Rapid, parallel processing advances research through high-performance cloud computing, scalable across thousands of cores, increasing throughput and accelerating discovery.

By taking advantage of scalable, massively parallel cloud computing delivered as software as a service (SaaS), VMLpro allows users to take their analyses (kBs) to their data (TBs) and then distributes the results, in real-time, to their network of collaborators without the barriers of institutional firewalls.

EEG recordings, metadata and analysis routines (plug-ins) are uploaded to the cloud. Sensitive patient data are encrypted and stored independently of anonymised data and linked via a unique encrypted key to ensure data security.

Storage capacity and processing nodes are scaled automatically to meet current requirements thus optimising the user’s computing needs in real-time, avoiding redundancies in data duplication and ensuring users have persistent access to data, and the most recent versions of analytics.

The technology

Platform infrastructure

• Latest technologies from Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Decoupled and distributed: no single point of failure
• Load balancing to handle growing users / databases
• Disposable analysis servers (Spark on EC2)
• On demand platform scaling
• Improved cost efficiency
• EDF, HDF5 and NXE data formats supported
• JSON / REST API supports Android, iOS and web clients

Batch and real time analysis

• Supervised and unsupervised machine learning algorithms
• Run R, Python, Scala and Java code in the same cluster

Security

• SSL communication between clients and servers
• Encrypted user repository (at rest and in transit)
• Multi-tenant access privileges
• Fully audited API calls
• AWS firewalls protect database and analysis servers
• Multi-factor authentication

Support

• Centralised error logs via Papertrail
• Help desk for bugs, issues and requests within 24 hours

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If you are interested in using VMLpro in your own research or in the development of other applications, please get in touch.