Lewis & Clark was able to acquire a high performance computing cluster during the summer of 2017, as a result of Greta Binford’s capital equipment request. The cluster is a smaller version of the cluster used at Oregon State University’s Center for genome Research and Biocomputing.
The cluster, nicknamed BLT, has one multipurpose login node (mayo), three identical worker nodes (bacon, lettuce, and tomato), and one GPU node (sprouts). It has a total of 192 processing cores and 1500 gigabytes of memory. The login node also functions as the parallel filesystem for all of the workers, with 140TB of RAID-redundant disk space. This means that workers can access data stored in your home directory, which makes input and output staging extremely easy.
If you are interested in using the High Performance Computing cluster, please contact Jeremy.