Services

BIH HPC Cluster

We operate the main BIH HPC cluster which is available to all MDC and Charité researchers. It consists of ~250 baremetal nodes, including specialised high-memory and GPU hosts.

Service Summary

• BIH HPC Cluster operation
  • Hardware maintenance
  • Linux administration
  • System and queue monitoring
  • Performance tuning
  • Processes and policies for information security and data privacy
• Hosting and operational guidance for power users
  • AG Kircher
  • CUBI
• Additonal Services
  • Secure bulk file exchange for internal and external partners
  • Operation and configuration of HPC network (BIH data center Buch)

Cluster Documentation

• User Documenation: https://hpc-docs.cubi.bihealth.org/
• Getting Started Guide: https://hpc-docs.cubi.bihealth.org/#getting-started
• Cluster news & maintenance announcements: https://hpc-docs.cubi.bihealth.org/#news-maintenance-announcements

User Support

• Community Forum: https://hpc-talk.cubi.bihealth.org/
• Helpdesk: hpc-helpdesk@bih-charite.de
• Mailing-list: bih-cluster@charite.de
• Regular user workshops