Penn State Health’s High-Performance Computing (HPC) system is dedicated for use by Penn State College of Medicine researchers. The HPC system was purchased to provide researchers the computational and storage tools needed to efficiently and effectively process data.
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Instrumentation and Services
Penn State College of Medicine’s Informatics and Technology group provides full support of both the operation and maintenance of the HPC environment. The HPC system is physically located in the University Technology Center (UTC) of Penn State Health in Hershey. The UTC is secured by controlled/managed access, has redundant cooling and power and is backed up by redundant generators, the center is staffed 24/7.
Data stored on the HPC is backed up regularly with copies of the data kept in three secure locations, two of which are outside the Hershey area.
To keep up with demand, the HPC system has more than 250 programs installed and is regularly expanded with additional processors and GPU nodes. This makes it ideal for performing genomic, image, simulation, statistical and other scientific analysis.
Currently the HPC consists of 2,228 CPU cores (4,456 threads), 161,448 CUDA cores (12 P100 GPUs with 16GB, 20 V100 GPUs with 32GB), with 27 terabytes of RAM and 3.9 petabytes of storage space.
Procedures, Protocols and Forms
Investigators should cite Penn State Health High-Performance Computing and list the equipment and/or programs utilized either in the Materials and Methods section or the Acknowledgements section of any article.
The following boilerplate language can be used in grant applications when referencing Penn State Health High-Performance Computing.
Penn State Health’s High-Performance Computing (HPC) system is dedicated for use by Penn State College of Medicine researchers. The HPC system was purchased to provide researchers the computational and storage tools needed to efficiently and effectively process data.
Penn State College of Medicine’s Informatics and Technology group provides full support of both the operation and maintenance of the HPC environment. The HPC system is physically located in the University Technology Center (UTC) of Penn State Health in Hershey. The UTC is secured by controlled/managed access, has redundant cooling and power and is backed up by redundant generators; the center is staffed 24/7.
Data stored on the HPC is backed up regularly with copies of the data kept in three secure locations, two of which are outside the Hershey area.
To keep up with demand, the HPC system has more than 250 programs installed and is regularly expanded with additional processors and GPU nodes. This makes it ideal for performing genomic, image, simulation, statistical and other scientific analysis.
Currently the HPC consists of 3,052 CPU cores (6,104 threads), 221,184 CUDA cores (12x P100 GPUs with 16GB, 20x V100 GPUs with 32GB, 12x A100 with 80 GB), with 58 terabytes of RAM and 4.2 petabytes of storage space.
The cost for the HPC system is derived from charges for computational processing hours per core utilization and storage per GB per month.
Work with HPC
The cost for the HPC system is derived from charges for computational processing hours per core utilization and storage per GB per month.
For details, email HPCcore@pennstatehealth.psu.edu.