Trillion Virion Delay

The Trillion-Node Network

It is widely accepted that in the foreseeable future the worldwide network of computing devices will grow to billions, or even tens of billions of nodes. However, if we broaden our consideration to include networks of information devices (all artificial systems that deal in any way with information), then we are likely to be faced with much larger numbers. A network of one trillion devices is n...

Health Affairs A Trillion - Dollar Geography Lesson

Dartmouth researchers have demonstrated that there is tremendous geographic variation in the efficiency of health care delivery systems, fostered by perverse incentives that penalize integration, reward fragmentation, and encourage the use of technologies in the “gray areas” of medicine. This research suggests that it is possible to deliver higher-quality care at lower cost. We argue that integ...

Information technology: the trillion-dollar opportunity

Processing a Trillion Cells per Mouse Click

Column-oriented database systems have been a real game changer for the industry in recent years. Highly tuned and performant systems have evolved that provide users with the possibility of answering ad hoc queries over large datasets in an interactive manner. In this paper we present the column-oriented datastore developed as one of the central components of PowerDrill. It combines the advantag...

Virion Protein

We investigated the protein and DNA sequence requirements for the expression of an immediate-early frog virus 3 (FV3) gene, infected-cell RNA (ICR) 169. We used a plasmid containing the 78 nucleotides 5' to the transcription start site of ICR-169 placed upstream from the coding sequence for the bacterial enzyme chloramphenicol acetyltransferase (CAT). This construction, when introduced by CaPO4...