
DeepSci.com can be used to host most any computationally intensive application that can be run across a network of personal computers. This includes applications that run on Windows, Linux, CUDA, or Macintosh. If volunteer resources are used, the result is tera-scale computing power at a micro-scale price. If private or semi-private resources are used the price is higher, but still avoids up-front costs of procurement, equipment setup, and ongoing costs of floor space, power, cooling, maintenance etc. This architecture is referred to as High-Throughput Computing (HTC) and is very similar to High-Performance Computing (HPC). Typically HPC is used when a high level of interaction between and across the compute resources is necessary as the calculations progress. In general, HTC has a higher latency between nodes, and is more appropriate for when a low level of node interaction is required. HTC can be used to tackle many of the workloads commonly run on supercomputers such as computational biology and structural biology, computational neuroscience and protein folding, computational physics and chemistry, pharmacogenomics, pharmacokinetics, nutrigenomics. It is also used in genomics research such as physiological genomics, nutrigenetics, computational gene prediction, and genome analysis. So DeepSci allows you to run workloads across a network of volunteer machines rather then on an in-house cluster or grid of machines. Or, often it is useful to adopt a hybrid approach where the bulk of the calculations are done on the volunteer machines and then assimilated and completed with proprietary elements on an internal cluster. Using DeepSci can save months of setup and debugging of web servers, databases, and networks and provide vast computing resources when they are required. No more waiting in line to get supercomputer processing power! Volunteer, private and semi-private computing resources are at-the-ready with none of the fixed costs of owning a cluster of machines. Pay only for what you use. For more information, contact DeepSci.com to get started with a free consultation. |