Customer stories · Biotechnology
Computational biology lab
A TPU-only pipeline that was simply impossible on a Mac
A folding pipeline that returned nothing on Apple Silicon now completes in ~92 minutes for ~$15, on Cloud TPU, in the lab's own project.
The challenge
Their protein-structure / MD pipeline targets TPUs (JAX/XLA). There is no Apple-Silicon path, the work was impossible on the device, full stop.
Workload understanding
One recognized a TPU accelerator family, which exists only in the cloud, and bursted accordingly.
Best hardware for the job
Matched 8× Cloud TPU v5e, the family the workload actually needs.
Completion
One provisioned the TPU slice, ran the pipeline, returned results, and tore it down, credential, data, and bill stayed in the lab's own project.
Outcome
Impossible → completes in ~92 min
Feasibility
~$14.79
Cost per run
Stayed in the lab's own cloud
Data control
“It wasn't slow before. It was impossible. Now it's a 90-minute job.”
Run your workload in your own cloud.
Representative composite story. Placement, hardware matching, and completion are real system behavior; figures are transparent, editable model inputs.