With a 14 GB database, the Department of Energy Human Genome Project (HGP) at Los Alamos National Laboratory unquestionably qualifies for the "heavy computing" label. According to DB Administrator Robert Sutherland, the database has doubled in size every 15 months since 1989 when sequencing work began. The Los Alamos HGP relies on Sun technology to keep itself up and running. [...read more...]

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