HII-HPC Cluster

Purpose

The purpose of the HII-HPC Cluster is to provide High Performance Computing resources to faculty and partners conducting bioinformatics research.

Is HII-HPC right for me?

High Performance Computing has a:

• Negative trade-off adding more complexity.
• Positive trade-off providing the possibility of solving problems that would otherwise never be achieved in reasonable time.

The HII-HPC may be right for you if you fit any of these criteria:

I need to solve problems…

• Too large for a workstation. Some problems can only be solved by many processes working in parallel or by a system with very high-memory capacity. A large set of compute nodes working together can often solve a problem in hours or days that would take months or years on a workstation.
• Possible on a workstation. But when many combinations of inputs and parameters are required only a parallel approach can provide a solution in reasonable time.
• Requiring large, fast storage. While one can buy large inexpensive disks off the shelf, these are not particularly fast, and they may not be reliable enough under long running and intense I/O.
• Local to the data. Bioinformatics data can range from Gigabytes to many Terabytes in size. As the size of the data increases, transfer times may require weeks or months to copy locally.