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First-time users (FAQ) start here Registration form for new user Service Model Hardware of the clusters Current system and applications installed Policy and allocation of resources Instructions for job submission Consulting with our joint IT-Scientist team for other services News: HP Clusters in Partners Research Computing: a comprehensive .ppt presentation Announcement: need computing power for your research? ERIS, a department of Partners Research Computing, manages and actively develops the High Performance Computing (pHPC) environment and provides this service to all PHS faculty, staff, students, and affiliates. With hundreds of registered users, clustered CPU's and TB's of data processing space, pHPC has assisted and collaborated with many labs and departments in their computational and informatics needs from image processing to genetics and genomics. The pHPC service has recently added many new features and software to benefit existing and new users of the system. Those who actively use the system are aware of most changes via the HPC listserv. Having finished over 4 Million jobs in the last 2 years, pHPC is one of the largest computing facilities in the Boston area and has been instrumental in dozens of papers and grant applications. * The need for HPC within the organization for research and operational purposes has expanded at a breathtaking rate. Power, speed, capacity as well as storage and I/O are in high demand. To meet these needs, The pHPC clusters now include over 600 processing cores totaling 5 Tflops of computing power, 1.3TB memory and 32 TB of extremely high performance storage. As one of the largest computing facilities in the Boston area, the clusters have finished nearly 4Milliion jobs in the last 2 years . * Many Commercial and open-source applications are actively maintained for a wide range of analytical needs. These include high performance compilers, popular bioinformatics and statistics software and environments, and public databases that are continually kept up to date. Additional applications are installed and supported upon requested . For a comprehensive list of existing software, applications and services please visit : http://www.partners.org/rescomputing/hpc_cluster/system.htm . * MATLAB in particular has seen a greater demand in the HPC environment. In response, MATLAB has been expanded across more nodes along with new toolboxes and a greater number of licenses. * In response to diverse processing needs, the HPC environment now includes large dedicated servers for databases (HPCDB) , web needs (HPCWEB) and windows helper applications (HPCWIN). These are integrated into the cluster environment. The database server currently runs instances of MySQL and PostresQL (Oracle coming in 08) that are actively supported by our new in-house DBA and scientific staff. * The Enterprise Research Infrastructure Systems (ERIS) group, who maintain and support the facilities, have experts in HPC on staff who actively work with the HPC user community to implement or port HPC analysis pipelines into the environment. They additionally work with vendors to evaluate and develop scientific computing solutions that suit community needs. * Many additional job slots have been added in the last year, many of which have been added through the "adopt-a-node" program. Although the shared resources are busy at times, the fair share algorithms employed ensure equity in job scheduling into idle slots that are available to any account. Labs or departments who enter the adopt-a-node program through the purchase of dedicated new nodes, available in many configurations, always maintain unfettered access to these nodes. Please visit ERIS Service and contact ERIS directly for a detailed discussion . * The Partners HPC team has many new initiatives planned and in progress for 2008 . These new services and features are developed based on your needs and requirements. Your feedback is invaluable in developing this valuable resource. We maintain an HPC discussion board, subscribe at hpc@researchlist.partners.org , and continually discuss needs and requirements with our users. |
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