Scientific
Applications:
PLATFORM EXHIBITS KEY GRID
SOLUTIONS FOR LIFE SCIENCES
Grid technology leader Platform Computing announced its participation as
conference speaker and exhibitor at Bio-ITWorld 2003 Conference & Expo at the
Hynes Convention Center in Boston, March 25 - 27, 2003. During the three-day
conference, Platform experts will share their experience helping organizations
reduce time-to-discovery and time-to-development for life-saving drugs and
discoveries using Enterprise Grid technology.
Platform participation includes:
- Tuesday, March 25, 10 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. EST -- "Taking Life Sciences from
the Cluster to the Grid." Chris Smith, Life Sciences Integration Architect,
Platform, and Philip Werner, Vice President Product Management, Avaki will
lead a workshop that explores the evolution from clusters to Grid computing in
life sciences, illustrating how high-throughput and high-capability computing
demands and data management considerations can be addressed through Grid
computing.
- Thursday, March 27, 2:15 p.m. - 2:55 p.m. EST -- "Grid-Enabled Life
Sciences Research." Eric Broda, Vice President Services, Platform and Platform
customer, William Hayes, Director, Text Mining, Informatics, AstraZeneca, will
discuss a grid-enabled approach to transform an organization's computing
infrastructure into a virtual computing backbone, optimizing the utilization
of IT applications, resources and services on an enterprise scale.
In addition, as one of IBM's featured business partners and a key partner
in IBM's Grid solution offering for Life Sciences, Platform executives will be
available to answer questions in IBM's hospitality suite Room 302, Hynes
Convention Center on Wednesday, March 26, 5 p.m. - 8 p.m. EST.
With 10 years of experience delivering proven distributed and Grid
computing solutions to over 1,600 customers worldwide, Platform solutions
maximize the processing power and automate the pipeline execution of compute-
intensive environments at Fortune 500 pharmaceutical companies, including:
AstraZeneca, BASF, Boehringer Ingelheim, Celera, Cereon Genomics, Dow
Chemical, DuPont, GlaxoSmithKline, Incyte Genomics, Merck, Pfizer, Pharmacia,
Proctor & Gamble and the Sanger Institute.
Conference agenda: www.bioitworldexpo.com
About Platform
Platform Computing provides distributed and Grid computing solutions that
help enterprises effectively connect, measure, manage and optimize their
enterprise resources. Platform's integrated desktop to Grid software solutions
are used by over 1,500 customers worldwide in the financial services,
government, life sciences and manufacturing industries to deliver higher
quality products and services, improve business performance and maximize the
return on IT investments. Founded in 1992, Platform has strategic
relationships with Apple, Dell, HP, IBM, SAS and SGI, and the industry's
broadest application integration support.
Web site: www.platform.com
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