Wipro in pact with Sun

Wipro Infotech will distribute ready-to-run bioinformatics applications that run on Sun workstations and servers, a company release said in Bangalore on Tuesday.

The package includes the BioWorkstation and BioCluster, which will give life sciences' organisations greater computing power, the release said.

BioCluster is readily available with a browser-based access through the Sun Java portal server. Better user interface is provided via integration with the Sun Grid Engine resource management and scheduling software.

This has been tested and tried at the Asia Pacific Science and Technology Center, the release said.

Ashok Tripathy, a general manager heading enterprise platforms at Wipro infotech, said, users can focus on using these applications rather than spending time setting them up, so have more time for research.

Tripathy also claims a higher return on IT infrastructure for the same reason. Opportunities for collaboration as a result of an expanded user base for bio-computing applications will also come up, he said.

The package includes popular open source applications to do Homology & Similarity Search, Sequence Analysis, Structural Prediction, Molecular Modelling and Development, the release said.