HPC allows healthcare and life sciences professionals to process data in near-real time and generate insights that can transform patient outcomes. Explore how you can take advantage of its possibilities.
By Rich Bird, HPE Worldwide Industry Marketing Manager for Healthcare and Life Sciences and Dr. Michael McManus, Director of Precision Medicine and a Principal Engineer at Intel
Modern healthcare professionals have more data at their fingertips than ever before. By giving you access to much more memory and compute, high-performance computing (HPC) allows healthcare and life sciences (HLS) professionals to process this data in near-real time and generate insights that can transform patient outcomes.
Letโs look at a few examples:
- Hospitals can use edge devices like wearables and bedside devices to capture large volumes of patient data. HPC systems in the hybrid cloud then analyze and process this data in real time, generating insights that can be acted on immediately by medical staff to transform patient outcomes.
- Drug researchers typically begin their process by identifying drug targets such as proteins through genomics. Using HPC and cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) they can build a 3D model of a protein and use it to test small molecule drug candidates. This modelling is a much more efficient way to iterate than traditional methods, which ultimately gets life changing drugs into clinical trials, faster.
- In genomics, high-throughput HPC systems have made it possible for governments and research bodies to run large scale sequencing programs. These national studies follow tens of thousands of people and unlock insights into the effects of the genome on health outcomes. Programs of this size were unimaginable before the emergence of HPC genomics sequencing.
Finding the right HPC solution for you
Traditionally, HPC systems have not been easy to deploy. Many organizations donโt have the resources to make a large up-front investment in the hardware required to run HPC applications, or the skills in house to develop the right software for their specific workloads.
However, joint innovation from HPE and Intel is making HPC more accessible, by removing some of these barriers. HPE GreenLake is an as-a-service offering assembled from pre-configured building blocks that delivers on-demand capacity and planning. It combines the agility and economics of the public cloud with the security and performance of on-premises IT.
Intel and HPE have been working together with the HLS industry for decades to understand the complex demands of HLS workloads. They have used this knowledge to optimize the solutions available through HPE GreenLake to deliver high performance for key use cases in the HLS industry. Whatโs more, Intel and HPE engage with their customers to help them work out which solutions will be the best fit for their workloads and priorities.
HPE GreenLake also offers greater flexibility, with a pay-per-use model that allows you to shift HPC expenditure from CapEx to OpEx. You can provision new resources when you need them to cope with changing workloads or bursts in demand, and you only pay for what you use.
Find out more about the benefits of HPC for HLS and discover how Intel and HPE are building solutions for today and tomorrow. Watch the webinar Demystifying HPC for Healthcare and Life Sciences with experts Dr. Michael McManus and Rich Bird.
Rich Bird has worked in the IT industry for 20 years with some of the largest commercial brands. For the last five years heโs been focused on healthcare IT at HPE, and believes deeply that digital technologies can, will, and need to have an impact on the delivery of better healthcare, for people all over the world. Educated in Computer Science at Coventry University, and starting his career as a network engineer for Rolls Royce, he moved into human communications roles in 2006. Rich leads teams in delivering integrated marketing campaigns into National, local and regional Governments in the UK, where Rich found his passion for making the complex concepts of IT, simple and understandable for his audience. During this time he found his true calling, healthcare, and how digitization can improve real people lives. He created a company-wide growth board focusing on the UK NHS, pulling together disparate teams of sales, marketing, solutions architects, chief technologists and the country leadership teams for HP/HPE UK.
Dr. Michael McManus is the Director of Precision Medicine and a Principal Engineer at Intel. He focuses on the use of modern high-performance computing and artificial intelligence methods in the life sciences sector. Prior to Intel, he worked at six venture-backed start-ups and two public companies.
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