life sciences and medical sciences as they offer the potential for greater computational power and faster speeds at a lower cost, and in a way that is easier for scientists to use than traditional grid computing approaches."
"Contemporary DNA sequencing machines are churning out data at rates that would have been unimaginable to biologists just a few years ago,” he added. “To use these data — to turn data into some kind of understanding — will demand good tools for using the Cloud and those tools will impact genomics projects worldwide.”
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Click here to read the news release about IU's Cloud Computing grant.
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