July 7, 1999
The Hospital for Sick Children to host Genome Database on "Deep Maple'' IBM supercomputer
The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) will tomorrow that it will use IBM's ``deep computing'' technology and bioinformatics software to host and help manage the Genome Database (GDB), the repository for all data generated by the international Human Genome Project.
SickKids has taken over the GDB management from Johns Hopkins University after funding cuts in the U.S. threatened the ongoing viability of the GDB. The GDB will reside on ``Deep Maple'', the nickname given by SickKids information scientists to its new IBM RS/6000 SP system, donated by IBM through its Shared University Research Program.
Media announcement:
Thursday, July 8, 1999
1 p.m.
Rotunda, 1st Floor, University Wing
The Hospital for Sick Children
555 University Avenue
Scheduled speakers:
Jamie Cuticchia, PhD
(pronounced Koo-TEE-shaw)
Director, Bioinformatics
The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto
Sharon Nunes, PhD
(pronounced Noons)
Director, IBM computational Biology Center
Thomas J. Watson Research Center,
New York
Following the announcement there will be opportunities to obtain photos and video footage of the IBM RS/6000 SP system.
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