Using cloud
services within a modern IT environment is inevitable for many organisations, as the benefits
of greater flexibility, agility and lower cost are proven. But CIOs need assurances they can
continue to provide the same levels of service in a mixed environment of cloud and legacy IT as
they have done by relying on advanced tools to manage their in-house systems.
At a roundtable debate hosted by Computer Weekly, in association with Oracle, IT leaders met to share their experiences of managing service assurance and systems performance in cloud and legacy IT environments.
Several delegates agreed that the key potential benefits of moving to a cloud-style
infrastructure are:
At a roundtable debate hosted by Computer Weekly, in association with Oracle, IT leaders met to share their experiences of managing service assurance and systems performance in cloud and legacy IT environments.
- Chargeback – the ability to reclaim usage costs directly from users;
- Self-service – for users to turn resources on and off themselves on demand;
- Elasticity – whereby computing resources can be scaled up and down on demand.
Intel Parallel Studio
Regulation
of gene expression is a carefully regulated phenomenon in the cell.
"Reverse-engineering” algorithms try to reconstruct the regulatory
interactions among genes from genome-scale measurements of gene
expression profiles (microarrays). Mammalian cells express tens of
thousands of genes; hence, hundreds of gene expression profiles are
necessary in order to have acceptable statistical evidence of
interactions between genes. As the number of profiles to be analyzed
increases, so do computational costs and memory requirements. In this
work, we designed and developed a parallel computing algorithm to
reverse-engineer genome-scale gene regulatory networks from thousands of
gene expression profiles
