Flatiron Institute

PacBio Announces the Appointment of Olga Troyanskaya from Princeton University to the Scientific Advisory Board

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Tuesday, May 30, 2023

MENLO PARK, Calif., May 30, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- PacBio (NASDAQ: PACB), a leading developer of high-quality, highly accurate sequencing solutions, today announced the appointment of Olga Troyanskaya, Ph.D., Professor of Computer Science and the Lewis Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics at Princeton University to PacBio's Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) and Jay Shendure, Ph.D. as Chair. Dr. Shendure is a Professor of Genome Sciences at the University of Washington.

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  • "I am so honored to have Dr. Troyanskaya join PacBio's Scientific Advisory Board," said Christian Henry, President and Chief Executive Officer of PacBio.
  • Dr. Shendure has been a member of the Scientific Advisory Board since its inception and his contributions are critical to our success."
  • "I'm looking forward to working with PacBio and the other Scientific Advisory Board members and learning from them," said Dr. Troyanskaya.
  • "I want to thank Dr. Puglisi for his dedication to the Scientific Advisory Board," said Mark Van Oene, Chief Operating Officer at PacBio.

New Flatiron Institute Supercomputer the Most Power-Efficient Ever Built

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Monday, November 14, 2022

At 2.038 million billion FLOPS, the new Flatiron Institute supercomputer is the worlds most energy efficient supercomputer as measured by the Green500.org.

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  • At 2.038 million billion FLOPS, the new Flatiron Institute supercomputer is the worlds most energy efficient supercomputer as measured by the Green500.org.
  • Researchers at the Flatiron Institute will tap the new supercomputers power to tackle thorny problems in computational astrophysics, biology, mathematics, neuroscience and quantum physics.
  • The new Flatiron Institute supercomputer supplants Frontier Test & Development System (TDS), located at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, on the power efficiency list.
  • While both are record setters, the new Flatiron Institute supercomputer is a markedly different beast than Frontier, which was laboriously designed and built to reach 1 exaFLOP.

The American Cancer Society and Flatiron Health Announce Recipients of Real-World Data Impact Award

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Monday, October 25, 2021

ATLANTA and NEW YORK, Oct. 25, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The American Cancer Society (ACS) and Flatiron Health announced today that the 2021 Real-World Data Impact Awards will support research into health disparities among patients with advanced pancreatic and breast cancer.

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  • ATLANTA and NEW YORK, Oct. 25, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The American Cancer Society (ACS) and Flatiron Health announced today that the 2021 Real-World Data Impact Awards will support research into health disparities among patients with advanced pancreatic and breast cancer.
  • "Flatiron Health is honored to partner with ACS to leverage Flatiron's EHR-derived real-world data to advance research toward better and more equitable cancer treatments and outcomes," said Rebecca Miksad, MD, MPH, senior medical director at Flatiron Health.
  • Flatiron Health is a healthtech company dedicated to helping cancer centers thrive and deliver better care for patients today and tomorrow.
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    The American Cancer Society is on a mission to free the world from cancer.

Bright Computing Announces Significant Expansion of Bright-run Research Cluster at the Flatiron Institute

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Tuesday, July 14, 2020

The Flatiron Institute is in the process of commissioning a 320-node addition to their research cluster, to come online later this month, bringing their clustered infrastructure to over 1,300 nodes, all managed by Bright Cluster Manager .

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  • The Flatiron Institute is in the process of commissioning a 320-node addition to their research cluster, to come online later this month, bringing their clustered infrastructure to over 1,300 nodes, all managed by Bright Cluster Manager .
  • Bright Cluster Manager maximizes resource utilization and increases workload efficiency, freeing researchers to focus on groundbreaking computational research instead of cluster management activities.
  • Bright Cluster Manager gives the Flatiron Institute a cutting edge, commercially supported cluster management solution that supports a heterogeneous compute environment.
  • Bright Cluster Manager's hardware-agnostic platform provides the Flatiron Institute with a single unified system that reduces complexity and promotes efficiency and ease-of-use," said Martijn de Vries, CTO of Bright Computing.

Lenovo and Intel Power Computational Research at the Flatiron Institute

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Wednesday, October 9, 2019

The Flatiron Institute, located in New York City, is the internal research division of the Simons Foundation, whose mission is to advance the frontiers of research in mathematics and the basic sciences.

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  • The Flatiron Institute, located in New York City, is the internal research division of the Simons Foundation, whose mission is to advance the frontiers of research in mathematics and the basic sciences.
  • Researchers at the Flatiron Institute are pursuing advances in biological sciences, astrophysics, quantum physics and computational mathematics.
  • Lenovo and Intel partnered with the Flatiron Institute to dramatically improve and expand its HPC and AI capabilities so technologies are no longer the limiting factor in its research.
  • Research at the Flatiron Institute is conducted with the help of Lenovo ThinkSystem SD530 Dense Rack servers with Lenovo Neptune Thermal Transfer Module (TTM) technology running leading edge Intel Xeon Platinum 8268 processors, part of the 2nd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable family featuring Intel Deep Learning Boost technology.

Flatiron Institute Launches Center for Computational Mathematics

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Monday, October 1, 2018

NEW YORK, Oct. 1, 2018 /PRNewswire/ --The Simons Foundation is delighted to announce the launch of the Center for Computational Mathematics (CCM), the fourth computational center launched as part of the foundation's new Flatiron Institute .

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  • NEW YORK, Oct. 1, 2018 /PRNewswire/ --The Simons Foundation is delighted to announce the launch of the Center for Computational Mathematics (CCM), the fourth computational center launched as part of the foundation's new Flatiron Institute .
  • "Bringing in mathematicians and computer scientists to the Flatiron Institute will benefit the research of the other centers," says Antoine Georges, director of the Center for Computational Quantum Physics and managing director of the Flatiron Institute.
  • Greengard holds the title of Silver Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at NYU and previously founded and directed the Flatiron Institute's Center for Computational Biology.
  • "The Simons Foundation is delighted to introduce the Center for Computational Mathematics as the fourth Flatiron computational center," says foundation president Marilyn Simons.