About

About

The High Performance Compute (HPC) IT team maintains, extends and supports the scientific compute systems at the Berlin Institute of Health. The prime service offered by HPC-IT is the BIH cluster which was designed and optimized for processing human sequence data (WGS) for translational research. The system is currently used by 35+ groups and 200+ users mostly for various bionformatics data analysis but also for simulation, image analysis and machine learning.

BIH Cluster

• Designed and optimized for processing human sequence data (WGS) for translational research
• Specific requirements:
  • Excellent I/O performance
  • Large storage (petabyte scale)
  • Suitable queuing system and rules
  • Processes and measures to ensure data privacy
  • Processes and measures suitable for research applications
• You can read about the technical specification here
• We have established an elaborate user and rights management process, including
  • Authentication with MDC or Charité account
  • Private data spaces for groups and projects
  • Specific authorizations
  • Documentation of all access rights

User and Rights Management

User Committee

• Birte Kehr
• Martin Kircher
• Uwe Ohler
• Nils Blüthgen
• Roland Schwarz
• Frederick Klauschen

Upcoming Features

• Proper two factor authorization with yubikeys
• More GPUs: potential users - get involved
• Large volume long term archiving with MDC-IT
• Small volume backup system with MDC-IT