Our group started using the CHPC resources intensively almost three years ago. We were guided by the CHPC staff through their available resources for chemistry, as well as through some basic aspects of Gaussian, a major program used for molecular computations, and Schrödinger’s MacroModel for conformational analysis. We initially obtained a temporary allocation, which was […]
Campus big data project may point the way to Alzheimer’s early detection The team uses the Center for High Throughput Computing (CHTC), supported by UW-Madison and the Morgridge Institue, to segment MRI brain images that in some cases can take 12-24 hours for a single brain. “For many hundreds of brain scans, we need a […]
Currently, all users of a special microscope that generates terabytes of data must use a Windows workstation for data processing. Bob adapted this PC workflow to Harvard’s HPC environment; this now provides flexibility & higher throughput for the lab’s image processing needs. “To help us start tackling this challenge, we greatly benefited from the help […]
“My research group recently became interested in using a program called VAPOR (www.vapor.ucar.edu) to help us easily and interactively visualize the results of large numerical simulations of cloud systems. We wanted to find a way to run VAPOR on one of our CHPC nodes and display the GUI remotely. That way we would need only […]
The University of Hawaii ITS Advanced Computing Cluster launched on Tuesday, April 14, 2015. See the announcement here
“I am a sixth year graduate student in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology. I started a transcriptomics project with little experience in coding and no experience in high powered computing (HPC). Without Bob Freeman’s work through ACI-REF I do not think I would have been able to complete my bioinformatics project. I was […]
Advanced Computing Initiative helps UW-Madison researchers sift and winnow data The Advanced Computing Initiative (ACI) links researchers and computing resources to maximize productivity.
“Through an expired grant NSF ATM- 1127692, Martin Cuma and Anita Orendt were instrumental in enabling me to analyze very large data sets of photographs of hydrometeors in free fall. The amount of data I was collecting became a processing nightmare, and Martin and Anita progressively helped me navigate my MATLAB analysis from my laptop […]
Automation offers big solution to big data in astronomy
Whole genome alignment is crucial to a large number of important applications in genomics, and is particularly important to our work on convergent evolution in birds. The current state of the art software for whole genome alignment is progressiveCactus, developed by the same group that built the UCSC genome browser. Getting this software to work […]