February 9, 2012
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Federating Computing for the Life Sciences: Towards a Universal Platform
Speaker: Karim Chine, Software Architect and Coordinator, Biocep

R , the open-source software environment for statistical computing and graphics, is becoming the lingua franca of data analysis. Repositories of contributed R packages related to a variety of problem domains in life sciences are growing at an exponential rate. Scilab , the open-source software package for numerical computations, is becoming more and more widely used for scientific applications. The ubiquitous Java technologies allow the building of highly effective platform-independent distributed systems and graphical user interfaces. Virtualization technologies allow the creation, distribution and reuse in any environment of snapshots of operating systems, computing software stacks and data sets. Those snapshots (or virtual images) can be run and used either locally, or on public clouds (Amazon EC2) or on private clouds (Eucalyptus System). Biocep builds with these ingredients and others a universal open-source computing platform that creates an open environment for the production, sharing and reuse of all the artifacts of computing. It enables a centralized and strictly controlled access within the organization to the hardware and software computational resources and It provides frameworks and tools for the rapid creation of easily

 

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