Translational Informatics (IDTC 289)

Who we are

What we do• Help finding

new cures for old diseases using large scale data mining, machine learning, modeling, and simulation

Who we work with (on weekly basis)

Industrial collaboration

• $300K/year since 2005

• 2 clusters + other servers

What we need• Big iron

• Chilaca ($70K, 2006) – 16 nodes, 2 CPUs+2GB RAM/node (IDTC – retired)• Synergy ($60K, 2010) – 18 nodes, 8 cores+24GB RAM/node (CARC – production)• Pinon ($99K, 2012) – 33 nodes, 24 cores+64GB RAM/node (IDTC – production)• Access to other CARC clusters

• Good workstations• Most people have both Win and Linux workstations• I use daily

• 32 GB Win7 desktop ($3K)• 16 GB Linux desktop ($1.8K +$2.6K 3D graphic card)

• High speed network connections!!!• Across building• Across campus• Across the world

High speed network – across building$ time scp cbologa@pinon.health.unm.edu:cnav.oeb.gz .cbologa@pinon.health.unm.edu's password: cnav.oeb.gz 100% 14GB 55.8MB/s 04:26 real 4m30.818suser 3m1.771ssys 0m57.960s

$ time scp cnav.oeb.gz cbologa@pinon.health.unm.edu:cbologa@pinon.health.unm.edu's password: cnav.oeb.gz 0% 12MB 0.0KB/s - stalled -^Creal 9m51.847suser 0m0.276ssys 0m0.036s

High speed network – across campus[cbologa@pinon ~]$ time scp cbologa@tudor.alliance.unm.edu:work/cnav/cnav.oeb.gz .

cbologa@tudor.alliance.unm.edu's password:

cnav.oeb.gz 100% 14GB 8.5MB/s 29:06

real 29m14.343s

user 3m13.421s

sys 2m1.670s

[cbologa@pinon ~]$ time scp cnav.oeb.gz cbologa@tudor.alliance.unm.edu:

cbologa@tudor.alliance.unm.edu's password:

cnav.oeb.gz 1% 250MB 0.0KB/s - stalled -^C

Killed by signal 2.

real 9m28.622s

user 0m2.310s

sys 0m0.837s

Research Network• We really need it• We do not want to slow down Netflix and YouTube users with our big

files

• THANK YOU