SGI Scientific Workflow Solutions With Strategic Software Vendors Demonstrate Accelerated Research Results At Bio-IT World
Scalable SGI Hardware and Life Sciences Software Optimized for SGI RASC Platforms Make BioSciences and Drug Discovery Faster, More Efficient, and Cost Effective
Boston - BioIT World, booth #405 -- An exciting, yet logical new approach that enables scientific organizations to deploy the best computing platform for each application workload is being showcased by SGI this week in Boston at the BioIT World 2007 Conference and Expo. SGI Scientific Workflow Solutions are application- driven to accelerate discovery in genomics, proteomics, bioinformatics, genome sequencing and drug discovery.
"The typical scientific computing environment today must support a hierarchy of different applications and research workflows that together add up to the organization's scientific enterprise workload," said Deepak Thakkar, Ph.D., BioScience Segment Manager, SGI. "Rather than force-fitting all applications and workflows onto a single computing architecture, it is possible to develop an integrated high performance computing solution which provides a uniform end-user experience but is customized to the needs of each particular customer and application. To be successful, a scientific workflow solution must optimally support each application or a specific workflow, while providing users with the look and feel of a single system, and adapt quickly to the unpredictable nature of scientific research. SGI Scientific Workflow solutions, which can consist of SGI servers, storage, clusters, and SGI RASC programs, are all highly configurable, deliver the feel of a single system and are highly optimized for Life Sciences research."
SGI's Scientific Workflow Solutions demonstrations at BioIT World include application software vendors who excel in specific areas of the scientific workflow. Experts from BioTeam, eXludus, Mitrionics, RCH Solutions and Teranode will be in the SGI booth to demonstrate how SGI's complete biosciences solutions deliver cutting-edge performance, accelerate development cycles, and lead to faster time to discovery.
"Selecting a Scientific Workflow Solution is not an either-or-decision, but rather one that maximizes research results. Working closely with strategic ISV partners and successfully marrying their applications with our industry standard hardware solutions, we can accelerate specific areas of the scientific workflow enabling our mutual customers to speed their time to results more efficiently and cost effectively," added Dr. Thakkar. "SGI RASC Blades and the Mitrion Virtual Processor . software which adapts each application to accelerate and maximize performance . is but one example of SGI partnerships that will greatly benefit genomic research and drug discovery."
SGI's Scientific Workflow Solutions operate in the Linux environment and are targeted to pharmaceutical and biotech companies and researchers alike and can be configured as an optimized solution specific to the customer's need, with SGI NUMAflex architecture laying the groundwork to easily scale to meet the needs of tomorrow and beyond.
SOURCE: SGI