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diff --git a/general/help/facilities.md b/general/help/facilities.md index 8884291..7cf5765 100644 --- a/general/help/facilities.md +++ b/general/help/facilities.md @@ -25,19 +25,20 @@ that are fully used by the GeneNetwork team with a total of 64+64+40+28 ## 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 -memory. Octopus is designed for pangenomics work without HIPAA -restrictions. All Octopus nodes run Debian and GNU Guix and use Slurm -for batch submission. We run lizardfs for distributed network 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. This heavily used -cluster, however, is almost self-managed by its users and was featured -on the GNU Guix High Performance Computing [2020 Activity -Report](https://hpc.guix.info/blog/2021/02/guix-hpc-activity-report-2020/)! -In 2021 we expect to double the number nodes. +In 2020 we added a small but powerful HPC cluster (Octopus) dedicated +to [pangenomic](https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.11.10.467921v1) and [genetic](https://genenetwork.org/) computations, consisting of 11 PowerEdge +R6515 AMD EPYC 7402P 24-core CPUs (264 real cores). Nine of these +machines are equipped with 378 GB RAM and two have 1 TB of +memory. All machines have large SSD storage (~10TB) driving 50+ TB +shared network storage. All Octopus nodes run Debian and GNU Guix +and use Slurm for batch submission. We run lizardfs for distributed +network file storage and we run the common workflow language (CWL) and +Docker containers. The racks have dedicated 10Gbs high-speed Cisco +switches and firewalls that are maintained by UTHSC IT staff. This +heavily used cluster, however, is almost self-managed by its users and +was featured on the GNU Guix High Performance Computing +[2020 Activity Report](https://hpc.guix.info/blog/2021/02/guix-hpc-activity-report-2020/)! +In the near future we expect to double the number nodes. <img style="width: 40%; margin: 20px 0px;" alt="Octopus HPC" src="https://github.com/genenetwork/gn-docs/raw/master/general/help/octopus.jpg"/> |