“We have only just scratched the surface of what is possible with our new HPC capabilities. With powerful HPC hardware and bioinformatics software from Lenovo, we are now on track to reach our ambitious goal of sequencing and analyzing the exomes and genomes of approximately 10,000 patients with rare diseases in India, while also supporting a broad range of research programs in parallel.”
At-a-Glance
- Customer: The Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics (CDFD)
- Industry: Academic Research
- Product Family: Servers
- Region: Asia Pacific
- Processor: Intel
- Topic: Big Data and Analytics,High Performance Computing,IT Transformation ,Industry-specific Solutions
CDFD accelerates research into rare diseases with Lenovo ThinkSystem and GOAST solutions
To accelerate genomics research, the CDFD built a brand-new HPC cluster using Lenovo ThinkSystem servers and running the Lenovo GOAST bioinformatics solution—empowering the organization to drive more research projects across a wide range of disciplines.
Customer Problem
How can research organizations help scientists process vast amounts of complex genomics data quickly and efficiently?
Lenovo Solution
By building a new HPC cluster with Lenovo ThinkSystem servers and optimizing genomics workloads with GOAST, the CDFD can process terabytes of data in parallel.
Business Impact
As part of its new HPC initiative, CDFD made the new resources available to students and researchers remotely—broadening access to the tools required to make new breakthroughs.
“As a PhD student and a researcher, I have worked with many different vendors of HPC vendors and technology partners. Lenovo, by far, offers the best support in my experience.”
Dr Ajay Kumar Mahato, Staff Scientist, CDFD
Results
- · Accelerates genomics workloads
- · Makes HPC resources more accessible
- · Helps the CDFD support more research initiatives
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