Scientists show what 100M computing hours on Google’s cloud can do
December 18, 2012
Grazed from GigaOM. Author: Derrick Harris.
In the latest case of researchers using the cloud for good, Google is highlighting the six projects to which it awarded grants via its Exacycle for Visiting Faculty program. Ranging from genomic research to astronomy, the researchers received 100 million computing hours apiece.
Deep in the bowels of Google’s offices in Mountain View, Calif., and Seattle, a group of researchers has been consuming an incredible amount of computing resources trying to make scientific discoveries that they hope will help change the world…
On Monday, Google announced on its Research Blog the six projects which it granted 100 million core-computing hours apiece as part of the Google Exacycle for Visiting Faculty program last year. The projects, most of which are led by university researchers (and one by a Google researcher), tackle a variety of pharmaceutical and biological challenges, as well as the problem of analyzing petabytes of data generated by a forthcoming astronomical survey project. The latter hopes to “[reduce] the time required to simulate one night of [Large Synoptic Survey Telescope] observing, roughly 5 million images, from 3 months down to a few days.”…
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