Itanium Solutions Alliance Humanitarian Impact Innovation Awards Finalist 2007: Interactive Supercomputing

Summary: Itanium Solutions Alliance, Vol. 5, "Interactive Supercomputing: Finalist in the Humanitarian Impact Innovation Awards for 2007", published June 26, 2007, with guest Bill Blake, CEO of Interactive Computing, Inc. For the fifth of this series, we discuss Interactive Supercomputing's innovative Star-P software system, which allows advanced desktop software such as Matlab and Python to "run" on supercomputer systems without having to reprogram the software, and its application to the National Cancer Institute's advanced genomic profiling computational work. For this work, Interactive Supercomputing was named a finalist in this year's Itanium Solutions Alliance awards, in the Humanitarian Impact Category.