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

• Accelerate and manage complex workloads across a 2,000 node HPC Linux cluster

Solution

• Platform LSF

Results

• Accelerated discovery initiatives for critical drugs and therapies to combat life-threatening illnesses

• Perform five trillion complex calculations and comparisons per second

• Accomplish work previously reserved for multi-million dollar supercomputers and mainframes

"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