Bioinformatics and Scientific Computing Facility

Location: Dresden, Germany

Name/Title: MPI-CBG Scientific Computing Facility (Bioinformatics, Scientific Software Development, BioImage Informatics)

Links:

• Core Facility Home Page
• Facility Leader Home Page

Group size: We are seven people (1x Facility Leader, 2x bioinformaticians, 2x software developers and 2x BioImage Informaticians)

Environment: Academic Research Environment

Pertinent hardware info: We have access to our own HPC resources in house:

• Cluster Overview
  • No. of Physical nodes 44
  • CPU Intel Xeon E5-2640 @ 2.50 GHz
  • Memory Size 128GB
  • No. of Physical CPUs in a node 2
  • No. of Cores in a node 12 (2 x hexacores)
  • Total No. of Cores 480
  • 4 GPU nodes equipped with NVidia M2090 Tesla GPU accelerator (Fermi architecture)
  • 200TB Lustre Filesystem

Training: We are a member of the software carpentry project and offer training using this material. We also offer training in image analysis with Fiji/ImageJ and biological data analysis using R/Bioconductor

Bioinformatics support model: We are open to internal and external customers and recharge for our services