IU joins forces with Cancer Computer
Indiana University’s Pervasive Technology Institute (PTI) and the Canadian nonprofit Cancer Computer are teaming up to increase cancer research capacity—and ultimately hasten a cure for the deadly disease.
The two parties recently signed a three-year co-location agreement to allow Cancer Computer to place hardware in the IU Data Center in Bloomington. In exchange, IU will provide facility infrastructure (space, power, cooling, network, etc.) while Cancer Computer will supply the hardware and remote administration of the hardware. Hardware installation is slated for December 2019.
Seventy-five percent of Cancer Computer’s hardware will be prioritized for IU-based cancer researchers, while the rest will be earmarked for national and international cancer researchers. One IU project that will continue to benefit is the IU School of Medicine Structural Protein-Ligand Interactome (SPLInter), which has been using Cancer Computer resources for several years.
