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| Terra Soft Offers Xserve Bioinformatics Cluster Terra Soft Solutions has announced the release of a mobile, pre-configured 8-node Xserve bioinformatics cluster. The Y-Bio Cluster is a natural follow-on offering to Y-Bio, Terra Soft's bioinformatics solution that combines over 100 genomics sequencing applications into a single, managed interface. Y-Bio Cluster enables bioinformaticists to conduct research in the time required to apply power, log-in, and upload data. No configuration or system administration experience is required. Terra Soft ships the cluster with the base user accounts pre-configured and pre-tested by the end-user via remote connection. Moab Cluster Suite eliminates the complexity of cluster management so users with limited experience can benefit from the power of a cluster. Through Moab, Y-Bio Cluster users submit and manage workload via the Web interface. Moab empowers the cluster administrator to schedule, report, and monitor jobs; visually track architecture, OS, status, and CPU utilization; reserve, on-line / off-line connectivity, and cycle power nodes through a single desktop Java application. Both user and admin tools function with OSX, Windows, and Linux desktops with little to no training. The default configuration of the Y-Bio cluster includes: - XRack Pro 2 mobile cluster housing. - Dual 2.0GHz G5 Xserve head node with 4GB RAM, 1TB storage, Combo drive, and graphics card. - 7x Dual 2.0GHz Cluster nodes with 4GB RAM, 80GB SATA drive. - HP Procurve 2724 switch: 24 10/100/1000 ethernet ports. - TORQUE Resource Manager & Moab Cluster Suite by Cluster Resources. - 64-bit gcc and tool chain. - IBM XLF/C compilers. - Y-HPC 64-bit OS and Cluster Construction/Management Suite. - Y-Bio bioinformatics suite. Y-Bio offers industry standards NCBI BLAST, EMBOSS, Glimmer, ClustalW, HMMER, Wise, and FastA - tools for genetic sequence analysis. The Y-Bio web interface enables genomics researchers to benefit from unified data management, input, and execution. Y-Bio improves upon existing Pise-based offerings with support for both Power and x86 Linux desktops and clusters. RPM compliance with Yellow Dog, Red Hat, and SuSE complements simple installation, update, and package removal via yum and Up2Date. Secure web and shell interfaces and a database-driven PHP backend a flexible, unified package. write your comments about the article :: © 2006 Computing News :: home page |