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JUNE 29, 2010 CLOUD COMPUTING WORLD FORUM CycleCloud for Life Sciences Named Best Cloud Management Solution Cycle Computing, providing proven, secure and elastic high performance computing (HPC) and open source solutions internally and in the cloud, today announced that the company’s CycleCloud for Life Sciences solution has been named the “Best Cloud Management Solution” by the Cloud Computing World Series Awards 2010. Winners were evaluated on multiple criteria, including business case, key distinguishing features, unique and innovative qualities and impact on target markets.
“The award for Best Cloud Management Solution was a fiercely competed category, so congratulations to Cycle Computing for winning the award in its first year” said Mark Johnstone, show director for the Cloud Computing World Series. “The quantity and quality of entries in each of the categories was extremely high and we hope the awards will now go from strength to strength providing people with a benchmark to measure qualities against.”
The CycleCloud for Life Sciences product family provides specialized clusters for scientists, and is currently the only supported cluster application in Amazon EC2. By using CycleCloud for Life Sciences, domain scientists have access to clusters that include a full range of pre-installed domain appropriate tools for bioinformatics, proteomics and computational chemistry. With the growing quantity of research data and corresponding need for compute resources, CycleCloud removes the upfront costs of purchasing and maintaining a cluster, giving scientists the resources they need to get their research done and only pay for what they use.
Cycle Cloud for Life Sciences allows scientists to focus on their research rather than the compute infrastructure required. As a result, researchers can concentrate on critical activities, such as running molecular modeling applications to identify a cure for cancer or performing next generation sequencing and bioinformatics calculations to isolate the gene for Alzheimer’s. By leveraging CycleCloud for on-demand availability of large, secure and trouble-free cloud computational resources, researchers can fill the gap between compute intensive calculations and the power needed to run them.
“Cycle’s selection as the Best Cloud Management Solution is testament to our proven solution and commitment to making cloud computing accessible to the masses,” said Jason Stowe, CEO of Cycle Computing. “Our focus on providing scalable, secure high-performance computing power via clusters continues to drive our steady company growth as we help our clients meet their intense compute requirements with minimal investment and effort, freeing them to focus on their vital jobs.”
About Cycle Computing:
Cycle Computing delivers proven, secure and flexible high performance computing (HPC) and data solutions. With its unparalleled expertise in compute-intensive environments, Cycle helps clients maximize existing infrastructure and increase compute power by provisioning large-scale, secure HPC clusters on desktops, servers, and demand in the cloud. Unlike other vendors, Cycle leverages open source technologies to deliver more innovative and flexible grid functionality and to quickly execute complex calculations without the need for IT staff, data center space or upfront equipment costs. Cycle clients experience faster time-to-market, decreased operating costs and unprecedented service and support. The company has deployed proven implementations at Fortune 500s, SMBs and government and academic institutions across a variety of industries for companies such as JP Morgan Chase, Pfizer and Lockheed Martin. |
