Compute farm

Compute farms are ideally suited to molecular-scaffold generation in de novo design, because the process can be split into complete runs that can be distributed onto different processors. It scales linearly and is embarrassingly parallel. 

BioRuby performs the usual bioinformatic tasks in a similar manner to the previous Bio packages but uses the Ruby language. BioPipe is a recent attempt to release some generic code for automation of bioinformatics workflows on large compute-farms and has arisen from the Ensembl project s pipeline code. All the Bio projects contain extensive documentation, tutorials, and useful mailing lists on their Web sites and are under active development. 

The success of the DFT approach will probably make the traditional ab initio procedures faster, up to the development of methods with linear scaling (with the number of electrons for long molecules). The massively parallel computer farms" with 2000 processors currently to millions expected to come soon, will saturate most demands of experimental chemistry. The results will be calculated fast it will be much more difficult to define an interesting... 

The hardware situation continued to evolve. Personal computers became ever more powerful in terms of speed and the amount of random access memory (RAM) and hard drive capacity. The price of PCs continued to fall. Clusters of PCs were built. Use of the open-source Linux operating system spread in the 1990s. Distributed processing was developed so a long calculation could be farmed out to separate machines. Massively parallel processing was tried. All these changes meant that the days of the supercomputers were numbered. 

At Work Technolgy, such as computers and automated farm and factory equipment, lead to more desk jobs Fewer jobs require manual labor... 

More advanced applications of e-agriculture in farming exist in the use of sophisticated information and communication technologies such as satellite systems, Global Positioning Systems (GPS), and advanced computers and electronic systems to improve the quantity and quality of production (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations 2005). 

Odour prevention and control of organic sludge and livestock farming 326 integrated computer based system. 

In secondary-ion mass spectrometery (SIMS) and its sister technique fast atom bombardment mass spectrometry (FARMS), a surface is bombarded with energetic particles, and the kinetic energy of the particles converts substrate and chemisorbed atoms and molecules to gas-phase species. The ejected (or sputtered) material is subsequently interrogated using various analytical tools, such as lasers and mass spectrometers, to indirectly deduce information about the initial surface. The relationships between sputtered material and the surface, however, are not always clear, and erroneous conclusions are easily made. Computer simulations have demonstrated that a fundamental understanding of the sputtering process is required to interpret experimental data fully ... 

Off-farm calculations, using computer models, allow the definition of optimal balance ranges and offer alternative measures of optimising the environmental adaptation of the production level of farming systems (Biermann et al. 1997 Htllsbergen et al. 1997). 

Dimoglo, A.S. (1985) Compositional approach to electronic structure description of chemical compounds, oriented on computer analysis of structure-activityrelationships. Khim-Farm. Zh., 4, 438 44. 

Engines and turbines Farm, construction, and mining machinery Materials handling machinery and equipment Metalworking machinery and equipment Special industry machinery and equipment General industrial machinery and equipment Miscellaneous machinery, except electrical Computer and qffice equipment Service industry machin- ery... 

Computers handle it and enable it, but knowledge is still the mysterious beast that somehow they help manage, tame, and even farm, but cannot harness 100% without human experts. 

Electronic computers will play an increasing role in farm management decisions. As records are accumulated on past operations and... 

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