Scientific Computing

Scientific Computing provides and supports the LMB’s core Unix systems. These systems include email, authenticating user access to the LMB network, and the provision of remotely accessible Unix machines and desktop workstations.

Computational resources at the LMB include a High Performance Computing (HPC) cluster, together with appropriate storage.
Briefly, the cluster consists of:
# 7280 “Cascade lake” CPU core partition
# 192 “Pascal/Turing” GPU partition
# 32 “A100” GPU partition for machine learning.

Data storage is provided by:
# Cephfs – 10PB
# Lustre – 7PB
# BeeGFS – 730TB
# ZFS -1.7PB
Full details can be found on the facility’s own web page here: https://www.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/scicomp/
Staff from the Scientific Computing team are available to provide advice on how best to access these resources. A wide range of scientific software is pre-installed and readily available.

Jake Grimmett heads Scientific Computing.