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.