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diff --git a/general/help/facilities.md b/general/help/facilities.md index 1d1067d..deac86b 100644 --- a/general/help/facilities.md +++ b/general/help/facilities.md @@ -23,6 +23,9 @@ services that run in isolated containers. Effectively, we have three outward facing servers that are fully used by the GeneNetwork team with a total of 64+64+40+28 = 196 real cores. +## Octopus HPC cluster + + Late 2020 we added a small HPC cluster (Octopus), consisting of 11 PowerEdge R6515 AMD EPYC 7402P 24-core CPUs (264 real cores). Nine of these machines are equipped with 128 GB RAM and two nodes have 1 TB of @@ -33,6 +36,10 @@ file storage and we run the common workflow language (CWL) and Docker containers. The racks have dedicated high-speed Cisco switches and firewalls that are maintained by UTHSC IT staff. + + +## Specials + We also run some 'specials' including an ARM-based NVIDIA Jetson and a RISC-V [PolarFire SOC](https://www.cnx-software.com/2020/07/20/polarfire-soc-icicle-64-bit-risc-v-and-fpga-development-board-runs-linux-or-freebsd/). We @@ -40,6 +47,8 @@ have also ordered two RISC-V [SiFive](https://www.sifive.com/blog/the-heart-of-risc-v-development-is-unmatched) computers. +## ISAAC access + In addition to above hardware the GeneNetwork team also has batch submission access to the HIPAA complient cluster computing resource at the ISAAX computing facility operated by the UT Joint Institute for @@ -57,6 +66,8 @@ services because of stringent security requirements. ISAAC however, can be highly useful for precomputed genomics and genetics results using standardized pipelines. +## Deployment + The software stack is maintained and deployed throughout with GNU Guix, a modern software package manager. All current tools are maintained on diff --git a/general/help/octopus.jpg b/general/help/octopus.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..c59f609 --- /dev/null +++ b/general/help/octopus.jpg |
