Time: 3:30-4:20pm
Location: Room EP 122
Speaker: Rob Lyon, Director of IBEST Computational Resource Core
Title: High Performance Computing in Bioinformatics, or Should I take the Porche or the Station Wagon?
Bioinformatics, the study and application of computer science to biological questions, has rapidly expanded over the last few years. Next generation sequencing is now capable of producing petabytes of data so powerful tools and enormous amounts of computational power are needed to process the data. Unfortunately, bioinformatics tools and applications are lagging years behind the hardware and many tools have never been designed to take advantage of computing in a parallel environment.
We will also discuss areas within bioinformatics where computer scientists with a deep understanding of parallel computing, data processing and performance optimization at a hardware and software level can make significant contributions to the field.
Bioinformatics, the study and application of computer science to biological questions, has rapidly expanded over the last few years. Next generation sequencing is now capable of producing petabytes of data so powerful tools and enormous amounts of computational power are needed to process the data. Unfortunately, bioinformatics tools and applications are lagging years behind the hardware and many tools have never been designed to take advantage of computing in a parallel environment.
We will also discuss areas within bioinformatics where computer scientists with a deep understanding of parallel computing, data processing and performance optimization at a hardware and software level can make significant contributions to the field.
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