GPGPU (General Purpose Graphics Processor Unit) technology in particular has attracted significant attention as new software development capabilities, namely CUDA (Compute Unified Device Architecture) and OpenCL™, have made it possible for students as well as small and large research organizations to achieve excellent speedup for many applications over more conventional computing architectures.
This policy seems to be adopted now by large research organizations like the NIH and the Wellcome Trust, who have already removed genetic data from their websites [ 6].
CSIC is Spain's largest research organization, employing some 6000 researchers in more than 120 institutes that span all disciplines, from biology and materials science to the humanities.
The company says it has the largest research organization of its kind and is a prolific publisher of academic-style papers, which it shares openly.
At the city's outskirts are the Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute and the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, the country's largest research organization.
ROME On Saturday, Massimo Inguscio will take over from engineer Luigi Nicolais as president of Italy's largest research organization, the National Research Council (CNR).
► Tomorrow, Italian optical physicist Massimo Inguscio will take over as president of the National Research Council, Italy's largest research organization, Edwin Cartlidge reported on Thursday.
The Brain Science Institute (BSI) at RIKEN, Japan's largest research organization, and the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST), an interdisciplinary graduate university located at the southernmost tip of Japan, have been collaborating with the HBP since 2013 and applying their expertise in supercomputer-based models and simulations.
More important for Mr. Weill is that Ms. Krawcheck clean up Smith Barney's image and prune what still remains one of Wall Street's larger research organizations.
Despite the strain of travel, Cech says, becoming president of HHMI will be a "dream job": He gets to steer one of the world's largest research organizations without having to do any fund-raising.
