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 fair usage
• Scale Out Storage
• Open OnDemand Portal (web-based graphical interface to cluster resources)

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
• However, we do not have the necessary staff to provide user training or application level support

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