NIH HPC Systems

The NIH HPC group plans, manages and supports high-performance computing systems specifically for the intramural NIH community. These systems include Biowulf, a 105,000+ processor Linux cluster; Helix, an interactive system for file transfer and management, Sciware, a set of applications for desktops, and Helixweb, which provides a number of web-based scientific tools. We provide access to a wide range of computational applications for genomics, molecular and structural biology, mathematical and graphical analysis, image analysis, and other scientific fields.

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All Services Operational

COVID-19 Research Support

80.4+ Million CPU hours used
1.8+ Million jobs run

Sample projects (All projects):

Determining the incidence of age-related clonal hematopoiesis in mild vs. severe COVID-19 patient [NHLBI]
Genome-wide association study of COVID-19 genetic variants vs. phenotypes in the UK BioBank [NHLBI]
Covid-19 transmission modeling and crossover trials. Developing models for flow cytometry data that will be used to gain insights into cellular immune responses to COVID-19 [NIAID]
MD Simulations and Glycan Network Analysis of SARS-COV-2 spike protein [NHLBI]
(1) Identification of drugs that can be repurposed for COVID-19 (2) Using genetic interactions like synthetic lethality and genome scale metabolic modeling to identify new drug targets and combination therapy for COVID-19 [NCI]
Transcriptomics and network analysis of SARS-CoV-2 infection [NHLBI]
Metagenomics of Covid-19 family [NLM]

Biowulf users with COVID-related projects should contact the HPC staff to get increased priority for their jobs.

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Biowulf Utilization

Wednesday, December 8th, 2021

Last 24 hrs
120,134 jobs submitted 95,953 jobs completed 3,120,517 CPU hrs used	25 NIH Institutes 249 Principal Investigators 488 users

Announcements

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30 Nov 2021 : Exciting Matlab changes for Biowulf users
22 Nov 2021 : Upcoming NIH HPC class "Deep Learning by Example on Biowulf - Class #4"
10 Nov 2021 : REMINDER: Zoom-In Consult with HPC staff today (Wed 10 Nov)
9 Nov 2021 : Exciting News for Biowulf Matlab users
8 Nov 2021 : Zoom-In Consult for Biowulf Users (Wed 10 Nov)
7 Nov 2021 : The NIH Biowulf Cluster is now available
3 Nov 2021 : FINAL REMINDER: DOWNTIME for Biowulf/HPC November 5-7, 2021

Recent Papers that used Biowulf & HPC Resources

(All publications)

Immuno-transcriptomic profiling of extracranial pediatric solid malignancies
Brohl, AS; Sindiri, S; Wei, JS et al.
Cell Rep , DOI://10.1016/j.celrep.2021.110047 (2021)

Inferred expression regulator activities suggest genes mediating cardiometabolic genetic signals
Hoskins, JW; Chung, CC; O'Brien, A et al.
PLoS Comput Biol , DOI://10.1371/journal.pcbi.1009563 (2021)

Single-nucleus transcriptomic analysis of human dorsal root ganglion neurons
Nguyen, MQ; von Buchholtz, LJ; Reker, AN et al.
Elife , DOI://10.7554/eLife.71752 (2021)

Multiview confocal super-resolution microscopy
Wu, Y; Han, X; Su, Y et al.
Nature , DOI://10.1038/s41586-021-04110-0 (2021)

Antipsychotic medication-mediated cognitive change in schizophrenia and polygenic score for cognitive ability
Blackman, RK; Dickinson, D; Eisenberg, DP et al.
Schizophr Res Cogn , DOI://10.1016/j.scog.2021.100223 (2022)

Genome-Guided Discovery of Natural Products through Multiplexed Low-Coverage Whole-Genome Sequencing of Soil Actinomycetes on Oxford Nanopore Flongle
Rajwani, R; Ohlemacher, SI; Zhao, G et al.
mSystems , DOI://10.1128/mSystems.01020-21 (2021)

Cataloging Human PRDM9 Allelic Variation Using Long-Read Sequencing Reveals PRDM9 Population Specificity and Two Distinct Groupings of Related Alleles
Alleva, B; Brick, K; Pratto, F et al.
Front Cell Dev Biol , DOI://10.3389/fcell.2021.675286 (2021)

Integration of adeno-associated virus (AAV) into the genomes of most Thai and Mongolian liver cancer patients does not induce oncogenesis
Schäffer, AA; Dominguez, DA; Chapman, LM et al.
BMC Genomics , DOI://10.1186/s12864-021-08098-9 (2021)

Extended antibody-framework-to-antigen distance observed exclusively with broad HIV-1-neutralizing antibodies recognizing glycan-dense surfaces
Lee, M; Changela, A; Gorman, J et al.
Nat Commun , DOI://10.1038/s41467-021-26579-z (2021)

Whole genome and exome sequencing reference datasets from a multi-center and cross-platform benchmark study
Zhao, Y; Fang, LT; Shen, TW et al.
Sci Data , DOI://10.1038/s41597-021-01077-5 (2021)