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# From: Tim Cutts <tjrc@sanger.ac.uk>
# Ping: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 10:43:19 +0000 <59692190-B273-4178-BE88-D84DD4DA1F38@sanger.ac.uk>
# 2015 Audit: Current as of April 27, 2015
# 2015 Email: https://lists.debian.org/debian-www/2015/04/msg00193.html
<define-tag pagetitle>Systems Support Group, The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge, UK</define-tag>
<define-tag webpage>https://www.sanger.ac.uk/</define-tag>
#use wml::debian::users
<p>
The organisation uses Ubuntu and Debian as the first choice distribution on Linux
systems, and they are used in several areas:
</p>
<ul>
<li>
We have about 80 desktop machines, running Debian or Ubuntu, for the use of
laboratory staff for mail, web browsing, DNA sequence analysis and so on.
</li>
<li>
We have around 950 Debian/Ubuntu machines in HPC clusters.
These run a variety of HPC applications, including the IT
for the <a href="https://www.yourgenome.org/sc/">largest
DNA sequencing facility in Europe</a>, the building
of the public <a href="https://www.ensembl.org/index.html">Ensembl</a> database of
genome information, epidemiological genetic research and many others.
Most of the software used for these studies are either standard bioinformatics
and statistical applications, or in-house research applications, many of which
are <a href="https://www.sanger.ac.uk/resources/software/">available for
download</a> mostly under open source licences.
</li>
<li>
Debian and Ubuntu are also used for many internal infrastructure services;
mail, LDAP etc.
Our entire web site runs on Debian or Ubuntu, most of it on virtual machines.
</li>
<li>
Many internal data servers are also larger machines running
Debian for running MySQL servers.
</li>
<li>
As of 27/04/2015: 190 Debian machines, 1557 Ubuntu machines.
</li>
</ul>
<p>
There were a number of factors which led to our adoption of Debian (and later Ubuntu)
</p>
<ul>
<li>
First, the Debian and open source philosophy in
general fits very well with the Wellcome Trust's
<a href="https://www.wellcome.ac.uk/About-us/Policy/Policy-and-position-statements/WTX035043.htm">policies</a>
to open access data to improve human and animal health worldwide.
</li>
<li>
Second, there are two Debian Developers on the Systems
team, so we have lots of in-house experience and expertise.
</li>
</ul>
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