Decoding the Genome: Serious Infrastructure

Roland Piquepaille writes "The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute is one of the largest genomics data centers in the world. In "The Hum and the Genome," the Scientist writes about the IT infrastructure needed to handle the avalanche of data that researchers have to analyze. With its 2,000 processors and its 300 terabytes of storage, the data center uses today about 0.75 megawatts (MW) of power at a cost of 140,000 per year (about $170K). But the data center will need more than a petabyte of storage within three years, and its yearly electricity bill will reach 500,000 (more than $600K) for about 1.4 MW, enough to power more than a thousand homes. The original article gets all the facts, but this summary contains all the essential numbers."

Comments

Re:Who owns the results?

[Gurdy]

> "it also raises the spectre of a single large company owning all these combinations."

You might be interested to read our data release policy http://www.sanger.ac.uk/Projects/release-policy.sh tml which describes how the finished data is made publicly available, to all, no charge.

(I work at the Sanger Centre.)

Dave

Re:Fuck Roland

[frakir]

Mod parent up.

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Real whore here is Timothy. I bet he'll post an ad for your site for some change, too.