Starbridge Hypercomputers Complement Linux Clusters

Starbridge Systems, Inc. has demonstrated technology that can unlock secrets of the human genome. Using a 4U rack-mountable Hypercomputer, Starbridge recently compared the full X (147 million markers) and Y (60 million markers) human chromosomes, a process that took five days for the company’s Hypercomputer to complete. Starbridge demonstrated the X/Y comparison as a requirement for purchase by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) in Frederick, Maryland where Dr. Jack Collins and others validated the results. According to Collins, another company performed this comparison on a custom architecture machine, but it required four months of computation time, and necessitated subdividing the data into more than 1000 smaller sequences, which then had to be stitched together again.

National Cancer Institute (NCI) Purchases Starbridge Hypercomputer to Accelerate Genome Data Research

Starbridge’s Hypercomputing Technology Applied to the Smith Waterman Algorithm Searches Very Large Sets of Genetic Data in Record-Breaking Time

Salt Lake City, Utah (May 10, 2004) – Starbridge Systems® announced today that the National Cancer Institute’s Advanced Biomedical Computing Center (ABCC) in Frederick, MD, recently purchased a Starbridge Hypercomputer®, the first high-end reconfigurable computer acquired for bioscience research. The Starbridge Hypercomputer will serve as an important scientific computational resource and represents a revolutionary leap in high performance computing capabilities.