NIH HPC News & Announcements
New Visualization Partition now available on Biowulf
Date: 02 March 2021 12:03:44
From: David Godlove
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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