PolITiGenomics

Politics, Information Technology, and Genomics

Keystone award for data center

Wednesday, November 5th, 2008 Posted in IT | No Comments »

The Genome Center's new Data Center Building won the prestigious (I'm told) Keystone Award for Project of the Year from the St. Louis Association of General Contractors. This award is ... Read more..

Estimating data center power

Thursday, June 5th, 2008 Posted in IT | No Comments »

On a mailing list I am on, someone posted this question. Here's a slightly off topic question. My company is looking at doing some engineering for a computer data center. ... Read more..

Construction delays

Monday, March 3rd, 2008 Posted in IT, genomics | No Comments »

Here is another update on the progress of construction for the Genome Data Center. Below is a picture of our 2 MW generator. Unfortunately, we will not ... Read more..

Genome data center

Thursday, January 31st, 2008 Posted in IT, genomics | 1 Comment »

The Genome Center (where I work) is building a new data center. With the avalanche of data that the next-generation sequencers, we need a significant expansion in computing and ... Read more..