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 scale up its genomic research. CIO William Mayo said 70 the around half petabytes of data the organisation handles is on the public cloud, while the technology is more easily and securely shared between Broad 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 $5, and also freed up IT staff to support the migration of work to the cloud.