Biomedical Research Computing
Biomedical Research Computing
Latest BMRC News
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 safe...
The BMRC team!
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
