Case Study: GridMarkets achieves 70% cost savings and accelerates drug discovery with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

GridMarkets helps speed drug discovery with high-performance Oracle Cloud

GridMarkets is a cloud-based rendering and simulation platform for computational chemists, animators, and visual effects artists that delivers immediate access to virtual machines rather than queuing jobs. The company faced unpredictable, highly variable demand for high‑performance compute: on AWS and Google Cloud it had to estimate and reserve capacity, pay premiums for reserved instances, and often incur costs for unused or overage capacity.

By moving its workloads to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (Oracle Cloud Compute), GridMarkets now runs on higher‑performance VMs with better price‑performance and automatic provisioning, encryption, and shutdown of resources. The result: about 70% lower costs versus AWS/GCP, dramatically faster render and simulation times (for example, a university’s render times dropped from six days to hours), and reliable remote access for researchers and artists working offsite.

GridMarkets

Mark Ross

Co-founder and CEO