What is DISCOVERY?
DISCOVERY is the on-prem general-purpose high-performance computing cluster (HPC). Research-focused DISCOVERY HPC is PHI compliant for both analysis and storage and a future compliance target environment of NIST 800-171. The cluster is managed by the JH Research IT (RIT) group in collaboration with Cloud & Virtualization Services, and JH Engineering Services.
DISCOVERY resources are free through FY25 with a subsidized cost model forthcoming.
New User Intake – Request an access to the DISCOVERY HPC platform
Request a New Tool/App – Request a Tool or Application for DISCOVERY HPC
Report an Issue – Report a problem/issue related to DISCOVERY HPC
Upon the request submission, a member of Research IT will contact you by email in 1 to 2 business days. Following initial contact, a dedicated meeting to your request will occur within 3 to 5 business days depending on both party’s availability.
| Node Hardware | # of Nodes | Partition – slurm | GPUs (vRAM) | Total RAM | Total Cores |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cisco UCS C240 M5SX | 20 | gpu | NVIDIA Tesla T4 (16 GB) | 30 TB | 960 |
| Cisco UCS B200 M5 Blade Server | 112 | cpu | N/A | 71.4 TB | 4496 |
| Dell PE R760 | 40 | cpu | N/A | 20 TB | 4480 |
| Cisco UCS C240 M6SX -x1 Cisco UCS C240 M6SX -x2 | 3 | gpua100 | gpu201 – 1 A100 x 80GB vRAM gpu202 – 2 A100 x 40GB vRAM gpu203 – 1 A100 x 80GB vRAM | 484 GB | 90 |
| Dell XE8640 | 16 | gpuh100 | NVIDIA H100 (80 GB) | 15.3 TB | 2048 |
| Storage Devices | Storage Available |
|---|---|
| WEKA SSD | 5 PB |
| SAFESTOR NAS Share Mounts | 1-100 TB per project |
- Home directory with 100 GB allocations
- Secure location for custom libraries, packages, and environment builds for managed workflows
- Project directory with 1-50 TB allocations
- Group permissions to allow for collaborative environment
- SLURM Workload Manager with multidisciplinary modules for:
- Genomics/Transcriptomic alignment and analyses
- DNA Sequencing quality control and annotation
- Machine/Deep Learning algorithm development
- Data engineering and management
- Multimodal Image analyses
- OnDemand Web Interface for secure interactions with the HPC to:
- Create SLURM job allocations for GUI applications such as Rstudio, Jupyter Lab, Jupyter Notebook, MatLab, VS Code
- SSH shell to modify and manage data structures with the HPC environment
- Run a Virtual Desktop using RHEL 9 with SLURM allocated resources for a point and click interface for image/video manipulation, segmentation analyses, and more.
- Globus High Assurance transfer protocols to securely transfer data between RIT-HPC managed endpoints and researcher controlled devices