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January 12, 2011

Researchers at Virginia Tech's Department of Biological Sciences use Sabalcore's HPC Cloud Services for Systems Biology Research

Orlando, Florida January 12th, 2011 -- Researchers at Virginia Tech are using the R/parallel programming language, available on Sabalcore's highperformance Linux clusters, to develop statistical applications to analyze systems biology problems. Systems biology is important as a new approach to aid in discoveries in bio-medicine and pharmaceuticals by focusing on complex interactions in biological systems.

R/parallel is an implementation of the “R” Project. “R” is a free software environment for statistical computing and graphics. “R” provides a variety of statistical techniques including linear and nonlinear modeling, time-series analysis, classification, and clustering.

“Sabalcore's HPC on-demand services have been of great help in allowing us to run R/parallel for our simulation needs in a remote, cloud-based, environment. We need to use high-performing parallel computing to help solve our systems biology problem.” said Rajat Singhania, a final year student researcher under the direction of Dr. John Tyson, a University Distinguished Professor of Computational Cell Biology at the Department of Biological Sciences at Virginia Tech.

Singhania is using Sabalcore services to run hundreds of iterations of an evolutionary algorithm in parallel, there by speeding up the process. “Sabalcore services are very reliable, speedy, and definitely user-friendly. The crucial aspect of the whole service is that we are guaranteed to get all the 8 cores we need at any time, unlike academic and public servers where one has to jostle with other users for processing power. Add to that a reasonable cost, and you have a service which is hard to beat.” commented Singhania.

“We are very pleased to have Virginia Tech on board” commented John Van Workum, president and CEO of Sabalcore Computing Inc. “University researchers can quickly leverage our HPC cloud environment which is often more accessible than campus environments.”.

About Sabalcore Computing Inc.

Sabalcore Computing Inc., founded in 2000, is an Orlando-based company that provides on-demand high performance computing (HPC) services via the Internet for government, commercial industry and academic institutions. The company’s “HPC cloud” business model allows pay-as-you-go access to high performance computing systems which can be used to meet peak requirements or as a complete computing solution. Sabalcore Computing can be a strategic partner for companies who need powerful HPC systems but want to avoid costs of purchasing and maintaining such systems.

Source: Sabalcore Computing, Inc.

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