Instruments & Facilities
The Bioinformatics Core Research Facility houses a high-performance Linux compute cluster dedicated to Life Sciences research. In total, the compute cluster has approximately 350CPU cores, 1TB of RAM, and 400TB of central SAS RAID 6 zfs disk storage.
Most of our cluster nodes have at least 8GB of RAM available via the Slurm job scheduling system and are capable of running MPI jobs.
We have a dedicated 4 CPU 6-core large memory server (320 GB RAM) suitable for larger transcriptome and genome assembly jobs. Two web servers and database back-end machines are hosting several University database-driven research websites. The Core has a data transfer server with a direct fiber optic connection at 10GB/s to the Holland Computer Center.
We do not provide access for faculty, staff, or students to our computational cluster anymore, except indirectly via our staff or for the sole purpose of classes or workshops taught by BCRF staff, or for the purpose of transferring large data sets.
In addition to our cluster, we make heavy use of the University of Nebraska's Holland Computing Center (http://hcc.unl.edu/), on which we also collaborate to keep life sciences software and databases up to date.