NovaGlobal had provided consultation and successfully built a Bioscience HPCC (High Performance Computing Cluster) for a local research institute that focuses primarily on understanding cellular mechanisms that underlie the development and physiology of plants, fungi and animals

The system comprises primarily of IBM large memory SMPs, IBM Storage and more than 50 Open Source applications. One of the key applications that have successfully been integrated to the HPC cluster is the CLC Genomics Server. Analyses are done from the CLC Genomics Workbench client installed at the workstation and connected to the CLC Genomics Server on the cluster, utilizing the cluster computing resources for more intensive computation.

The Centre for Information and Communication Technology – Universiti Teknologi Malaysia has provided us the resources to access the Malaysia Research and Education Network through the generic-purpose science gateway portal developed from the SCI-BUS project.

Some details are as follows:

Portal homepage: http://scibus.cict.utm.my
Portal Framework: WS-PGRADE/gUSE version 3.5.5
Programming API: ASM 3.4
Operating System: Scientific Linux 6.2
Grid Middleware: EMI Middleware UI version 2.0
Applications: Autodock4, AMBER, NWChem, GROMACS, FastDNAml, Phase, Clustalw-MPI, BLAST, Muscle, OpenFOAM, Blender, Multidendrograms, PROSPECT, NAMD, Glimmer