http://sun.systemnews.com Life Sciences http://sun.systemnews.com/articles/97/5/Life/15984 The SunTM Discovery Cluster for Life Sciences, a turnkey solution engineered expressly to answer the demands of biotech, pharmaceuticals, academic and other life sciences organizations, offers users a cost-effective implementation with good ROI. Andy Bechtolsheim, Sun founder and chief architect, leads a Sun Net talk discussion on the Sun Discovery Cluster. http://sun.systemnews.com/articles/97/5/Life/15995 The Bio-ClusterGrid is the first of many deployment architectures that realizes the benefit of the BioBox initiative. The Bio-ClusterGrid is a package of open-source Grid Engine, Sun JavaTM System Portal Server, open-source bioinformatics applications and integration scripts. The whole package is aimed to set up a decent size bioinformatics cluster in a matter of hours. http://sun.systemnews.com/articles/86/1/Life/14300 A Sun technical white paper highlights the latest Sun technologies that are benefiting the Life Sciences community in performance, reliability and ease of use. Entitled, "Sun Bio Workstation & Bio Cluster," this paper details the specifications of Sun hardware and software that comprise these solutions and how they can be applied in the Life Sciences. http://sun.systemnews.com/articles/86/1/Life/14306 An impressively ambitious project in itself – cataloging the species living in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park – has expanded under the auspices of the Polistes Foundation to compile a knowledge base for the study of education, health, agriculture, economic development and conservation worldwide. Sun servers running the Solaris TM Operating System (Solaris OS) power the project. http://sun.systemnews.com/articles/76/3/Life/13073 The Life Sciences Information Technology Global Institute is a recently formed nonprofit group that wants to develop standards for collecting, storing and analyzing the copious amounts of scientific data created during new drug development. Sun is involved with the creation of new standards in this area. http://sun.systemnews.com/articles/76/3/Life/12881 The Blueprint Initiative at the Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute in Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, employs the Biomolecular Interaction Network Database (BIND) to enumerate and study proteins and their interactions for research into the treatment of HIV, cancer and other diseases. The Institute is the world's largest protein interaction database research facility. Sun provides the IT infrastructure. http://sun.systemnews.com/articles/76/3/Life/13237 AMISYS Advance Release 2 and CDHP Web Solution are two newly released software programs designed to make health plan operations more flexible and cost-efficient. http://sun.systemnews.com/articles/73/5/Life/12592 Dr. Stefan Unger, business development manager, computational biology in global education and research, science and engineering at Sun, praised the reliability of Sun technology and how it can help Malaysian biologists avoid the difficulties that have beset other adopters of Linux clusters. http://sun.systemnews.com/articles/73/5/Life/12593 Sun and the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) have signed a memorandum of understanding to create a Center of Excellence (COE) for e-learning under the auspices of the Virtual Academy for the Semi-Arid Tropics (VASAT). http://sun.systemnews.com/articles/73/5/Life/12597 The Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) Data Center at Dartmouth College maintains a repository of image files of use to neuroscientists. The files are accessed and shared, creating a need for a storage solution that can grow as the archive needs grow. The center turned to Sun and StorageTek.