Dr. Janies' work featured in Columbus Dispatch, Business First Magazine regarding expansion of supercomputer
Monday 03/02/2009
"We believe that this expansion will give us the capacity to put ourselves on
a posture to go after millions in NIH funding," said Supercomputer Center
Executive Director Stanley Ahalt.
One researcher who hopes to take advantage is Daniel Janies, associate
professor of biomedical informatics at Ohio State. His research tracks bird
flu strains from bird to human and region to region. There is so much data
involved that the use of a supercomputer is the only way to analyze it.
"To
feel like we've figured out a story of avian flu would take many person-years
on a PC,"
Janies said. "But using a supercomputer, it takes that down to a month."
Supercomputer to get big boost Columbus Dispatch, March 2, 2009
State OKs souping up supercomputer Columbus Business First, February 4, 2009