IBM and CLC bio Join Efforts

At the Bio-IT World
conference in Boston, IBM Corporation and CLC bio, LLC announced a combined sequencing data analytics solution.

The combined platform is a scalable end-to-end solution that integrates a
computing cluster build on advanced IBM hardware, CLC Genomics Server software
for large-scale genomics sequencing data analysis, and CLC Genomics Workbench
client software for analyzing, comparing, and visualizing high-throughput
sequencing data.

"It is imperative that we serve our customers
with a platform that is easy to deploy and support, delivering the power to
perform their next generation sequencing workload. Molecular biologists and
clinicians need these tools to realize the promise of personalized medicine,"
says Janis Landry-Lane, director of WW deep computing at IBM. "We are privileged to work with CLC bio to
deliver this powerful turnkey next generation sequencing data analysis
solution."

Director of global partner
relations at CLC bio, Mikael Flensborg, adds: "By combining our world-leading bioinformatics software with IBM’s
excellent hardware and many years of expertise in setting up and supporting
eloborate IT systems, we’re delivering a powerful turnkey analysis platform,
which will enable institutions and scientists to handle the demands of
high-throughput sequencing data analysis."

The cluster compute
nodes are IBM System x 3550 M4 rack servers powered by Intel Xeon E5-2650
processors. The nodes are connected to an IBM Storwize V7000 Unified NAS
system, which consolidates block and file workloads. Storwize V7000 Unified
systems support file storage using the IBM GPFS.
GPFS has file system performance and is utilized in the largest HPC installations. With GPFS, CLC bio software is leveraging a
shared-disk file management solution that provides fast, reliable access to NGS
data for optimizing performance. The analysis platform comes in three
different configurations, ranging from 48 CPU cores and 192GB of memory to
192 CPU cores and 768GB of memory, depending on the analysis requirements of
the individual customer.

To read the
specs and select benchmarks on the IBM and CLC bio turnkey genomics
sequencing analytics solution