The NIH HPC group plans, manages and supports high-performance computing systems specifically for use by the intramural NIH community. These systems include Biowulf, a 105,000+ processor Linux cluster; Helix, an interactive system for file transfer and management, 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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COVID-19 Research Support

89.0+ Million CPU hours used
2.2+ Million jobs run
67 Peer-Reviewed papers
27 Preprint papers

Sample projects (All projects):

  • Assessing newly generated and previously known compounds for activity against SARS-Cov-2 [NCI]
  • Modeling unreported SARS-Cov2 infection from observed cases, computational modeling of Covid-19 biological systems. [NIDDK]
  • Genome-wide association study of COVID-19 genetic variants vs. phenotypes in the UK BioBank [NHLBI]
  • Genome-wide association studies to identify common and rare germline genetic variants associated with susceptibility to severe or fatal COVID-19 disease [NCI_DCEG]
  • Transcriptomics and network analysis of SARS-CoV-2 infection [NHLBI]
  • Simulations of infection spread in populations [NIDDK]
  • In silico screening of drug candidates [NCI]
Biowulf users with COVID-related projects should contact the HPC staff to get increased priority for their jobs.

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Biowulf Utilization
Tuesday, May 30th, 2023
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Last 24 hrs
205,537 jobs submitted
187,988 jobs completed
2,711,213 CPU hrs used
22 NIH Institutes
222 Principal Investigators
419 users

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Recent Papers that used Biowulf & HPC Resources
(All 5205 papers)

thumbnail image from paper Periaqueductal gray matter and medial prefrontal cortex reflect negative prediction errors during differential conditioning
Gorka, AX; Philips, RT; Torrisi, S et al.
Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci , DOI://10.1093/scan/nsad025 (2023)


thumbnail image from paper Inflammatory and interferon gene expression signatures in patients with mitochondrial disease
Warren, EB; Gordon-Lipkin, EM; Cheung, F et al.
J Transl Med , DOI://10.1186/s12967-023-04180-w (2023)


thumbnail image from paper Influenza A viruses in gulls in landfills and freshwater habitats in Minnesota, United States
Rasmussen, EA; Czaja, A; Cuthbert, FJ et al.
Front Genet , DOI://10.3389/fgene.2023.1172048 (2023)


thumbnail image from paper Cannabidiol sensitizes TRPV2 channels to activation by 2-APB
Gochman, A; Tan, XF; Bae, C et al.
Elife , DOI://10.7554/eLife.86166 (2023)


thumbnail image from paper Constitutive and conditional PACAP deletion reveals distinct phenotypes driven by developmental versus neurotransmitter actions of PACAP
Dana Bakalar, Oksana Gavrilova, Sunny Z. Jiang, Hai-ying Zhang, Snehashis Roy, Sarah K. Williams, Naili Liu, Stephen Wisser, Ted B. Usdin, Lee E. Eiden
Journal of Neuroendocrinology , 10.1111/jne.13286 (2023)


thumbnail image from paper AI-based CT Body Composition Identifies Myosteatosis as Key Mortality Predictor in Asymptomatic Adults
Maxime Nachit , Yves Horsmans, Ronald M. Summers, Isabelle A. Leclercq, Perry J. Pickhardt
Radiology , doi://10.1148/radiol.222008 (2023)


Protocol for using single-cell sequencing to study the heterogeneity of NF1 nerve sheath tumors from clinical biospecimens
Zhang, X; Gopalan, V; Syed, N et al.
STAR Protoc , DOI://10.1016/j.xpro.2023.102297 (2023)


thumbnail image from paper Tracking the emergence of antigenic variants in influenza A virus epidemics in Brazil
Pillai, TK; Johnson, KE; Song, T et al.
Virus Evol , DOI://10.1093/ve/vead027 (2023)


thumbnail image from paper Country-level gender inequality is associated with structural differences in the brains of women and men
Zugman, A; Alliende, LM; Medel, V et al.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A , DOI://10.1073/pnas.2218782120 (2023)


thumbnail image from paper Genome and Genetic Engineering of the House Cricket (Acheta domesticus): A Resource for Sustainable Agriculture
Dossey, AT; Oppert, B; Chu, FC et al.
Biomolecules , DOI://10.3390/biom13040589 (2023)