BioFrontiers Computing

BioFrontiers Compute Resources

The BioFrontiers HPC group provides professionally managed computing and storage support to BioFrontiers faculty and researchers. The group currently manages over 10PB of research storage capacity to meet expanding requirements in support of the BioFrontiers mission. All persistent storage is constantly replicated to an offsite location for the purposes of data recovery and version retention. The group manages a highly robust network infrastructure within the BioFrontiers computing environment to enable bandwidth for large datasets traversing between computing and storage resources, to share with collaborators, and for downstream analysis. The group provides system administration management for the BioFrontiers computing cluster; “Fiji”. This cluster (described in detail below) is designed with a much higher memory to core ratio than your average compute environment, making them well suited to typical genomics and metagenomics applications (such as assembly, phylogenetic tree construction, short read sequence analysis, etc). A significant collection of Bioinformatics software packages are installed and maintained on all computational systems for the BioFrontiers research community.