Category Archives: Software

What Can You Do with a $15k NVIDIA Data Science Workstation? – Change Healthcare Data Science

Posted on March 4, 2020 by Brett Newman

NVIDIA’s Data Science Workstation Platform is designed to bring the power of accelerated computing to a broad set of data science workflows. Recently, we found out what happens when you lend a talented data scientist (with a serious appetite for … Continue reading →

Improvements in scaling of Bowtie2 alignment software and implications for RNA-Seq pipelines

Posted on June 28, 2019 by Adam Marko (for Microway)

 This is a guest post by Adam Marko, an IT and Biotech Professional with 10+ years of experience across diverse industries What is Bowtie2? Bowtie2 is a commonly used, open-source, fast, and memory efficient application used as part of a … Continue reading →

CryoEM takes center stage: how compute, storage, and networking needs are growing with CryoEM research

Posted on April 11, 2019 by Adam Marko (for Microway)

 This is a guest post by Adam Marko, an IT and Biotech Professional with 10+ years of experience across diverse industries Background and history Cryogenic Electron Microscopy (CryoEM) is a type of electron microscopy that images molecular samples embedded in … Continue reading →

NVIDIA Datacenter Manager (DCGM) for More Effective GPU Management

Posted on April 1, 2018 by Brett Newman

Managing an HPC server can be a tricky job, and managing multiple servers even more complex. Adding GPUs adds even more power yet new levels of granularity. Luckily, there’s a powerful, and effective tool available for managing multiple servers or … Continue reading →

One-shot Learning Methods Applied to Drug Discovery with DeepChem

Posted on July 26, 2017 by John Murphy

Experimental data sets for drug discovery are sometimes limited in size, due to the difficulty of gathering this type of data. Drug discovery data sets are expensive to obtain, and some are the result of clinical trials, which might not … Continue reading →

DeepChem – a Deep Learning Framework for Drug Discovery

Posted on April 28, 2017 by John Murphy

A powerful new open source deep learning framework for drug discovery is now available for public download on github. This new framework, called DeepChem, is python-based, and offers a feature-rich set of functionality for applying deep learning to problems in … Continue reading →

GPU-accelerated HPC Containers with Singularity

Posted on April 11, 2017 by Eliot Eshelman

Fighting with application installations is frustrating and time consuming. It’s not what domain experts should be spending their time on. And yet, every time users move their project to a new system, they have to begin again with a re-assembly … Continue reading →

More Tips on OpenACC Acceleration

Posted on July 25, 2016 by John Murphy

One blog post may not be enough to present all tips for performance acceleration using OpenACC. So here, more tips on OpenACC acceleration are provided, complementing our previous blog post on accelerating code with OpenACC. Further tips discussed here are: … Continue reading →

Can I use Deep Learning?

Posted on June 30, 2016 by Eliot Eshelman

If you’ve been reading the press this year, you’ve probably seen mention of deep learning or machine learning. You’ve probably gotten the impression they can do anything and solve every problem. It’s true that computers can be better than humans … Continue reading →

Deep Learning Applications in Science and Engineering

Posted on June 29, 2016 by John Murphy

Over the past decade, and particularly over the past several years, Deep learning applications have been developed for a wide range of scientific and engineering problems. For example, deep learning methods have recently increased the level of significance of the … Continue reading →