A Leader in Genome Sequencing and Research Taps
Red Hat OpenStack Platform and Red Hat CloudForms to Provide
Highly-Available, Scalable Cloud Computing Solutions
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE:RHT), the world's leading provider of open
source solutions, today announced that the Wellcome Trust Sanger
Institute, a world leader in genome research, has standardized its
cloud computing systems and services on Red Hat OpenStack Platform
and Red Hat CloudForms. This has enabled the Institute to offer and
more effectively manage scientific computing at scale, or
“Science-as-a-Service,” to their own researchers and to biosciences
start-ups co-located at a newly-opened research facility on the
Wellcome Genome Campus.
Based in Cambridge, England, the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
is a global center of excellence for genomic discovery, and
collaborates with start-ups, pharmaceutical enterprises,
governments and other research centers. The very nature of the
Sanger Institute’s work is data-intensive, as the organization
sequences large numbers of DNA samples to look for variances and
needs to be able to turn these results into shareable, accessible
data to further global research projects.
To achieve the computational power required for these tasks, the
Sanger Institute traditionally relied on clustered computing
infrastructure, but this set-up proved inflexible and unsuitable
for collaboration with other organizations. This desire for
collaboration was quickly becoming a necessity, as the Institute
wanted to work more closely with several biotechnology start-ups
based on Sanger’s campus. The Institute wanted to make it easier
for internal and external users to run heterogeneous workloads in a
safer and more secure environment and call on resources with a
single button click. With this “Science-as-a-Service” offering, the
Sanger Institute wanted to simplify collaboration globally and on
the Wellcome Genome Campus, but it needed to enhance its computing
infrastructure to do so.
The Sanger Institute wanted to base its Science-as-a-Service
offering on open standards and open source technologies, including
OpenStack as a private and hybrid cloud infrastructure. The
Institute also wanted a partner to help support this infrastructure
and one that had experience in building large-scale deployments on
a tight timeline, as it wanted this service launch to coincide with
the opening of its new research facility. To help address all of
these needs, the Sanger Institute turned to Red Hat, the world’s
leading provider of open source solutions and one of the largest
contributors to the OpenStack project.
Built on Red Hat OpenStack Platform, the Institute’s service
catalog offers internal users and Wellcome Genome Campus tenants
with options of gold, silver and bronze service levels, each
offering a different mix of services and applications to help meet
unique scientific needs. Additionally, the Sanger Institute uses
Red Hat CloudForms, Red Hat’s award-winning hybrid cloud management
offering, to oversee and control this complex environment and to
help deliver a consistent user experience.
Red Hat Consulting worked in close collaboration with the
scientific computing experts within the Sanger Institute to help
implement its new OpenStack-based solution in time for the opening
of its new facility. With only three months to build and launch the
offering, Red Hat Consulting provided the Institute with additional
skills and experience required to not only meet this deadline, but
to also establish practices around their new infrastructure and
assisting with implementation of the services that went along with
it, like CloudForms integration, usage billing and tenant account
management.
The Institute’s Science-as-a-Service offering is now in place
and fully operational, with five tenants in place at the new
research facility. The Institute’s catalog encompasses three
petabytes of storage, 6,000 processor cores and 100 gigabit
networking, with the ability to add more as new projects and
collaboration opportunities emerge.
Supporting Quotes
Tim Cutts, Ph.D., head of Scientific Computing, Wellcome Trust
Sanger Institute
“Red Hat OpenStack Platform allows users to create and share
virtual machine images of their own creation and to find and spin
up images from elsewhere. This means that we can conduct
complicated analysis on worldwide data, with confidence that we can
meet the needs of data integrity and governance. In addition Red
Hat CloudForms is used to manage this complex hybrid cloud
environment, and deliver a more consistent user experience.”
Tim Yeaton, senior vice president, Infrastructure Business
Group, Red Hat
“Red Hat OpenStack Platform and Red Hat CloudForms enables
organizations to build and manage massively-scalable hybrid cloud
architecture that best suits their unique needs, thanks to the
flexible nature of open source. We’re thrilled that the Wellcome
Trust Sanger Institute has based their new offering on our
solutions, and we look forward to supporting their efforts through
our solutions to forge new paths in human genome research.”
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