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AUC Solutions offers advanced hardware and software products for your analytical application needs in the field of solution characterization. Our products are designed to offer unrivaled performance, analysis speed and resolution. By adopting our analysis platforms you will save time, maximize productivity, and optimally leverage your instrument investments.

• UltraScan in a Box - The perfect solution for research laboratories with stringent data security needs where proprietary research data must be protected in closed IT environments and external supercomputers are not an option. UltraScan in a Box is built on an expandable HPC configuration which is matched to your analysis throughput needs. The base configuration of UltraScan in a Box features a 64-core, 512 GB Linux server which functions like a regular supercomputer. It includes all components of UltraScan required for parallel distributed optimization and analysis: A PBS batch queuing system, a LIMS web server interface, a MySQL database backend as well as a GUI interface for visualization and report preparation. THe base system is configured with a 4 TB RAID-5 storage array for redundant storage of experimental data.
  • UltraScan in a Box - Option 1: The base system can be easily expanded to any desired throughput by adding additional compute blades, providing capacity for parallel execution workflows and global experimental data fitting. Compute nodes are diskless expansion modules providing additional RAM and CPUs. All blades are interconnected via gigabit ethernet.
  • UltraScan in a Box - Option 2: Redundancy solutions are essential when 24/7 operation is required. Redundancy is achieved with a second, identically configured server that provides 64 additional compute nodes to achieve twice the performance of the base system under normal operating conditions. In case of hardware failure, the surviving system is transparantly configured to operate in standalone mode, providing a nominal compute power equivalent to the UltraScan in a Box base system. Each system uses MySQL replication to provide near real-time synchronization of all database transactions across the two systems.
• UltraScan Software - UltraScan represents the most advanced analytical ultracentrifugation Data analysis software available to the researcher. It features a comprehensive environment for the investigation of macromolecular solution properties, and provides advanced algorithms for optimization which are enabled on parallel computing platforms for maximum throughput and unrivaled resolution and analysis speed. UltraScan specializes in the analysis of sedimentation velocity data, employing the most accurate and efficient adaptive finite element solutions for the most demanding applications. UltraScan provides time- and radially-invariant noise subtraction, modeling of reversibly interacting and non-interaction systems, handles co-sedimenting solutes and other non-ideality conditions. UltraScan is available at no cost for non-commercial and academic use, a commercial license is available for for-profit institutions.

• Cloud Hosting - AUC Solutions now offers commercial grade cloud-based hosting for high-performance AUC analysis and data storage of LIMS databases with AUC data. Our supercomputer cloud is based on the latest generation of multi-core Intel Haswell processors for maximum performance in UltraScan. Please contact us for a quote if you need high-speed/high-throughput AUC analysis.

• Optima AUC Integration - The new Optima AUC offered through Beckman Coulter offers direct integration of the AUC instrument with the UltraScan software. This integration eliminates intermediate disk storage of AUC data on client computers in ASCII format. All data are stored in the UltraScan LIMS system, and directly imported into the OpenAUC binary format used in UltraScan. Just as the Linux computer on the Optima AUC stores the data in binary format, so does UltraScan. This also eliminates information loss incurred with ASCII conversion and assures much faster transfer rates than are possible with ASCII storage. Another benefit from avoiding data storage on a client computer is that all data are protected from undesirable third-party manipulation that are possible when the data are simply stored on a disk. LIMS storage is protected from unauthorized access through database roles and authentication.