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Leveraging Fat Nodes To Get Around I/O Bottlenecks

February 8, 2021 Rob Farber Comments Off on Leveraging Fat Nodes To Get Around I/O Bottlenecks

BioTeam, the famous HPC consulting practice, is using the quad-socket large memory nodes at the Texas Advanced Computing Center to speed alignment and HMM (Hidden Markov Model) inference workflows to find biological “synonyms” in biological databases like GenBank. …

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