The solution deployed at BMS reinforces SGI’s long-term commitment to life sciences, Linux and the open source community and demonstrates SGI’s expertise in developing and deploying customized solutions for its customers. BMS will use a Linux cluster from Incyte to conduct research for genomics projects, including DNA and protein sequence analysis, transcriptional profiling, and proteomics, one of the fastest growing segments of bioinformatics research.
The SGI Origin family server sitting with a cluster of Linux machines behind it is the ideal environment for the type of computational research we conduct, said Nathan Siemers, group leader of bioinformatics at BMS, in a company statement. Some things we do take quite a bit of horsepower. The hybrid combination of Linux and SGI IRIX gives us the flexibility to do what we want, in a manner transparent to our researchers.
The solution developed for the BMS bioinformatics research group integrates Incyte’s Linux cluster with an SGI(TM) Origin(TM) 2000 server. Linking the cluster to the SGI Origin family server allows researchers to run specific applications in the Linux environment, freeing up resources on the SGI Origin 2000 server for applications that require intense threading or larger amounts of shared memory. The Linux solution increases BMS’s ability to run analyses and eliminates the administrative overhead of transferring data and calculations between computing platforms, making users more efficient.
