Case Study: Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation accelerates research with Weka

OMRF Accomplishes More Big Science Research Faster with the Weka Limitless Data Platform

The Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation (OMRF), an independent biomedical research institute, faced significant data storage and performance challenges. Their decade-old storage system was a bottleneck, unable to handle the increasing size, complexity, and mixed workloads of modern research data, which limited their ability to run concurrent jobs and slowed down critical analysis workflows.

Weka implemented its Limitless Data Platform on Supermicro servers, providing a high-performance, software-defined storage solution. This deployment delivered a 10x reduction in job runtimes—including one analysis that dropped from 70 days to just 7—enabled seamless tiering to cost-efficient object storage, and allowed OMRF to support multiple concurrent research projects, accelerating the pace of their life-saving discoveries.

Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation

Stuart Glenn

Assistant Director of Infrastructure & Research Computing