{"102451":{"#nid":"102451","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Venture Capital in the Life Sciences","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGeomeWeb.com, Jun \u002709\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E - Last year\u0027s June issue of Genome Technology included a feature story that delved into the world of venture capital in the life sciences. Even a year ago, the marketplace for new life science startup companies was becoming a bit tighter than it had been in the past, though investments were still being made. \/ \/ That year the magazine also spoke with SUNY Buffalo\u0027s Jeffrey Skolnick, who was ahead of the curve and replacing his 4,000-processor cluster with a 1.32 teraflop IBM blade system. The blades, he said, allowed for a smaller footprint. Skolnick has since moved to GEORGIA TECH, where he heads up the Center for the Study of Systems Biology. One of the facilities at the center is a RAZOR cluster, a 1,000-node IBM cluster that can perform 8.5 trillion calculations per second. As of January 2007, the cluster contained 1,154 blades. (\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.genomeweb.com\/venture-capital-hot-spots-salary-surveys-past-blade-computing\u0022\u003EFull Story\u003C\/a\u003E)\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGeomeWeb.com, Jun \u002709\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E - Last year\u0027s June issue of Genome Technology included a feature story that delved into the world of venture capital in the life sciences. Even a year ago, the marketplace for new life science startup companies was becoming a bit tighter than it had been in the past, though investments were still being made. \/ \/ That year the magazine also spoke with SUNY Buffalo\u0027s Jeffrey Skolnick, who was ahead of the curve and replacing his 4,000-processor cluster with a 1.32 teraflop IBM blade system. The blades, he said, allowed for a smaller footprint. Skolnick has since moved to GEORGIA TECH, where he heads up the Center for the Study of Systems Biology. One of the facilities at the center is a RAZOR cluster, a 1,000-node IBM cluster that can perform 8.5 trillion calculations per second. As of January 2007, the cluster contained 1,154 blades. (\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.genomeweb.com\/venture-capital-hot-spots-salary-surveys-past-blade-computing\u0022\u003EFull Story\u003C\/a\u003E)","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Venture capital, hot spots, salary surveys past, blade computin"}],"uid":"27245","created_gmt":"2009-07-02 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:11:13","author":"Troy Hilley","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2009-07-02T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2009-07-02T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"102461":{"id":"102461","type":"image","title":"Skolnick","body":null,"created":"1449178174","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:29:34","changed":"1475894723","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:45:23"}},"media_ids":["102461"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.genomeweb.com\/venture-capital-hot-spots-salary-surveys-past-blade-computing","title":"Genome Web"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.biology.gatech.edu\/faculty\/jeffrey-skolnick\/","title":"Jeff Skolnick"},{"url":"http:\/\/cssb.biology.gatech.edu\/","title":"Center for the Study of Sytems Biology"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?eurl=http%3A\/\/cssb.biology.gatech.edu\/index.html\u0026feature=player_embedded\u0026v=n7dzEHm0a5I","title":"Video of Jeff Skolnick"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.biology.gatech.edu\/","title":"School of Biology"}],"groups":[{"id":"1275","name":"School of Biological Sciences"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003ESchool of Biology\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBiology\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:admin@biology.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EContact School of Biology\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-894-3700\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["admin@biology.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}