ERIS

Location: Boston and Cambridge MA, USA

Partners HealtCare Systems

• Consisting of Massachusetts General Hospital
• Brigham and Womens Hospital
• Dana Farber Cancer Institute
• Mclean Hospital
• Spaulding Rehab Hospital
• + 7 regional hospitals

Name/Title: Brent G. Richter, Director:

• Enterprise Research Infrastructure & Systems (ERIS)
• Massachusetts General Hospital & Brigham and Womens Hospital Site Research IT Services
• Bioinformatics, Harvard Medical School/Partners Healthcare Cencter for Gentics and Genomics

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Group size: Diverse:

• 3 bioinformatician developers
• 3 Systems Engineers/administrators
• 1 Scientific & parallel computing Support Specialist/informatician
• 1 DBA/ DB developer
• 4 Site (MGH, BWH and McLean) senior support specialists
• 8 Site Infrastructure Technicians

Environment: Diverse:

• Linux, Windows, HPC clusters (windows and Linux), Massive Storage, Internal Cloud, Oracle, Open DB's, Application support, web hosting

Tools: Sequencing, next-gen instruments, proteomics, protein folding, R, SAS, everything in public domain.

Pertinent hardware info: Mainly HP, Sun, some dell, vanilla boxes, Cisco, IB

Training:

Bioinformatics support model: Research-grade SLA's, support pipelines and tools as they can be applied to HPC environment (linux and windows clusters, Large shared-memory machines, web hosted pipelines, etc.