High-Performance Computing

The High-Performance Computing (HPC) Facility provides the hardware and staff to support bioinformatics and biocomputational research. The central component of this facility is a large (256 processor) cluster of high-speed Intel-based nodes, along with multi-terabyte storage and tape back up.

The HPC cluster currently consists of 64 nodes, each containing two Xeon 5160 Dual Core CPUs (3 GHz) and 8 GB RAM. These cluster nodes are connected to an array of very high-performance disks with a total capacity of 43 TB. The disk array is backed up by a tape library.

The current usage fees (billed monthly) are:

$ 0.072 per CPU-hour
$ 0.10 per GB per month

An account on the PGFI high-performance cluster and use of the facilities constitutes consent of the PGFI cluster Usage Policy.

For more technical information, see our internal HPC wiki.

To request an account

The use of PGFI R&D facilities is a benefit of PGFI membership (for membership information, see Becoming a Member). PGFI members can also sponsor non-member use of the facilities.

Download: R&D Facilities Application (PDF,DOC)

Completed applications should be returned to:

Joyce Donnelly
302B Lynch Labs/6018
Phone: (215) 746-1764 | Fax: (215) 746-6258
Email: joyced@upenn.edu

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