The State University of New York (SUNY)
SUNY Swaps Supercomputers for Grid to Drive Bioinformatics Research
Overview
- Build the country's largest Linux cluster at a U.S. educational institution
Challenges
- Accelerate cancer research including human genome research, bioinformatics, protein structure prediction and large-scale computer simulations
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- Accelerate and manage complex workloads across a 2,000 node HPC Linux cluster
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Solution
Platform LSF
Results
- Accelerated discovery initiatives for critical drugs and therapies to combat life-threatening illnesses
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- Perform five trillion complex calculations and comparisons per second
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- Accomplish work previously reserved for multi-million dollar supercomputers and mainframes
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"By automating and managing the complex computational workloads across our HPC cluster, SUNY researchers can exploit and analyze diverse types and sources of biological data in a shorter period of time, and at a fraction of the cost that would otherwise be possible."
Dr. Jeffrey Skolnick, Director, The Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics
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