Comments for The ChemConnector Blog by Antony Williams http://www.chemconnector.com/chemunicating Observations and Musings for the Chemistry Community By Antony Williams, Freelance Scientist Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:58:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 Comment on Dedicating Christmas Time to the Cause of Curating Wikipedia by The Connector of Open Science: A Talk With Antony Williams of ChemSpider « Significant Science http://www.chemconnector.com/chemunicating/dedicating-christmas-time-to-the-cause-of-curating-wikipedia.html#comment-790 The Connector of Open Science: A Talk With Antony Williams of ChemSpider « Significant Science Sat, 09 Jan 2010 17:28:27 +0000 http://www.chemconnector.com/chemunicating/dedicating-christmas-time-to-the-cause-of-curating-wikipedia.html#comment-790 [...] best overview about starting the work was written almost two years ago now. What was initiated after a conversation with Martin Walker [...] [...] best overview about starting the work was written almost two years ago now. What was initiated after a conversation with Martin Walker [...]

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Comment on FPGAs, GPUs and now the Cell Processor - A Call for Comments by f1r31c3r http://www.chemconnector.com/chemunicating/fpgas-gpus-and-now-the-cell-processor-a-call-for-comments.html#comment-789 f1r31c3r Thu, 03 Dec 2009 22:14:58 +0000 http://www.chemconnector.com/chemunicating/?p=19#comment-789 mmm gpu, cell and fpga. gpu processors are very fast due to the comercial amount of funding, the race is on to get faster and faster. The cell processor is a very interesting processor but IBM has made it so hard to get a hold of in the market outside of what they want to sell it to. The cell processor is just not available enough for it to be productive, to be honest looking at the price of intel processors there not even viable anymore. At a cost of £1100.00/processor its stupid cost for that performance at that price. FPGA offer such and amazing attractive package in 45nm and 40nm silicon metal gate providing much faster more density and amazing configurations to a developer and scientific persons. Above all reconfigurable and debuged to any spacific solution allowing outside the box development. The keys to the farrari are in the users hands. With FPGA configurations data protocols are as fast as 100gbs and can be configured as and when needed, power modes can be configured as needed, processor cores added how ever many you want within constraint of the transistor limit of course. Powerfull SPU's that the cell processor run on can be designed and programed by the user on an FPGA unlike being stuck with n amount n type. GPU technology will always be fast its the high amount of funding research development teams not to mention the creative engineers who design these processors. They will always design more and more in this field as they get paid high, very high wages. Yes money fuels this area more than others. Scalability is a very important part in this field but flexability is far more important, something intel, ibm and others seem to have forgoten about. I must add that sun micropsystems have paid attention to this area well mind you so one of them understand. mmm gpu, cell and fpga. gpu processors are very fast due to the comercial amount of funding, the race is on to get faster and faster. The cell processor is a very interesting processor but IBM has made it so hard to get a hold of in the market outside of what they want to sell it to.

The cell processor is just not available enough for it to be productive, to be honest looking at the price of intel processors there not even viable anymore. At a cost of £1100.00/processor its stupid cost for that performance at that price.

FPGA offer such and amazing attractive package in 45nm and 40nm silicon metal gate providing much faster more density and amazing configurations to a developer and scientific persons. Above all reconfigurable and debuged to any spacific solution allowing outside the box development. The keys to the farrari are in the users hands.
With FPGA configurations data protocols are as fast as 100gbs and can be configured as and when needed, power modes can be configured as needed, processor cores added how ever many you want within constraint of the transistor limit of course. Powerfull SPU’s that the cell processor run on can be designed and programed by the user on an FPGA unlike being stuck with n amount n type.

GPU technology will always be fast its the high amount of funding research development teams not to mention the creative engineers who design these processors. They will always design more and more in this field as they get paid high, very high wages. Yes money fuels this area more than others.

Scalability is a very important part in this field but flexability is far more important, something intel, ibm and others seem to have forgoten about. I must add that sun micropsystems have paid attention to this area well mind you so one of them understand.

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Comment on Beautifying Data in the Real World: Beautiful Data and O’Reilly by Copy of Beautiful Data Chapter Now Available Online at The ChemConnector Blog by Antony Williams - Observations and Musings for the Chemistry Community By Antony Williams, Freelance Scientist http://www.chemconnector.com/chemunicating/beautifying-data-in-the-real-world-beautiful-data-and-oreilly.html#comment-764 Copy of Beautiful Data Chapter Now Available Online at The ChemConnector Blog by Antony Williams - Observations and Musings for the Chemistry Community By Antony Williams, Freelance Scientist Wed, 29 Jul 2009 03:04:46 +0000 http://www.chemconnector.com/chemunicating/?p=96#comment-764 [...] previously blogged about the book chapter I co-authored for a book about Beautiful Data. The book chapter is now [...] [...] previously blogged about the book chapter I co-authored for a book about Beautiful Data. The book chapter is now [...]

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Comment on Chemical Information Mining Book - A Moment of Pride by A Nice Review of Our Recent Book Chapter on Nomenclature at The ChemConnector Blog by Antony Williams - Observations and Musings for the Chemistry Community By Antony Williams, Freelance Scientist http://www.chemconnector.com/chemunicating/chemical-information-mining-book-a-moment-of-pride.html#comment-754 A Nice Review of Our Recent Book Chapter on Nomenclature at The ChemConnector Blog by Antony Williams - Observations and Musings for the Chemistry Community By Antony Williams, Freelance Scientist Mon, 06 Jul 2009 04:55:45 +0000 http://www.chemconnector.com/chemunicating/?p=62#comment-754 [...] year I co-authored a book chapter in a book regarding Chemical Information Mining. A recent review for the book was recently written by Peter Willett and it was nice to get a good [...] [...] year I co-authored a book chapter in a book regarding Chemical Information Mining. A recent review for the book was recently written by Peter Willett and it was nice to get a good [...]

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Comment on Dedicating Christmas Time to the Cause of Curating Wikipedia by Virscidian » Blog Archive » Chemspider gets a “Chemical Royal seal of approval” – RSC acquires Chemspider http://www.chemconnector.com/chemunicating/dedicating-christmas-time-to-the-cause-of-curating-wikipedia.html#comment-726 Virscidian » Blog Archive » Chemspider gets a “Chemical Royal seal of approval” – RSC acquires Chemspider Thu, 14 May 2009 16:45:40 +0000 http://www.chemconnector.com/chemunicating/dedicating-christmas-time-to-the-cause-of-curating-wikipedia.html#comment-726 [...] for scientists globally. His investment personally has been immense with long hours invested in structural curation in the world of chemistry for Wikipedia and for Chemspider as a whole. Whereas, many structural [...] [...] for scientists globally. His investment personally has been immense with long hours invested in structural curation in the world of chemistry for Wikipedia and for Chemspider as a whole. Whereas, many structural [...]

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Comment on The Curation of Almost 5000 Structures on Wikipedia by ChemSpider Blog » Blog Archive » Providing Some Structured Support with ChemSpider’s Wikipedia Services http://www.chemconnector.com/chemunicating/the-curation-of-almost-5000-structures-on-wikipedia.html#comment-722 ChemSpider Blog » Blog Archive » Providing Some Structured Support with ChemSpider’s Wikipedia Services Mon, 13 Apr 2009 04:54:13 +0000 http://www.chemconnector.com/chemunicating/the-curation-of-almost-5000-structures-on-wikipedia.html#comment-722 [...] is great. I use it regularly. I’ve been working, with a team of experts, on curating and validating the “structure-based data” in the ChemBoxes and DrugBoxes for almost a year and a half. It’s been a long path and on the [...] [...] is great. I use it regularly. I’ve been working, with a team of experts, on curating and validating the “structure-based data” in the ChemBoxes and DrugBoxes for almost a year and a half. It’s been a long path and on the [...]

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Comment on Three Presentations to give at ACS Spring, Salt Lake City by Thornthan http://www.chemconnector.com/chemunicating/three-presentations-to-give-at-acs-spring-salt-lake-city.html#comment-717 Thornthan Wed, 14 Jan 2009 22:19:44 +0000 http://www.chemconnector.com/chemunicating/?p=56#comment-717 Hello, I m also going there to present my thesis reserch. Nice to see you here and hope to meet you at Salt Lake City. Hello, I m also going there to present my thesis reserch.
Nice to see you here and hope to meet you at Salt Lake City.

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Comment on Hamburger PDFs and Making Them Structure Searchable by tony http://www.chemconnector.com/chemunicating/hamburger-pdfs-and-making-them-structure-searchable.html#comment-703 tony Thu, 11 Dec 2008 14:04:23 +0000 http://www.chemconnector.com/chemunicating/?p=28#comment-703 Tim - there are a LOT of documents out there with just dumb images. I have experience with both OSRA and CLiDE. See the ChemSpider BLog for info (http://www.chemspider.com/blog/?s=CLIDE&x=0&y=0). We use OSRA on ChemMantis at present it is "ok" at best. CLiDE is better but we have not integrated it to ChemMantis as it is commercial and OSRA is Open Source. Tim - there are a LOT of documents out there with just dumb images. I have experience with both OSRA and CLiDE. See the ChemSpider BLog for info (http://www.chemspider.com/blog/?s=CLIDE&x=0&y=0). We use OSRA on ChemMantis at present it is “ok” at best. CLiDE is better but we have not integrated it to ChemMantis as it is commercial and OSRA is Open Source.

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Comment on Hamburger PDFs and Making Them Structure Searchable by Tim Aitken http://www.chemconnector.com/chemunicating/hamburger-pdfs-and-making-them-structure-searchable.html#comment-678 Tim Aitken Fri, 14 Nov 2008 10:11:10 +0000 http://www.chemconnector.com/chemunicating/?p=28#comment-678 Of course structure searching pdfs is a nice idea, and the ACD add-on does it but the problem there lies with the fact one can only search documents with the chemical annotation. There are a _lot_ of documents out there which are just 'dumb' images. The interesting approach for this is to use CLiDe (or a similar tool) which should, I believe be able to convert to live chemistry - I know of one UK consultancy company which did something of that sort, extracted the structure and indexed it in a Cartridge system for searching. I'd be interested to know your experiences with that tool? Of course structure searching pdfs is a nice idea, and the ACD add-on does it but the problem there lies with the fact one can only search documents with the chemical annotation. There are a _lot_ of documents out there which are just ‘dumb’ images. The interesting approach for this is to use CLiDe (or a similar tool) which should, I believe be able to convert to live chemistry - I know of one UK consultancy company which did something of that sort, extracted the structure and indexed it in a Cartridge system for searching. I’d be interested to know your experiences with that tool?

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Comment on Retrosynthetic Analysis Presentation at ACS-Philly by Jean-Claude Bradley http://www.chemconnector.com/chemunicating/retrosynthetic-analysis-presentation-at-acs-philly.html#comment-618 Jean-Claude Bradley Mon, 25 Aug 2008 13:58:58 +0000 http://www.chemconnector.com/chemunicating/?p=42#comment-618 Very nice - I wish I could have attended your talk Very nice - I wish I could have attended your talk

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