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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Recent Papers that used Biowulf & HPC Resources

Molecular basis for the regulation of membrane proteins through preferential lipid solvation
Bernhardt, N; Ozturk, TN; Zhang, S et al.
Nat Chem Biol , DOI://10.1038/s41589-025-02032-w (2025)


The Time-Dependent Association Between Irritable Bowel Syndrome and All-Cause and Cause-Specific Mortality in the NIH-AARP Cohort Study
Gutiérrez-Torres, DS; Li, F; Liao, LM et al.
Am J Gastroenterol , DOI://10.14309/ajg.0000000000003861 (2025)


Taxonomic-Level Protein Quantification in Metaproteomics Using a Biomass-Constrained Expectation-Maximization Approach
Alves, G; Hamaneh, MB; Ogurtsov, AY; Yu, YK; ,
J Am Soc Mass Spectrom , DOI://10.1021/jasms.5c00332 (2026)


Spatial Analysis of Hereditary Diffuse Gastric Cancer Reveals Indolent Phenotype of Signet Ring Cell Precursors
Gallanis, AF; Gamble, LA; Oguz, C et al.
Mol Cancer Res , DOI://10.1158/1541-7786.MCR-24-1039 (2025)


An insight into the ovary and midgut transcriptome of Dermacentor nitens tick
Lu, S; Bosio, CF; Andrade-Silva, V et al.
Ticks Tick Borne Dis , DOI://10.1016/j.ttbdis.2025.102600 (2026)


Children's state anxiety before MRI scanning and resting state functional connectivity in large scale brain networks
Qamar, P; Díaz, DE; Benson, BE et al.
Sci Rep , DOI://10.1038/s41598-025-34410-8 (2026)


PCLIPtools: a robust framework for identifying RNA-protein interaction sites from PAR-CLIP experiments
Polash, AH; Hafner, M; ,
Nucleic Acids Res , DOI://10.1093/nar/gkag062 (2026)


Eos plays a critical role in Treg homeostasis and modulates the function of recirculating thymic Tregs in the control of Treg development
Xie, X; Thornton, AM; Tanwar, S et al.
Cell Rep , DOI://10.1016/j.celrep.2025.116838 (2026)