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globally. When you are building a data centre facility, you are building a 20-year investment. It is a significant capital investment so it is not just the cost of power today but the cost of power over the long term’ said Balcells. ‘We choose Iceland not only because it


is very strategically located between North America and Europe, but also because the sources of power are 100 per cent renewable. We offer 5, 10 or even 15-year contacts on power. Our customers, before they even move in, know the price of power 15 years from now, and you simply cannot do that with a commodity-based market’ said Balcells. In addition to offering a carefully selected


location, Verne also provides services to disaggregate data, further helping users to reduce the cost of cloud computing. ‘Disaggregation has been happening for a


long time – disaggregation at a geographical level. What we see now is the disaggregation of data’ said Balcells. Tis concept focuses on selecting the most important data or jobs within a given


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WHEN YOU ARE BUILDING A DATA CENTRE FACILITY, YOU ARE BUILDING A 20-YEAR INVESTMENT. IT IS A SIGNIFICANT CAPITAL INVESTMENT SO IT IS NOT JUST THE COST OF POWER TODAY BUT THE COST OF POWER OVER THE LONG TERM


workload and reducing the protection of data that is not as important. ‘A lot of our customers are moving towards what we call the disaggregation of data. Tey are looking at their data, at the amount and type of workloads they have, and they disaggregate it.’ If an organisation is using the same workflows everyday, then there are more


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specific services available. One option, specifically designed for genomics workflow is a company called Bluebee. Created in in 2011 by the Delſt University of Technology (TU Delſt), and Imperial College London Bluebee combines cloud computing and genomics to deliver a genetic analytics service for research and clinical labs. Bluebee securely connects sequencers


to its supercomputing clusters that run in private cloud data centres. Te Bluebee Service Connector takes care of encryption, authentication and data transfer. Once the analysis is complete, results can be viewed online, and data can be retrieved in an automated way for use with any interpretation soſtware. While there are many options available


to help scientists, no other tool can match HPC in its potential to accelerate life science research. It is just a case of choosing the right technology and the right deployment to match the requirements of an organisation with the cost of investment required.l


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