Thanks Patrick,
Group: What do you think? I am thinking of staying out of it this year. It
requires me to work at Google part-time which will be crazy given the size
of the group :) Also, let's use the WCG well before we go that crazy.
Perhaps next year, or if I am on sabbatical :)
Alan
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On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 7:42 PM, Patrick Rebentrost
<rebentr(a)fas.harvard.edu>wrote;wrote:
FYI.
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/04/1-billion-computing-core-hours-for.h…
1 billion computing core-hours for researchers to tackle huge scientific
challenges<http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/04/1-billion-computing-co…
4/07/2011 03:24:00 PM
Computing is an invaluable resource for advancement of scientific
breakthroughs. Today we’re announcing an academic research grant program
called Google Exacycle for Visiting
Faculty<http://research.google.com/university/exacycle_program.html>ml>,
which provides 1 billion hours of computational
core<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-core_processor>capacity to researchers.
That’s orders of magnitude larger than the
computational resources most scientists normally have access to.
This program is focused on large-scale, batch computations in research
areas such as biomedicine, energy, weather and climate, earth sciences and
astronomy. For example, scientists could use massive amounts of computation
to simulate how pharmaceuticals interact with proteins in the human body to
develop new medicines. Other uses could include simulations to predict
weather patterns and analysis of telescope images to understand how the
universe changes over time.
Exacycle for Visiting Faculty is part of our University
Relations<http://research.google.com/university/index.html>team’s larger efforts to
stimulate advances in science and engineering
research. If you're a full-time faculty member, we encourage you to
apply<http://research.google.com/university/exacycle_program.html>by May 31, 2011.
In the future, we think this service could also be useful for businesses in
various industries, like biotech, financial services, manufacturing and
energy. If your business can benefit from hundreds of millions of core-hours
to solve complex technical challenges and you want to discuss potential
applications, please contact
us<https://spreadsheets0.google.com/a/google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?hl…
.
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