SGI BioCluster Offers Life Sciences Workflow Solution

By DE Editors

SGI (Sunnyvale, CA) introduces the SGI BioCluster, an accelerated workflow solution for pharmaceutical, life sciences, and higher education researchers.

The SGI BioCluster is an SGI Altix XE cluster system with PBS Pro cluster management tools and the eXludus Grid Optimizer, a new multicore capacity management technology that boosts throughput in clusters and grids running workloads with tens, hundreds, or thousands of concurrent users through its real-time job schedule optimization technology.

Two life-sciences software applications have been benchmarked by eXludus on the SGI BioCluster thus far, using a 64-processor configuration.

The SGI BioCluster system can be purchased with a 1-, 2-, or 3-year license, or as a 90-day trial version. The SGI BioCluster with the 64 Intel Xeon processors is the recommended configuration for high-performance results. The system can also be configured with 16 or 32 processors.

According to the IDC industry analyst report, “HPC Market and Research Overview: 2006 and Beyond,” clusters are the fastest growing segment of the computer market in biosciences.

For details, go to SGI.

Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.