There are currently about 300 user accounts on the cluster, but not all of them are active.

• Users have data sizes ranging from a few MB up to 16TB.
• Many users have more than 1TB of data.

Typical uses:

• The programs our users run are frequently:
  • sequential read/sequential write.
  • heavy on in-memory calculation.

• Specific applications:
  • GWAS (Genome Wide Association Studies).
  • RNASeq analysis.
  • Genome assembly.
  • Molecular evolution.
  • Simulations for method development.

Software:

• R
• Assemblers (velvet, trinity)
• Interproscan (protein analysis)
• tophat, bowtie, cufflinks
• HyPhy
• …