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. In a paper published in Nature on Wednesday, researchers at MIT and Harvard describe how they used an IBM BlueGene/Q supercomputer that was built for research purposes but now has been repurposed as a “@@ 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.