arm64 is about to change life sciences ... dramatically

After a long break to recover from vision loss caused by my immune system, Tech Shorts returns.

Appropriately, we’re focusing on how cutting-edge compute can drive breakthroughs in life sciences. Today we dive into how ARM-based architectures like AWS Graviton are transforming bioinformatics—making it faster, cheaper, and more sustainable to tackle diseases.

Our guest is Angel Pizarro and he explores how shared pipelines, open data, and community collaboration can accelerate discoveries that matter to us all.

If you have ideas for technical topics you’d like to see us cover in a future show, let us know by emailing us at ask-hpc@amazon.com.

00:00 - Start 01:28 - Welcome Angel Pizarro 03:23 - Arm has changed the HPC world 05:05 - Graviton’s impct on EC2 07:36 - It’s not hard to port bioconda codes 09:35 - Bioinfirmatics is right n the edge of comp[leting this move 12:35 - WHo are the key platers moving this rock? 16:42 - We’re getting very close to completion 18:06 - But there’s still work to be done 20:48 - How to get involved