Grid in Life Sciences

 

Increase collaboration among researchers, streamline and replicate processes, enhance service levels and accelerate processing for faster time-to-market with a grid solution from Platform Computing.

Life Sciences Computing Challenges

Whether working to translate genomic and proteomic information into biomedical, therapeutic and prevention strategies or enhance patient care, life sciences organizations face a number of technical challenges and organizational demands, including:

• Increased data volume and complexity

• Increased regulatory and market pressures

• Budget limitations

The Platform Computing Solution

Free your researchers, scientists and testers from technology constraints while enhancing service levels and reducing costs with Platform's grid computing solutions.

By integrating technology silos and revitalizing your entire computing infrastructure into an agile, responsive one – without incurring significant capital expenditures – your organization won’t have to sacrifice accuracy for speed, or profitability for competitive advantage.

    * Support and nurture the discovery process. Easily manage workloads to ensure that the right resources are automatically allocated to the right users and projects for maximum efficiency and productivity. Platform's grid computing solutions also provide you with the ability to design and document more structured processes so that results are easily duplicated, and the audit trail is more detailed and complete.
    * Establish a single, integrated computing environment. Support new and changing discovery initiatives by extracting valuable knowledge from data efficiently and reliably. Platform’s open, modular architecture ensures that scientists can reliably and transparently share computing resources across remote locations.
    * Eliminate costly and resource-intensive dropouts during in silico simulations and testing. Define reusable pipeline protocols, run exponentially more analyses, accelerate throughput and tackle more complex computations in less time with Platform's grid computing solutions.  Faster time to results means failed candidates are identified sooner.
    * Measure the impact of informatics on overall business objectives. With, Platform's grid computing solutions you can collect, correlate and visualize system and process data in order to reduce overall IT budgets, anticipate future expenditures and measure your cost savings achieved through streamlined and effective utilization of IT.
    * Access and unify globally dispersed applications and hardware.   Platform's grid computing solutions integrate with and optimize all major life sciences applications and systems hardware, including commercial software and public domain applications. From a single cluster of Windows desktop computers to Linux compute farms or worldwide grids of distributed systems, our solutions harness the processing power of globally distributed, heterogeneous IT resources.

Platform in Clinical Environments

Enhance patient care in the face of healthcare cutbacks while realizing significant cost savings. A grid solution from Platform Computing gives healthcare workers immediate access to data regardless of its location. It also provides the power for computer-assisted diagnosis and processing sophisticated algorithms to identify clusters of infection or other patterns.

Platform in Pharmaceutical

Manage increasing volumes of data and get drugs to market faster at a fraction of the cost. A grid solution from Platform Computing makes in silico drug screening possible via the creation of virtual supercomputers.

Platform in Biotechnology

Accelerate research, development and discovery initiatives from years to months.  Platform's grid computing solutions allows researchers to analyze massive amounts of data more quickly and cost effectively, leading to faster time-to-market and lower development costs.