Jacek, You may also consider inviting someone from the U.S. NCI Proteomics initiatives, or some other NCI "Big Data" representative. I could help put you in touch with someone, just let me know. Cheers, Chris On 2/11/10 10:18 AM, "Paul Brown" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: On the customer side .... Someone from Bioinformatics. What we have found is that while their data volumes are extremely big, the scale of their data management operations (the query workloads they run) are really, really big. Someone from the Broad (Boston) would be ideal to explain their situation. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Chris Mattmann, Ph.D. Senior Computer Scientist NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA 91109 USA Office: 171-266B, Mailstop: 171-246 Email: [log in to unmask] WWW: http://sunset.usc.edu/~mattmann/ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Adjunct Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++