HPC in the Cloud, an industry leading online publication dedicated to covering high-end cloud computing in science, industry and the datacenter, has described St. Louis as “a regional hub for the public and private sector advancement of high performance and cloud computing capabilities for genomics and other data-intensive industries” as it recognized the growth and momentum built up in 2011 by St. Louis-based Appistry. A sell-out crowd at the STLhpc.net High Performance Data Analytics event in St. Louis heard from Appistry about the high performance computing (HPC) technologies that they employ to help tackle data-intensive problems in big-data industries, such as intelligence, defense, life sciences, financial services, and transportation.
As mentioned in the article, St. Louis is also home to a number of organizations advancing genetics research, such as The Genome Institute at Washington University, the University of Missouri–St. Louis, Monsanto and the Danforth Center. Much of this advancement is thanks to computationally-intense, data-driven research projects. With this research happening in more and more organizations around St. Louis, it is a great environment as the HPC community in St. Louis continues to grow and connect. These connections within the community are driving businesses and technologists in St. Louis to learn from and teach each other about HPC technologies to help advance the region as a whole. This advancement comes not only in the area of high performance computing but also in the research areas that it enables. To see examples of this, just look around STLhpc.net or take a look a these selected advancements:
