Cloud Computing: Big-data crunching hits the fast lane in Holyoke
June 17, 2013
Grazed from The Boston Globe. Author: Naila Moreira.
Long missing from the biotech and high-tech map of the region, Holyoke is finally finding an advantage in its location on the western end of the Massachusetts Turnpike: It’s much faster to reach than some of the most connected places on the Internet.
Beginning this summer, life-sciences companies in the Boston area will be able to send troves of data to a new state-affiliated computing facility in Holyoke in a fraction of the time it would take to ship it to a commercial data center. Located at the new Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center, the life-sciences facility could lead to breakthrough drugs and other products by making it easier, faster, and even cheaper for companies to investigate leads involving large amounts of data…
That should encourage smaller operations “to try things that might fail more,” said Paul Brown, chief architect of the start-up Paradigm4, which developed a key database used in one of the nation’s largest genome projects. “Firms are going to be prepared to do things with much higher potential payoff but lower chance of success.”…
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