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Posted April 1, 2009 by Jasmine Antonick

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Yesterdaywe introduced you to Pfizers Web 2.0 powerhouse, Stephen Jordan whos the force behindPfizers open approach to idea sharing and management as well as their SaaS strategy.

Today, meet David Powers, 13-year veteran at Eli Lilly who is using cloud computing services to supportscientists with on-demand processing power and storage:

Eli Lilly On Whats Next In Cloud Computing* originally posted on InformationWeeks Plug Into The Cloud (by John Foley)

Eli Lilly uses Amazon Web Services and other cloud services to provide high-performance computing, asneeded, to hundreds of its scientists. With AWS, Powers said, a new server can be up and running in threeminutes (it used to take Eli Lilly seven and a half weeks to deploy a server internally) and a 64-nodeLinux cluster can be online in five minutes (compared with three months internally). The deployment timis really what impressed us, Powers said. Its just shy of instantaneous.

Looking ahead, Powers foresees the possibility of using cloud services from a half dozen differentvendors,and he wants to head off a scenario where Eli Lilly has to configure and manage each of thoseseparately. He describes the need for an orchestration layer that sits between Eli Lilly and the variouscloud services to which it subscribes. That layer, provided by an intermediary company and not Eli Lillyitself, would comprise algorithms that determine the best cloud service for a particular job based on lowestcost, highest performance, or other requirement. Such an approach would make it possible for Eli Lilly andother users to write to a single API rather than many, while optimizing service usage.

He also talks about the potential to use cloud computing for external collaboration. Eli Lilly already is doi
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some of this, but Powers envisions going further, to the point where the cloud becomes a point ofintegration between Eli Lilly and outside researchers. We have work going on right now that starts to fitinto this collaborative scheme, he said.

* To hear more about what Eli Lilly is doing with cloud computing, register to attend Under the Radar:Clarity in the Cloud on April 24 in Mountain View, CA.

How to be a SysAdmin Rock Star | Cloud Chomp

April 1st, 2009

[...] David Powers. He used to run High Performance Computing clusters at Lilly, and found that with thecloud: a new server can be up and running in three minutes (it used to take Eli Lilly seven and a halfweeks to deploy a server internally) and a 64-node Linux cluster can be online in five minutes (comparedwith three months internally). He now works at Cycle Computing, accelerating protein sequencing researfor all. [...]

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