European Bioinformatics Institute           

EBI Accelerates Genomic and Biomolecular Research

Overview

• EBI is a non-profit organization that manages and disseminates crucial genomic information to an ever-increasing and internationally diverse research community

Challenges

• To give international researchers fast and easy access to its genomic databases, the EBI needed to implement a cost-effective, transparent and scalable solution that utilized existing heterogeneous IT resources.

Solution

• Platform LSF
• Platform LSF MultiCluster

Results

• Optimize the power of its existing hardware, boosting enterprise productivity and achieving faster results
• Enables a geographically dispersed team to access its genomic and bimolecular databases, accelerating genomic and bimolecular discovery through improved collaboration

“Grid computing answered our requirement for a scalable computing infrastructure to support research and development activities within a demanding and heterogeneous computing environment.  With Platform’s solutions, we can harness all of our compute resources to fulfill intensive research demands.  In addition, the data in our flat files is doubling every year, so it is important that we have a scalable and robust solution.  To date, Platform's solutions have boosted enterprise productivity and enable us to achieve faster results.”

Petteri Jokinen, Head of Systems and Networking

Related News

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European Bioinformatics Institute Selects Platform to Build Grid

Press Release

January 22, 2002
EUROPEAN BIOINFORMATICS INSTITUTE ENTERS THE GRID WITH PLATFORM COMPUTING