And, Just When You Thought You Knew What Cloud Computing Was

Over at bbgm, Deepak Singh blogs about stream computing, a term IBM has coined to define its new software architecture, computing that will "break through the boundaries" of large volumes of data, operational complexity, and real-time business requirements. Deepak thinks that it could be well utilized by biologists, including serving the areas of "pharmacovigilance and infectious disease monitoring," he writes. "Of course, the compute power required to do so will be quite massive, and it’s easier to talk about this than put it into practice, but the possibilities are fun to contemplate."