April, 2010

Nor-Tech developing clusters for bioinformatics research at MIT and weather modeling

Nor-Tech is currently developing an HPC cluster for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to be used for bioinformatics research. The MIT cluster uses Rocks® Cluster Suite and QDR Infiniband by Mellanox and has been configured to automatically setup user storage in an XFS formatted DAS file system.

Nor-Tech's MIT Bioinformatic cluster flows data between its processors using InfiniBand, which offers significantly higher throughput low latency as compared to GigE.

Additionally, Nor-Tech installed CHARMM, the versatile molecular simulation program, and NAMD, an open source parallel molecular dynamics simulation package based on Charm++, and setup example PBS/Torque scripts for running jobs.

Nor-tech is also developing a Rocks HPC cluster for weather modeling. This cluster uses NFS NAS storage based on Open-e DSS V6. Nor-tech configured the cluster to automatically setup user storage in the NFS NAS storage.

Rocks in an open-source Linux cluster distribution for HPC clusters developed by NPACI and SDSC. Rocks includes integral applications that tie together the components of a cluster.

Click here to learn about other Bioinformatics clusters developed by Nor-Tech.

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