BioHPC

The UT Southwestern BioHPC is a state-of-the-art high-performance computing service that provides and maintains high-performance computing, storage and client systems for the UTSW research community. BioHPC offers hardware for cluster computing, large data storage, file sharing inside and outside the campus, and a portal to integrated desktop and thin-client computing in individual labs. These offerings are now made available to users across campus, both in the basic sciences and the clinical arenas. The BioHPC infrastructure is operated by a team of experienced computational scientists under the leadership of Liqiang Wang. This development team, as well as administrative support, are co-located with the Lyda Hill Department of Bioinformatics, with hardware infrastructure housed in various spaces throughout campus. The development team covers all aspects of HPC for users, from system expansion and maintenance to carrying out collaborative work on computational research projects. Development work is focused on providing easy access for researchers to the BioHPC infrastructure. The team’s primary mission is to lower the barriers for use of HPC systems for expert and novice users alike, thus allowing more UTSW researchers to work efficiently with computationally complex analyses and big data.