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HPC

In July 2016 we installed a high performance computing system (HPC). This cluster is specifically designed for pre-processing of next generation sequencing (NGS) data. However, any application that requires massive parallel processing could be implemented as well.

A short introductory documentation can be found here.


Hardware

The HPC consists of

  • 33 servers (nodes) that can perform calculations,
  • file storage system with an effective size  of 110 TB (BeeGFS file system)
  • fast interconnect (Infiniband FDR) that allows for fast file transfer and MPI applications

The following scheme illustrates the structure of the cluster. 

HPC_structure

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Software

Operating system: CentOS 7

xCAT (Extreme Cloud/Cluster Administration Toolkit)

SLURM (job scheduling system)

Access

All member of the BMC can get access. Please contact us for details