National Cancer Institute -NCI- Purchases Starbridge Hypercomputer to Accelerate Genome Data Research.Business Editors/Health/Medical Writers/High-Tech Writers SALT LAKE CITY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 10, 2004 Starbridge Solution Shows Unprecedented Performance for Manipulating Very Large Sets of Genetic Information Starbridge Systems(R) announced today that the National Cancer Institute's Advanced Biomedical bi·o·med·i·cal adj. 1. Of or relating to biomedicine. 2. Of, relating to, or involving biological, medical, and physical sciences. Computing Center (ABCC ABCC Advanced Biomedical Computing Center ABCC Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission ABCC Alcoholic Beverages Control Commission (Massachusetts, USA) ABCC American Board of Clinical Chemistry ABCC Association of British Chambers of Commerce ) in Frederick, Md., recently purchased a Starbridge Hypercomputer(R), the first high-end reconfigurable computer acquired for bioscience research. The Starbridge Hypercomputer will serve as an important scientific computational resource In computational complexity theory, a computational resource is a resource used by some computational models in the solution of computational problems. The simplest computational resources are computation time, the number of steps necessary to solve a problem, and and represents a revolutionary leap in high-performance computing High-speed computing, which typically refers to supercomputers used in scientific research. capabilities. Starbridge consulted with Dr. Jack Collins of the National Cancer Institute to assess NCI's research needs, and produced a massively parallel See MPP. and scalable implementation of the Smith Waterman algorithm, which is used to compare sets of genetic data, on the Starbridge Hypercomputer. Starbridge's implementation of the Smith Waterman algorithm enables NCI See Liberate. to compare genetic data sets of virtually any size in record-breaking time. As part of the final acceptance criteria, Starbridge demonstrated a Smith Waterman comparison of the human X to Y chromosomes. This comparison, which typically requires months of computation time on a cluster, was completed in approximately five days on the Hypercomputer. "NCI's purchase illustrates the potential for Hypercomputing to accelerate research in the Life Sciences," said Daniel Oswald, president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Starbridge Systems. "We expect this to be the first of many grand challenge problems solved by Starbridge Hypercomputers." Starbridge Systems: The Hypercomputer Company Utah-based Starbridge Systems was founded in 1998 to advance reconfigurable computing technologies, creating the powerful, high-performance Hypercomputer platforms. Compared with conventional processors, Starbridge's scalable Hypercomputers offer significant advantages in speed, flexibility, versatility and efficiencies of size, weight and power consumption. Starbridge's Viva development environment turns months into minutes by supporting highly parallel expression of algorithms and optimally configuring the Hypercomputer hardware for peak execution of each algorithm. For a demonstration or for more information, visit www.starbridgesystems.com/smithwaterman or call 801-984-4444. |
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