Welcome to BioHPC Home Page

One of the challenges of High Performance Computing (HPC) is the user accessibility. At the Cornell University Computational Biology Service Unit (which is also a Microsoft HPC institute) we have developed a suit of computational biology applications for HPC (BioHPC) that allows researchers from biological laboratories to submit their jobs to a parallel cluster through an easy-to-use web interface. Users don't need to deal with parallel job submission, queues, clusters: knowing the application, parameters and input is all that is required.

BioHPC is a suite of applications modified and adapted for efficient use in an HPC environment with ASP.NET interface allowing both easy access and use, as well as easy administration of users, applications, data and other features. For more information about the interface, administration and usage please see our info pages or documentation.

BioHPC interacts with Microsoft Windows HPC Server 2008 or Microsoft Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003   as a cluster scheduler, it also works with remote clusters via HPC Profile/JSDL.

The suite  is freely available for download and use. We only request that each installation be registered with us. Any new modules, applications and improvements that you wish to share should be submitted to us, so they can be incorporated into BioHPC release and made available to all. See the license for more details.

BioHPC is quite complex, but installation is not that difficult and you can always contact us with any questions. Examples of working BioHPC installations that were made available for guests are listed in the implementations section. You may want to register with BioHPC in order to receive notifications about new releases and bug fixes.

Development of BioHPC is currently supported in part by Microsoft Research.