The Sanger Institute
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The Sanger Institute
Sanger Accelerates Human Genome Discovery by Two Years
Overview
- The Sanger Institute delivered over one-third of the work for the Human Genome Project
- Platform LSF enabled improved workload management, with the scalability to extend the UK grid.
Challenges
- Improve researcher’s efficiency and time-to-results for the Human Genome Project
- Increase computing power to 400 nodes to run up to half a million sequence matching jobs/day
Solution
Results
- Platform LSF enabled faster, easier and more reliable performance of each sequencing job which was paramount to the success of the Human Genome Project
- Platform’s ability to provide superb scalability enabled The Sanger Institute to implement blade technologies and heighten its involvement in the UK Grid Project.
"The Human Genome Project has used enormous, scalable compute power to market he data available throughout the project. The Project is as much as exercise in IT and systems needs as in lab science and we and our partners will finish the genome years ahead of schedule partly because of our investment in flexible systems.”
Phil Butcher, Head of IT
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