Benefits

• Affordable Supercomputing. Dedicated power for your department’s needs.
• Large Single-Shared Memory. Room for next-generation sequencing.
• Single Software Image. Easy to use.
  

Our supercomputers make ideal genomics core servers. Next-generation sequencing, fragment assembly and genome mapping demand large shared memory and supercomputing performance -- exactly what our Duets and Trios deliver.

Our Duets and Trios are called 'Departmental Supercomputers' because they are very affordable. What had previously cost over a million dollars -- large shared-memory High Performance Computers -- can now be obtained for an order of magnitude less. Your research department can now afford our Departmental Supercomputers with up to 1.5 TB of shared-memory and 1.8 TeraFLOPS of supercomputing power dedicated to your researchers' needs.

Our 192-core Trio Departmental Supercomputer (1.8 TeraFLOPS peak theoretical) offers 768-GB or 1.5 TB of shared memory; our 128-core Duet Departmental Supercomputer (1.2 TeraFLOPS peak theoretical) offers 512-GB or 1 TB shared-memory configurations -- ideal for bioinformatics and life science applications and data sets.

Our Duet and Trio Departmental Supercomputers are true Symmetric Multi-Processing (SMP) supercomputer with a large shared-memory. They have the RAM your researchers need to run de nova sequencing. Their sequencing analyses can be executed in hours rather than weeks/months/years.

To programmers, our Duet and Trio Departmental Supercomputers look just like a single huge-memory Linux boxes. Programmers can use standard threading packages to get access to all 128/192 cores and up to 1/1.5 TBytes of memory. With our Duets and Trios, programmers need not worry about message passing interface programming, which is what supercomputing clusters and other limited memory systems demand. There's also no need to build complex file-access program components; programmers can just read a big dataset into memory and access it as an array.

Because our Departmental SuperComputers are easier to program, your researchers need not be computer science experts which is what supercomputing clusters demand. Instead, your researchers can focus more of their valuable time on their specialty – BioInformatics and Life Sciences.

BioInformatics and Life Sciences Benchmarks

The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (BLAST) was executed on a Trio™ Departmental Supercomputer against the full nt and nr database. Click here to download a PDF of NCBI BLAST Benchmarks with the Trio™ Departmental Computer

The protein sequence analysis program commonly used for profile Hidden Markov Model database searches, HMMER3, was executed on a Trio™ Departmental Supercomputer. Click here to download a PDF of HMMER3 Benchmarks with the Trio™ Departmental Computer

The molecular dynamics program NAMD was executed on a Trio™ Departmental Supercomputer. Click here to download a PDF of NAMD Benchmarks with the Trio™ Departmental Computer

We encourage everyone to trial our Trio™ Departmental SuperComputer. In High Performance Computing (HPC), it’s always advantageous to try your specific applications and data sets on the supercomputer you’re considering to make sure you’re getting exactly what you need.

We give all potential customers and partners remote login privileges to our systems here at UMass Boston and schedule free time on our machines for them to conduct their own tests. We are confident that our Trios outperform everyone. Many organizations have tested our Trios with a variety of BioInformatics and Life Science applications and data sets; every single tester has found our Trios to have vastly superior price/performance.

Click here to request your own Trio trial.