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White Paper This paper presents a series of benchmarks carried out on IBM pSeries p655 1.1 GHz and p630 1.0 GHz using BLAST (Basic Local Alignment Search Tool), one of the most popular and widely used programs for similarity searching. [03 Jul 2008]
Performance Characterization of BLAST on Intel EM64T Architecture
White Paper In addition, this paper examines the performance of the basic local alignment search tool (BLAST) in EM64T's various operating modes on a Dell PowerEdge 1850 server. Intel Extended Memory 64 Technology (EM64T) is... [19 Dec 2004]
Efficient Access to BLAST Using IBM DB2 Information Integrator
White Paper Life Science researchers frequently wish to integrate the BLAST (Basic Local Alignment Search Tool) algorithm with other related data sources, either to supply BLAST query sequences or to provide... [05 Nov 2004]
Implementation and Experimental Results of a Three-Transmitter Three-Receiver OFDM/BLAST Testbed
White Paper The performance and complexity of three typical BLAST detection techniques (linear detection, ordered decision feedback detection, and partial decision detection) are evaluated and compared using the data from the... [24 Mar 2005]
Performance Characterization of BLAST on 32-Bit and 64-Bit Dell PowerEdge Servers
White Paper The Dell high-performance computing team recently explored the effect of Intel Extended Memory 64 Technology (EM64T) on the performance of the basic local alignment search tool (BLAST), comparing BLAST... [07 May 2005]
Performance Characterization of BLAST on Intel EM64T Architecture
In addition, this paper examines the performance of the basic local alignment search tool (BLAST) in EM64T's various operating modes on a Dell PowerEdge 1850 server. Intel Extended Memory 64 Technology (EM64T) is... [19 Dec 2004]
Channel Estimation for D-BLAST OFDM Systems
White Paper This paper applies D-BLAST in Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) systems and addresses the issue of channel estimation. Different from other MIMO-OFDM, where symbols at all tones are always available for... [13 Apr 2007]
Oil depot blast takes down IT systems
News IT companies Northgate and 3Com and online fashion retailer ASOS were some of the businesses affected by the blast on Sunday morning. Local authorities - and the Labour Party - are still feeling the after-effects of the... [14 Dec 2005]
Sick virus writer exploits London bomb blast
News An email purporting to offer a link to amateur video footage of the events on the London Underground in the aftermath of the bomb blast will install a Trojan on users' machines if they click on the attachment. [09 Jul 2005]
Sequence Analysis in a Nutshell: BLAST
White Paper BLAST (Basic Local Alignment Search Tool) is probably the best-known program in sequence analysis. It compares two sequences by trying to align them, and is also used to lookup sequences in a database. [17 Oct 2007]
Some Practical Suggestions for Performing NCBI BLAST Benchmarks on a pSeries 690 System
White Paper This paper presents a study on the series of benchmarks carried out on pSeries servers using BLAST (Basic Local Alignment Search Tool), one of the most popular and widely used programs for similarity searching. [01 Oct 2004]
Bomb blast web traffic - more results
News Web traffic surged yesterday as British people looked for information after four bombs were set off in London. According to data from web monitoring company Hitwise, British clicks to news sites surged yesterday to 5.56 per cent of all... [08 Jul 2005]
Council of Europe set to blast cyber-crime off the web
News Child pornography and fraud are to be wiped from the internet as the Council of Europe gave the go ahead to the final version of a cyber-crime treaty today. The treaty also lays out ways for law enforcement agencies in different... [13 Nov 2001]
HP says it will blast past Street's targets
News HP is expected to smash analysts' expectation for its first quarter giving more weight to boss Carly Fiorina's planned merger with Compaq. Printer and PC sales have been better than expected with consumer spending on the upturn. [05 Feb 2002]
Italian UMTS auctions blast off
News The Andala consortium and Franco-Italian company Wind were the first entrants to bid in the beauty contest - upping the entrance fee from E2.06bn (£1.2bn) to E2.17bn (£1.26bn). Telcos expected to bid include BT's Blu, Vodafone's Omnitel,... [19 Oct 2000]
