Accelerating genomic research with high-performance computing

The vast amount of information encoded in an individual's DNA tells great tales of one's health and disease conditions. When the first human genome was sequenced, the project that began in 1990 took over 10 years and cost around $2.7 billion. According to Andrew Underwood, CTO, HPC & Artificial Intelligence, Dell EMC, Australia and New Zealand, data intensive computing is fast becoming a dominant approach. Especially in R&D, it is a rapidly growing field of research built on data that is generated from scientific instruments, people, machines and IoT devices. Data comes in high velocities and in large volumes – requiring scientists to harness the power of high performance computing to analyze data faster for timely insights in their field of research.