Bristol-Myers Squibb

Bristol-Myers Squibb Reduces Time to Discovery

Overview

• One of the world’s leading makers of medicines and related health care products.
• World’s largest enterprise desktop grid

Challenges

• Reduce time to drug discovery
• Harness existing Windows desktops and integrate Linux servers to build a highly efficient, highly available, virtual computing infrastructure

Solution

• Platform LSF for desktop

Results

• Thousands of desktop PCs hooked into the grid
• Created viable new drugs by looking at new algorithms and new approaches
• Computing power increased 5-fold immediately
• Computing power will increase 100-fold over next few years

"It gives us a massive increase in compute power.  It opens the door for our scientists to look at new algorithms and new approaches that they might not have considered before, because there just wasn't enough compute power.  We believe there is a significant competitive advantage to doing [grid computing].“

Richard Vissa, Executive Technology Director, Pharmaceutical Research Group

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