Message of the Day.
A course on "Computational Analysis of Ultra-High-Throughput (UHT) Sequencing Data"
will use the Vital-IT infrastructure from the:
13th Sep. 2010 until the 17th Sep. 2010.
The load on our computing infrastructure may be higher during this time.
Please contact us if you need more information.
(VF, 05.08.2010)
Vital-IT maintains one of the most powerful life-science computational facilities in Europe.
Vital-IT presentation movie
(9.2 MBytes, Windows Media Format)
Vital-IT Infrastructure
In collaboration with Intel Corp. and Hewlett-Packard Corp. we have installed several "compute clusters":
- A development clusters, containing Intel Xeon 64-bit processors.
- A production cluster, containing
- 64 single-core Intel Xeon 64-bit processors,
- 256 Xeon 64-bit cores (128 sockets) hosted in 64 blade servers with 8 or 16 GByte memory each,
- 768 Xeon 64-bit cores (192 sockets) hosted in 96 blade servers with 16 GByte memory each.
In total, the cluster supports ∼800 TBytes of disk storage, and provides more than
2 Tflops peak computing performance.
The operating system of the Xeon clusters is Advanced Server 4.6 for x86_64.
In addition, the facility has several large database servers (MySQL and Oracle)
and several large shared-memory machines (4 processors, 64GB RAM / 4 servers with 16 to 24 cores, 256GB RAM).
Access to the development farm is freely available to all developers of our partner institutions. Access to the production farm is limited to approved projects.