Hadoop and Atom Counting

Over the past few months I’ve been hacking together scripts to distribute data parallel jobs. However, it’s always nice when somebody else has done the work. In this case, Hadoop is an implementation of the map/reduce framework from Google. As Yahoo and others have shown, it’s an extremely scalable framework, and when coupled with Amazons […]

Chemistry, Clouds, Collaboration (Part 1)

There’s been an interesting discussion sparked by Deepaks post, asking why there is a much smaller showing of chemists and chemistry applications in the cloud compared to other life science areas. This post led to a FriendFeed thread that raised a number of issues. At a high level one can easily point out factors such […]