Convey Computer™ Corporation Announces First Customer: University of California, San Diego at SC08 ...( New Convey H...)

New Convey HC-1™ System to Boost Performance of Bioinformatics Application. Part of "Project GreenLight" Energy Efficiency Initiative.

Austin, TX (PRWEB) November 17, 2008 -- Convey Computer Corporation today announced at SC08 that it will ship the world's first hybrid-core computer, the Convey HC-1, to the University of California, San Diego as part of the university's "Project GreenLight" energy efficiency initiative.

UC San Diego estimates substantial performance gains, cost savings and reduced environmental impact with the HC-1. The HC-1 will reduce the time to completion by two orders of magnitude on a widely used UCSD bioinformatics application, InsPecT/MS-Alignment, which supports blind proteomics searches, one of the most time-consuming applications in bioinformatics. Convey's innovative hybrid-core computer system, introduced during SC08, marries the low cost and simple programming model of a commodity system with the performance of a customized hardware architecture.

"We have found that one rack of HC-1 servers will replace eight racks of other servers at our mass spectrometry center and outperform them on our most data-intensive application, InsPecT/MS-Alignment, with correspondingly lowered energy requirements," said Pavel Pevzner, director of the newly-created Center for Computational Mass Spectrometry in UCSD's