Oracle Magazine, September/October 2018
ORACLE MAGAZINE SEPTEMBER OCTOBER 2018 45 of the compute resources that we need direct access to the bare metal without the abstraction of virtual machines Tew says The algorithms used in real time molecular dynamics are really fast so we dont need a GPU We can just run the simulations on a regular server with a bunch of cores And we can run them in real time To ensure that the simulation software was both scalable and portable Interactive Scientific divided it into container based microservices and migrated it to Linux Tew adds Besides ensuring the required performance in the cloud this approach also meant that universities and pharmaceutical companies that wish to use their existing on premises infrastructure to run the simulations can continue to do so We had to make a product infrastructure that would allow deployment both on premises and in the cloud to allow seamless access for these simulations he says Weve containerized every part of our stack To support real time simulations Interactive Scientific aims to refresh the model displayed on users devices at 30 frames per second Tew says That refresh rate ensures that users dont experience lags or jerky movements as they manipulate molecular models To achieve that goal its critical to consistently move data quickly between the cloud and the client device The broad geographic presence of Oracle Cloud has helped to make that possible by running the back end software in a local Oracle Cloud data center the company is currently able to deliver the required 30 frames per second refresh rate when simulating molecules as large as 8000 atoms In addition Interactive Scientific has developed data compression and other techniques for reducing bandwidth requirements making it possible to display models even on a smartphone using a 4G connection Tew says We had to make a product infrastructure that would allow deployment both on premises and in the cloud to allow seamless access for these simulations Weve containerized every part of our stack Phill Tew CTO Interactive Scientific
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