[NMusers] Simcyp focused workshops

2011-11-14 Thread Masoud Jamei
Dear All Simcyp is pleased to present a special workshop on* "Parameter Estimation and Pharmacodynamics"*: A systems pharmacology approach to modelling and simulation: Accelerating model building and covariate recognition in drug development by combining top-down and bottom-up modelling of pharmac

[NMusers] Duane Boyle Memorial Trust

2011-11-14 Thread Michael Fossler
On November 5, 2011, GSK lost one of its best scientists, Duane Boyle, following an 18 month battle with cancer. Duane earned a BS in pharmacy from the University of Wisconsin in 1982 and a doctor of pharmacy degree from the University of Texas (Austin) in 1985. After completing a post-doctor

RE: [NMusers] CycleCloud BigScience Challenge giving away ~8-hours on 30000 core cluster for research

2011-11-14 Thread Mark Sale - Next Level Solutions
Leonid,   Very similar to my experience, running large jobs (24+ hours on one core) on a cluster of 9, 6 core machines - typically about 80% efficiency (by exactly the same metric).  I think that is the spectrum, ~90% on single machine, ~80% on cluster, and it looks like maybe 50-60% on cloud.  On

Re: [NMusers] CycleCloud BigScience Challenge giving away ~8-hours on 30000 core cluster for research

2011-11-14 Thread Leonid Gibiansky
We have just published a paper (L Gibiansky, E Gibiansky, R Bauer, in print, should appear in JPP in a week or so) that in particular evaluates parallel computing performance on a single 12-CPU Window 7 workstation. We found out that for the TMDD-QSS model in differential equations, "Use of par

Re: [NMusers] CycleCloud BigScience Challenge giving away ~8-hours on 30000 core cluster for research

2011-11-14 Thread Bill Knebel
David, Some limited benchmarking results are listed at the bottom of this email. It is also important to remember that there are ways that cloud-computing helps beyond parallel NONMEM. Cloud-computing allows on demand, user specific, clusters that can grow and shrink depending on user requireme