New Visualization Partition now available on Biowulf

The NIH HPC staff has created a visualization partition that enables 
applications with GPU-accelerated graphics to run directly on Biowulf.  You can 
use this partition to visualize large data sets, manipulate the visualizations 
responsively on Biowulf, or create publication quality figures, for example.

Applications that may benefit from using GPU resources within the visualization 
partition include but are not limited to biomedical imaging and molecular 
modeling programs. For instance:

- AFNI / SUMA 
- FSL / FSLeyes
- VMD 
- ChimeraX
- Schrödinger
- Connectome Workbench

How it works:

The visualization partition is composed of K20x GPU nodes.  In contrast with 
other system resources, these nodes are allocated in their entirety to one user 
at a time.  Walltime limits are kept low since these resources are limited. To
use the GPU hardware within the compute node, you will need to use TurboVNC 
and follow the procedure at https://hpc.nih.gov/docs/svis.html

Please direct questions or comments to staff@hpc.nih.gov. 

The NIH HPC Staff

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