Exalead Accelerates

February 12, 2009

Exalead is flexing its muscles by powering search for the famous Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute (http://www.sanger.ac.uk). Sanger does genome research involving large scale sequencing and analysis like the Human and Cancer Genome projects. The institute needed a powerful search solution for its monstrous scientific data requirements, and Exalead offered a scalable, flexible program that can handle a lot of abuse: the data quantity at Sanger grows by about 120 million records annually. Now a simple text request will return results from a pool of 500+ million data–a mere puddle compared to the projection of a possible 20 billion files over time.  You can read the case study here. Looks like Exalead has a huge task ahead of it. If it succeeds, it will be indexing possibly one of the biggest public databases in the world. A happy quack to the Exalead team.

Jessica West Bratcher, February 12, 2009

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