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Life Sciences
Information Technology (IT) has become an essential component of almost every Life Sciences discipline -- from bioinformatics, molecular modeling, and bio-simulation to clinical informatics and medical imaging. So is extreme growth. It's a safe guess that your need for more processing and storage power is unending. Don't let that hold you back from reaching your full potential. Sun is here to give you the widest array of choices and innovative solutions to get more power from your existing infrastructure and budget. Our goal is to help you grow at the rate you want with the budget you have.
BioCluster Grid Rolls for ROCKS
The Bio-ClusterGrid is the first of many deployment architectures that realizes the benefit of the BioBox initiative.
Latest Customer Success
Applied Biosystems
Through Sun Grid Compute Utility, Applied Biosystems was able to perform the compute-intensive data research to develop millions of new genomic assays in a matter of days rather than months.
eXludus
RepliCator software from eXludus Technologies eliminates bottlenecks in moving genomics and proteomics data into clusters. Simple implementation with no application modification. BioTeam
BioTeam is a consulting collective dedicated to delivering vendor-agnostic informatics solutions to the life science industry. Spotfire
The world's largest pharmaceutical companies and most successful biotechs use DecisionSite across a broad spectrum of R & D processes, to help their scientists make decisions that reduce time to market, reduce risk and improve the safety and efficacy of new drugs.
Spotlight
SimBioSys eHiTS on the Sun Grid Compute Utility
The innovative Electronic
High Throughput Screening (eHiTS[tm]) software from SimBioSys running on the powerful Sun Grid
Compute Utility gives organizations a new way to accomplish fast, accurate docking of ligands to
target receptors by using a secure, affordable, and scalable on demand compute utility resource. (PDF) MathSpec Rational Numbers on the Sun Grid Compute Utility
For a mere U.S. $1/CPU-hour, mass spectrometrists can analyze their mass spectral data on the Sun Grid Compute Utility. The Sun Grid can now do much of the tedious work, freeing mass spectrometrists to spend more time on higher level tasks. (PDF) Africa's research capacity takes a giant leap forward
Africa's capacity to research biological issues that impact the well-being and economic development of the continent has taken a giant leap forward, following the donation of the most recent server technology by US-based Sun Microsystems and one of its South African resellers, African Legend Indigo (AL Indigo), to the University of Pretoria's Bioinformatics & Computational Biology Unit.
News
World's First Utility Grid Comes Alive on the Internet - The Network is the Computer
Sun announced Internet access of its Sun Grid Compute Utility in the United States. Through a simple to use portal, users--including developers, scientists, and researchers--will now have easy, secure, affordable and flexible access to Sun Grid, the world's first compute utility available at the low price of $1/CPU-hr in the U.S.
Events
Sun Discovery Cluster NetTalk
Sun Microsystems has designed a low-cost, turnkey solution that specifically addresses the needs of Life Sciences researchers: The Sun Discovery Cluster for Life Science.
