BCC Computing Resources

From Rous

Systems Administration

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This Isilon cluster was purchased in September 2010. Expansions occured in April 2011 and December 2011.
Named after Janet Rowley, a pioneer in the field of chromosome translocations in cancer and winner of the 2009 national medal of science and 2009 presidential medal of freedom.
The cluster currently consists of seven 36NL nodes and three 108NL nodes with a total capacity of over 500 Tb.
accessible from any networked computer. Off-campus access requires mit VPN.
User access is controlled using MIT credentials and accounts are organized into lab groups.
Lab- and User-specific adjustment of default permissions are possible.
Each lab has 1 Tb of free space, additional space is available at a price of $60 per Tb per Month.
Data protection is provided by both hardware redundancy and regular system-wide back-ups to MIT TSM.
to request account, send mailto:charliew@mit.edu and indicate your lab affiliation.

rous.mit.edu is a 96 core Linux cluster purchased in September 2009.
The cluster is equipped with a wide range of bioinformatics software.
x86 architecture with 96 processing cores, 304 GB RAM and 7.8 TB of storage space.
The cluster is named after the Nobel prize winning cancer researcher Peyton Rous
This cluster is the primary computational resource for the BCC, the Biomicro center and also serves the needs of many individual KI researchers.
The obsolete Illumina sequencing equipment (IPAR) was included in the cluster (n3 on 11/15/09, n4 on 1/21/10).
The biomicro center has contributed compute nodes to the system. (n4-n12)