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.

Current Status    All Services Operational

COVID-19 Research Support

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

Sample projects (All projects):

  • Stochastic modeling of COVID-19 pandemic infection patterns [NIA]
  • Genome-wide association study of COVID-19 genetic variants vs. phenotypes in the UK BioBank [NHLBI]
  • Studying maturation of the SARS Cov2 main protease [NIDDK]
  • SARS-CoV-2 RNA structural analyses [NIAMS]
  • (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]
  • Genome-wide association studies to identify common and rare germline genetic variants associated with susceptibility to severe or fatal COVID-19 disease [NCI_DCEG]
Biowulf users with COVID-related projects should contact the HPC staff to get increased priority for their jobs.

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Biowulf Utilization
Thursday, March 30th, 2023
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Last 24 hrs
88,904 jobs submitted
59,220 jobs completed
3,601,230 CPU hrs used
26 NIH Institutes
277 Principal Investigators
618 users

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Recent Papers that used Biowulf & HPC Resources

thumbnail image from paper Neurotrophin signaling is a central mechanism of salivary dysfunction after irradiation that disrupts myoepithelial cells
Chibly, AM; Patel, VN; Aure, MH et al.
NPJ Regen Med , DOI://10.1038/s41536-023-00290-7 (2023)


thumbnail image from paper Structures of Cancer Antigen Mesothelin and Its Complexes with Therapeutic Antibodies
Zhan, J; Lin, D; Watson, N et al.
Cancer Res Commun , DOI://10.1158/2767-9764.CRC-22-0306 (2023)


thumbnail image from paper THINGS-data, a multimodal collection of large-scale datasets for investigating object representations in human brain and behavior
Hebart, MN; Contier, O; Teichmann, L et al.
Elife , DOI://10.7554/eLife.82580 (2023)


thumbnail image from paper The utility of a type 2 diabetes polygenic score in addition to clinical variables for prediction of type 2 diabetes incidence in birth, youth and adult cohorts in an Indigenous study population
Wedekind, LE; Mahajan, A; Hsueh, WC et al.
Diabetologia , DOI://10.1007/s00125-023-05870-2 (2023)


thumbnail image from paper Identification of GPI-anchored protein LYPD1 as an essential factor for odontoblast differentiation in tooth development
Fu, Y; Miyazaki, K; Chiba, Y et al.
J Biol Chem , DOI://10.1016/j.jbc.2023.104638 (2023)


thumbnail image from paper A dataset for medical instructional video classification and question answering
Gupta, D; Attal, K; Demner-Fushman, D; ,
Sci Data , DOI://10.1038/s41597-023-02036-y (2023)


thumbnail image from paper The Foundational Data Initiative for Parkinson Disease: Enabling efficient translation from genetic maps to mechanism
Bressan, E; Reed, X; Bansal, V et al.
Cell Genom , DOI://10.1016/j.xgen.2023.100261 (2023)


thumbnail image from paper Progressive neuronal plasticity in primate visual cortex during stimulus familiarization
Koyano, KW; Esch, EM; Hong, JJ et al.
Sci Adv , DOI://10.1126/sciadv.ade4648 (2023)


thumbnail image from paper A deeper insight into the sialome of male and female Culex quinquefasciatus mosquitoes
Lu, S; Martin-Martin, I; Ribeiro, JM; Calvo, E; ,
BMC Genomics , DOI://10.1186/s12864-023-09236-1 (2023)


A bispecific inhibitor of complement and coagulation blocks activation in complementopathy models via a novel mechanism
Andersen, JF; Lei, H; Strayer, EC et al.
Blood , DOI://10.1182/blood.2022019359 (2023)