University of Chicago chosen as Sun Microsystems Center of ...( professor in the Department of Human Ge...)

University of Chicago chosen as Sun Microsystems Center of Excellence

professor in the Department of Human Genetics and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. "Suddenly, we can flash the entire genetic blueprint of a complex organism on the screen, which was inconceivable just a decade ago."

Enabling the Campus Grid
To accomplish its task, the University of Chicago will develop a data warehouse that links genomic data to patient genetic and clinical data generated by researchers at U. Chicago and its worldwide consortia and network partners; provide an efficient means of processing that biological and clinical data; and develop tools to mine that data in biologically and medically meaningful ways.

The University will combine Sun hardware in the form of a large computational cluster, the SolarisTM Operating Environment and Sun TM Grid Engine software to aggregate compute power and control, and manage the usage of computational resources over several concurrent projects. The deployment of Sun hardware on the campus includes a large Sun FireTM 6800 enterprise server with 4.6 terabytes of storage housed in Sun StorEdgeTM T3 arrays for the data warehouse, plus tape storage units; a Sun Fire V880 and a Sun Fire 280Rs as data warehouse and data mart development, test and application servers; a Technical Compute Farm (TCF) with 52 processors and other servers for high-performance bioinformatics computing; and several dozen Sun BladeTM 1000 desktops and Sun RayTM appliances.

Sun's COE program promotes open standards and collaboration to help build new technologies that advance academic research. In addition to U. of Chicago, Sun has already established COEs in computational biology with the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Delaware Biotechnology Institute, Beijing Genomics Institute and the University of Calgary.

"Our newly established Center of Excellence represents a major enhancement to the computational resources available for researchers here at the
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Contact: Catherine Gianaro
cgianaro@uchospitals.edu
773-702-6241
University of Chicago Medical Center
17-Apr-2002

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