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.
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.
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DISCOVERY (HPC) Hardware Specs
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Node Hardware
# of Nodes
Allocation
Cisco UCS C240 M5SX
20
GPU Compute Nodes
Cisco UCS B200 M5 Blade Server
78
CPU Compute Nodes
Partition
# of CPU/GPU per node
RAM (per Node)
GPU Nodes
6x Nvidia Tesla T4 16GB
30 TB (1,546 GB)
CPU Nodes
48x Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 5418Y
37 TB (770 GB)
Storage Devices
Storage Available
WEKA SSD
5 PB
SAFESTOR NAS Share Mounts
1-100 TB per project
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Available Services & Tools
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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
