Morgridge Institute Named Laureate of Computerworld Honors Program

April 24, 2013 - PRLog -- New York – April 24, 2013 – Morgridge Institute for Research (http://discovery.wisc.edu/home/morgridge/research/regenerative-biology/regenerative-biology-home.cmsx) was named a Laureate of the Computerworld Honors Program for work by the regenerative biology team of Dr. James Thomson and collaborators on an indexing system of human embryonic stem cells.

Victor Ruotti, a former Thomson lab member who now works for Epicentre, an Illumina company, was the winner of Cycle Computing (http://www.cyclecomputing.com/)’s Big Science Challenge in 2012. He used his prize of $10,000 worth of computation time to utilize Cycle Computing’s utility supercomputing software to create a knowledgebase indexing system for human embryonic stem cells and their derivatives. The collaborative project involved several members of the Thomson regenerative biology laboratory as well as the Morgridge Institute’s core computational technology team and the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Center for High Throughput Computing.

Ruotti’s run included a total of 1,003,404 core-hours against 11,955 pairs of samples processed. The indexing system that can be built as a result of this computation will allow researchers to quickly classify cells based on their expression pattern and identify genes and regions of the genome. This is critical to establishing and maintaining cell states that have potential for clinical applications.

“Using Cycle Computing’s software, we ran 115 years - over a compute century - of computation in just one week,” said Ruotti. “With the results of this run, we’re building an index to help identify cells in a laboratory setting, based upon the genes that have been expressed. Our end goal is to use these results to build a database to speed development of potential therapies using stem cells. It’s an honor to be named a Laureate of the Computerworld Honors Program, and we’re excited that our work with Cycle is continuing to help foster excellent research results.”

“Technology continues to play a pivotal role in transforming how business and society functions. For the past 25 years the Computerworld Honors Program has had the privilege of celebrating innovative IT achievements,” said John Amato, vice president & publisher, Computerworld. “Computerworld is honored to recognize the outstanding accomplishments of the 2013 class of Laureates and to share their work. These projects demonstrate how IT can advance organizations' ability to compete, innovate, communicate and prosper.”

About the Morgridge Institute for Research

Made possible with support from John and TashiaMorgridge, the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation and the state of Wisconsin, the Morgridge Institute for Research works to solve human health challenges by conducting, enabling and translating innovative, interdisciplinary biomedical research in collaboration with the University of Wisconsin–Madison. The private, nonprofit Morgridge Institute for Research is located on the university campus and works collaboratively with the public Wisconsin Institute for Discovery. For more, visit: http://discovery.wisc.edu/morgridge/.

About Cycle Computing

Cycle Computing (http://www.cyclecomputing.com/) is the leader in Utility HPC (http://cyclecomputing.com/cyclecloud/utility-supercomputing) software. As a self-funded, profitable software company, Cycle makes award-winning products that accelerate breakthroughs at any scale. From 50 to 50,000+ cores against up to 100s of TBs of data, the world’s brightest minds rely on Cycle software to tackle their most challenging computational problems in less time, for less cost than ever before possible. Cycle software provides the single pane of glass from which customers and partners easily orchestrate complex workloads and data across a right-sized set of internal and external HPC resources. Cycle helps clients maximize existing infrastructure and speed computations on servers, VMs, and on-demand in the cloud, like the 10,000-core cluster for Genentech, the 30,000+ core cluster for a Top 5 Pharma, and the 50,000-core cluster for Schrödinger covered in Wired, TheRegister, BusinessWeek, Bio-IT World, and Forbes. Since 2005, starting with three initial Fortune 100 clients, Cycle has grown to deploy proven implementations at Fortune 500s, SMBs and government and academic institutions including JP Morgan Chase, Purdue University, Pfizer and Lockheed Martin.

About Computerworld
Computerworld is the leading source of technology news and information for IT influencers, providing peer perspective, IT leadership and business results. Computerworld’s award-winning website (http://www.computerworld.com/), bi-weekly publication, focused conference series, custom solutions and custom research forms the hub of the world’s largest (40+ edition) global IT media network and provides opportunities for IT solutions providers to engage this audience. Computerworld leads the industry with an online audience of over 3.5 million unique, monthly visitors (Omniture, August 2012) and was recognized as the Best Website by ASBPE and TABPI in 2012. Computerworld is published by IDG Enterprise, a subsidiary of International Data Group (IDG), the world’s leading media, events and research company. Company information is available at http://www.idgenterprise.com/.

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