TurboGenomics runs sequence comparison tool on Entropia distributed Internet computerSan Diego 10 July 2001 Entropia and TurboGenomics will collaboratw to run TurboGenomics' TurboBLAST accelerated sequence comparison tool on the Entropia high-performance distributed computing platform. This will allow TurboBlast to be run on large corporate networks of many thousands of PCs, enabling fast analysis of databases that were too large to effectively analyze before.
The Entropia platform provides a host of features that will make TurboBLAST
particularly attractive in enterprise networking environments, including
scalability well beyond the typical 1000 node UNIX or Linux cluster; airtight
security to seal off the application from other files on each desktop machine;
and a centralized, fault tolerant resource application manager. The
Entropia-compatible version of TurboBLAST is expected to be available by the
third quarter of 2001.
Genomics and proteomics research require searching very large sequencing
databases. The sizes of these databases continue to increase exponentially. As a
result, the computational loads imposed by BLAST and other software tools to
analyze these databases have outstripped the resources available at most
bioinformatics facilities. TurboBLAST solves this problem by partitioning BLAST
computations into manageable tasks and distributing them to a cluster of
computers that executes tasks in parallel, thereby dramatically accelerating the
BLAST application. The Entropia platform takes TurboBlast one step further,
extending this capability to the largest corporate networks, for even greater
computing power.
Entropia's distributed computing technology harnesses the unused processing
cycles of networked desktop PCs and applies them to solving large,
computationally intensive problems in the enterprise network environment. The
average PC sits idle as much as 95% of the time, even while running typical
software applications. Companies can leverage this massive untapped aggregate
resource to run large applications without having to invest in additional
hardware or IT staff. The Entropia platform is scalable from just a few machines
to thousands and even millions of PCs.
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