Big Data, Big Computation and the G...

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The human genome is made up of 3 billion base pairs. Reading the genome from a modern, high-speed sequencer is a lot like doing a big jigsaw puzzle. Computer Scientist, Assistant Professor Yanlei Diao (UMass Amherst) leads a multi i...

Quantum Mechanics, Squishy Material...

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Typically plants need an average of at least a few hundred watts per square meter of solar radiation to survive. At depths of a few hundred meters down in the ocean, the amount of solar radiation decays to around a millionth of the surfa...

"I think we are going to need a bi...

Computational Research in Boston and Beyond

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JAMES CUFF (Harvard University) For the past four and a half years, we have been slowly coordinating and compiling existing and net new computing assets at Harvard University. Growth from 200 to over 12,000 processing cores has su...