A decade ago it was theorized that if enough parallel processing power was thrown at an I/O problem, the bottleneck would shift towards the NIC’s link speed [1]. However, today NUMA architecture changes this paradigm, it also matters on which cores these threads are located and how they are managed [2]. Transport protocols are also critical in high latency networks, TCP’s congestion control alg...

In an increasingly mobile world, many citizens and professionals are frequent travellers. Access during unplanned care to their patient summary, their most essential health information in a form physicians in another country can understand can impact not only their safety, but also the quality and effectiveness of care. International health information technology (HIT) standards such as HL7 CDA...

BACKGROUND Burkholderia cenocepacia can cause life threatening respiratory tract infections in patients with cystic fibrosis (CF) and has a significant impact on survival. There is extensive evidence for patient to patient spread and nosocomial transmission of this organism, and several widespread B cenocepacia strains have been described including the transatlantic ET12 clone. A study was perf...