Cedars-Sinai using Sun systems for ground breaking medical research
I'm working in Sun's San Francisco office (you'll remember it as the one with the 70's-era lamp and exit that goes straight into an alley - stunning really). SF is always good for some wacky pics so I'll post a few if I have time. In the meanwhile, I wanted to quickly give a heads up on a Sun release that just went out this morning. Cool stuff.
"Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ: SUNW), the creator of the Solaris™ Operating System (OS), announced today that Cedars-Sinai Medical Center is now using a Sun™ Grid Rack system, comprised of 400 Sun Fire™ x64 servers, Sun StorageTek™ solutions, Sun N1™ software and pre-integrated by Sun Customer Ready Systems, to process and analyze vast amounts of complex data in the pursuit of medical discoveries that could lead to new treatments for life-threatening and chronic diseases. One of the largest academic medical centers in the United States and a leader in clinical research, Cedars-Sinai expects to more than quadruple its previous data processing capacity using the Sun high-performance computing grid, while also decreasing cost and power consumption.
At the new Spielberg Family Center for Applied Proteomics at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, researchers are doing highly complex analyses of the proteins in patient blood samples in order to discover and develop treatments—for cancer, heart disease, epilepsy, high cholesterol and other diseases—that are based on an individual’s biochemical makeup and medical history. To undertake this task, Cedars-Sinai sought a supercomputer capable of massive computational power and data storage to process multiple terabytes of raw data daily and reveal patterns that could be correlated to clinical outcomes."
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08:49AM Dec 07, 2006
by Catherine Helzerman in Sun |
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