The National Center for Genome Resources is supporting some of the most interesting and challenging scientific projects of all time the genetic mapping and sequencing of plants, humans and many other organisms. These collaborative global projects will form the cornerstone for future genetic advances, and will help lead to the early detection of disease, efficient drug development, and increased world agricultural yields. The 64-bit capability of the Solaris 7 Operating Environment is important to NCGR to support its work with very large data sets. The scalability of the Solaris Operating Environment is significant because systems capacity at NCGR is already over 1.5 TB, and increased research activities and requirements are continually pushing that number up. The high performance of the Solaris Operating Environment is advantageous because NCGR runs many complex applications involving intensive numeric analysis and matrix manipulations.
Performance improvements can reduce costs and speed results.
20's, plus some Sun Ultra 5 and Ultra 2 workstations. Sun Ultra Enterprise 3000 Web server running the Solaris Operating Environment, with 1.5G of RAM and 80G of disk. 4000 Web database server running the Solaris Operating Environment, with 1G of RAM and 378G of disk. Sun Ultra Enterprise 5000 used to support software development running the Solaris Operating Environment, with 4G of RAM and 126G of disk. Sun Enterprise 2 test server, with 512M of RAM and 60G of disk.