• Leading provider of agriculture products and plant biotechnology
• Enterprise grid across Cambridge, MA and St. Louis, MI

Challenges

• Accelerate genomic discovery in gene sequencing to maintain competitive advantage

Solution

• Platform LSF
• Platform LSF MultiCluster
• Platform LSF Analytics

Results

• Draft gene sequencing 6 years ahead of schedule
• Full audit and recommendations on compute resource utilization
• Access compute power at 10% of the cost for a more traditional architecture
• 90% cost savings on hardware - saving millions of dollars
• Process 20-50% more genetic data daily

“We saved millions of dollars on IT hardware costs as grid computing solutions from Platform enabled us to automatically load balance across processors and physical data centers.”