SGI Researchers Turn Big Data Problems into Advanced Biology and Drug Discoveries

FREMONT, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--SGI (NASDAQ:SGI), the trusted leader in technical computing, today announced that researchers in the compute-intensive field of biotechnology research are continuing to make breakthrough progress with their selection of the SGI® UV™ high performance computing (HPC) system. SGI UV is the leading scalable shared memory architecture in the industry today, and is being deployed to tackle many of the world’s most difficult and complex compute challenges. The Center for Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) and The Genome Analysis Centre (TGAC) in the UK are two examples.