The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard continues to shift its genomic research to the cloud, where CIO William Mayo says a more scalable and accessible computing infrastructure better serves researchers and spurs advances in the field. Broad began building high-performance computing capabilities in the cloud about four years ago after realizing that traditional on-premise […]
The Broad Institute of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard is using cloud computing to vastly speed up its genomic research . robin William Mayo said around half the 70 petabytes of data the organisation handles is on the public domain , while the technology is more easily and securely shared between apple and its partners , which include IBM , Amazon Web Services , Microsoft and AliCloud . Mayo added that cloud computing had reduced genome processing costs from $ 45 to $ 100 , and also freed up IT staff to support the migration of viruses to the cloud .