Biomedical Research Computing
Biomedical Research Computing
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December 2020 - Latest updates from the BMRC team:
BMRC is continuing to support researchers working from home, and in particular we are proud to have been able to offer so much support to the various Covid-19 research projects across the Medical Sciences Division. Please remember that access to BMRC facilities is only via the University network or via University / departmental VPNs. BMRC does not itself enable access to our systems, this is the responsibility of the host departments.
Please continue to respect the login nodes. They are the key access gateway for hundreds of researchers working remotely and from home. We monitor these nodes especially carefully and will immediately and without warning kill any jobs that threaten their general usability.
Hopefully 2021 will bring better times for everyone. For BMRC, many changes are coming:
- A bigger BMRC team to provide better and more specialised support for our users, who will include researchers from the Kennedy Institute from Easter
- 2,304 new CPU cores will be joining the cluster to replace the 1,728 cores of the old "C" nodes, taking us closer to 10,000 CPU cores in total
- Expansion of GPFS3 to 11PB raw in addition to the 5PB of GPFS2 to meet the growing data demands of our users
- Faster InfiniBand (HDR) including an upgrade to 800Gbit/s for the WHG-BDI link
- Faster Ethernet (100g) including a new 400Gbit/s WHG-BDI link
- Exploring the potential of Lustre as a secure, multi-tenancy, high-performance filesystem to enable a greater range of research to be housed on our systems
- A prototype multi-site, encrypted Ceph object storage system to provide a truly scalable, secure archive layer for everyone's bulk data needs
As ever... If you have difficulties please email bmrc-help@medsci.ox.ac.uk for assistance... stay home, stay safe...
Season's Greetings from the BMRC team!
JOB OPPORTUNITIES WITH BMRC
December 2020:
The Biomedical Research Computing Facility
The Biomedical Research Computing (BMRC) facility provides a unified platform for biomedical reseach computing accessible to departments as well as to collaborators from around Oxford. Our services include:
- High-performance batch (cluster) computing, including specialised hardware and software to support GPU-enabled code and AI/Machine Learning
- Large, fast storage systems backed by ultra-fast networking
- Low-cost data storage
- On-premise cloud computing (OpenStack)
- Training and workshops on using these facilities
Our future plans include:
- Virtual servers and desktops
- On-premise Object Storage (S3)
- High-compliance compute platforms