Portal to Supercomputing Resources Transforms Study of Evolutionary Relationships.

A novel supercomputing resource created by researchers at SDSC allowed scientists to study evolutionary relationships among large populations of living things in significantly shorter times – and without having to understand how to operate large, complex computer systems. The new resource, called the CIPRES (Cyber Infrastructure for Phylogenetic RESearch) Gateway, is an Internet portal that allows scientists anywhere in the world to upload their data via a standard Web browser and perform phylogenetic analyses. The most time-consuming analyses use supercomputers that are part of the National Science Foundation’s TeraGrid and now XSEDE, the world’s most powerful collection of high-performance computing resources dedicated to academic research.