BC Cancer Agency Case Study: Mining for Cancer's Causes
BC Cancer Agency doubles application performance with energy-efficient Intel® Xeon® processor 5670-based supercomputer
Who gets cancer and why? Scientists are using one of the world’s most energy-efficient high-performance computing (HPC) systems—installed at the BC Cancer Agency’s Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre (GSC) in Vancouver, British Columbia—to help answer those questions. GSC uses the Intel® Xeon® processor 5600 family for computational performance and the Intel® Xeon® processor 7520 for high-speed storage. The solution provides eight times the processing power and 10 times the I/O performance of GSC’s previous infrastructure, and researchers using it say their work can help lead to breakthroughs in understanding, preventing, and treating cancer and other genetic diseases.
Challenges
• Analyze rapidly growing data. GSC expanded its genome sequencing capacity and now produces a petabyte of sequencing data annually.
• Fit into an existing data center. GSC needs a flexible HPC system that meets floor space and power constraints and supports the Province of British Columbia’s commitment to sustainability. The system must handle both memory- and processing-intensive workloads.
Solutions
• Intel Xeon processor 5600 family for high-efficiency performance. GSC selected an IBM System x iDataPlex* solution with 420 nodes, each populated with two six-core Intel Xeon processors 5670.
• Intel Xeon processor 7500 family to accelerate I/O. GSC uses the Intel Xeon processor 7520 in its IBM file system servers and storage subsystems, accessing primarily open source databases such as mySQL* and PostgreSQL*.
Impact
• Leadership in energy-efficient performance. GSC’s iDataPlex installation ranks as the world’s 20th most energy-efficient supercomputer1 and the 178th most capable one.2 The 53.6 teraflop system fits into six racks, providing four times more cores than the previous 1U blade infrastructure in half the space. Its positions on the Green500 and Top500 lists enhance GSC’s reputation in both science and sustainability.
• Scientific progress. Using the system’s high-performance architecture, applications run twice as fast and GSC can run four times more applications.
Read the full BC Cancer Agency Case Study.
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BC Cancer Agency Case Study: Mining for Cancer's Causes
BC Cancer Agency doubles application performance with energy-efficient Intel® Xeon® processor 5670-based supercomputer
Who gets cancer and why? Scientists are using one of the world’s most energy-efficient high-performance computing (HPC) systems—installed at the BC Cancer Agency’s Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre (GSC) in Vancouver, British Columbia—to help answer those questions. GSC uses the Intel® Xeon® processor 5600 family for computational performance and the Intel® Xeon® processor 7520 for high-speed storage. The solution provides eight times the processing power and 10 times the I/O performance of GSC’s previous infrastructure, and researchers using it say their work can help lead to breakthroughs in understanding, preventing, and treating cancer and other genetic diseases.
Challenges
• Analyze rapidly growing data. GSC expanded its genome sequencing capacity and now produces a petabyte of sequencing data annually.
• Fit into an existing data center. GSC needs a flexible HPC system that meets floor space and power constraints and supports the Province of British Columbia’s commitment to sustainability. The system must handle both memory- and processing-intensive workloads.
Solutions
• Intel Xeon processor 5600 family for high-efficiency performance. GSC selected an IBM System x iDataPlex* solution with 420 nodes, each populated with two six-core Intel Xeon processors 5670.
• Intel Xeon processor 7500 family to accelerate I/O. GSC uses the Intel Xeon processor 7520 in its IBM file system servers and storage subsystems, accessing primarily open source databases such as mySQL* and PostgreSQL*.
Impact
• Leadership in energy-efficient performance. GSC’s iDataPlex installation ranks as the world’s 20th most energy-efficient supercomputer1 and the 178th most capable one.2 The 53.6 teraflop system fits into six racks, providing four times more cores than the previous 1U blade infrastructure in half the space. Its positions on the Green500 and Top500 lists enhance GSC’s reputation in both science and sustainability.
• Scientific progress. Using the system’s high-performance architecture, applications run twice as fast and GSC can run four times more applications.
Read the full BC Cancer Agency Case Study.
