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CIBR and other shared clusters

CIBR and a number of specific faculty have sponsored the purchase of several clusters managed for shared use by faculty. CIBR faculty may request moderate allocations for free, as a benefit of CIBR membership (which is free). Those requiring larger resources or dedicated time can participate in the purchase of future cluster equipment, and will get access to corresponding resources for the life of the cluster.

The 4 clusters currently in operation are:

Name	Cores	Storage	Purchased	Free CIBR Access	Paid Access	Notes
prism.grid.bcm.edu	704	63+88 TB	2013	25,000 CPU-hr/qtr	Chiu, Barth, Wensel, Ludtke, Guan
torus.grid.bcm.edu	576+64	40+48+25 TB	2011-2012	10,000 CPU-hr/qtr	Chiu, Ludtke, Barth	Has 4 special 'bioinformatics' nodes with 16 cores and dedicated high performance storage
gauss.grid.bcm.edu	632	48 TB	2007-2010	None	Ludtke, Chiu, Lichtarge, Milosavljevic, Barth
asterix.grid.bcm.edu	180+42 GPUs	10 TB	2009-2011	None	Ludtke, Chiu	GPUs, special projects, NCMI personnel can contact Dr. Ludtke
store1	-	350 TB Raid6x2	2013	variable	-	Reliable storage for inactive data

Each cluster has independent user accounts, as different faculty contributed different amounts to each. Please click on one of the links above for detailed policies and procedures for each cluster

All of the clusters run some version of CentOS Linux. We do not provide any commercial software, but most standard open-source tools are installed, and users are welcome to install commercial or free software within their own accounts. We may also be able to install other software system-wide, if you have such a need, please ask.

In manuscripts, grant proposals, presentations, and other publications, please acknowledge the assistance from the CIBR Center by including a statement similar to the following: "We gratefully acknowledge the assistance and computing resources provided by the CIBR Center for Computational and Integrative Biomedical Research of Baylor College of Medicine in the completion of this work."

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'''In manuscripts, grant proposals, presentations, and other publications, please acknowledge the assistance from the CIBR Center by including a statement similar to the following:'''
"We gratefully acknowledge the assistance and computing resources provided by the CIBR Center for Computational and Integrative Biomedical Research of Baylor College of Medicine in the completion of this work."