Pharmaceutical companies, biotechnology firms, and research institutions are actively involved in developing and exploiting HPC simulations which produce massive datasets that provide better insight into human diseases. This explosion in genomic and proteomic information and emergence of data-intensive molecular diagnostic techniques demand a scalable, high performance storage infrastructure.

The Panasas ActivStor Parallel Storage Cluster provides scalable bandwidth and random I/O to accelerate throughput for the most demanding life sciences HPC applications. Scalable capacity ensures that multiple versions of genomic databases can be maintained and quickly made available to compute cluster nodes for computational chemistry, bioinformatics, and other compute and data-intensive HPC applications. Large datasets, such as micro array or mass spectrometry images, are effectively managed within a single scalable namespace and shared among researchers to streamline collaboration.