Massively Parallel Technologies announces enhanced work flow for BioTech Virtual Power Center

Users of Massively's BLAST service will no longer be relegated to the painful and time-consuming process of submitting one sequence at a time to NCBI or be faced with the daunting and costly challenge of configuring and managing their own BLAST server. Massively's Powered by HOWARD, high-performance BLAST service is available on the BioTech Virtual Power Center (VPC).

"We recognize biologists' and researchers' need for a more integrated work flow", stated Massively's CTO, Kevin Howard. "Availability of SMS on the BioTech VPC means that users will have an easier time bringing data in from one part of their analysis, manipulating the information in one location and preparing the data for direct import into other applications."

The Sequence Manipulation Suite was written by Paul Stothard, University of Alberta, and is now available. Massively's BioTech VPC delivers the benefits of high-performance supercomputing without the costs and complexities associated with users owning and managing their own compute clusters. Using a standard web browser with Internet access, users can take advantage of Massively's BioTech VPC without investing in any additional hardware or software. During the introductory period, Massively's Powered by HOWARD high-performance BLAST with job completion estimator, selectable speed-up, Sequence Manipulation Suite, and associated storage space will be provided free of charge.

"Researchers involved in some of the most interesting and relevant projects have described the tremendous productivity loss breaking up and submitting BLAST jobs one sequence at a time to NCBI without any insight as to how long it will take to process their BLAST job", stated Kevin Howard. "As a result, researchers commonly scale back the breadth and frequency of their BLAST searches. Massively is the first to break through these limitations with Powered by HOWARD BLAST. Combined with selectable speed-up - another Massivley BLAST first - our users' jobs are transparently powered by hundreds of servers, delivering extraordinary job control and productivity increases in comparison to conventional BLAST."

Massively Parallel Technologies, a Colorado-based company, delivers high-performance computing through Virtual Power Centers, Internet-based hubs designed for specific computationally intense applications. Powered by HOWARD, Massively's revolutionary system design and software solution provides the fastest possible communication between multiple processors. Massively's Virtual Power Centers can outperform most mainframes and supercomputers for a fraction of the cost. More company news can be found in the VMW August 2005 article Massively Parallel Technologies announces successful early beta testing of bioinformatics solution.