Category Archives: HPC Guidance

Deploying GPUs for Classroom and Remote Learning

As one of NVIDIA’s Elite partners, we see a lot of GPU deployments in higher education. GPUs have been proving themselves in HPC for over a decade, and they are the de-facto standard for deep learning research. They’re also becoming … Continue reading

2nd Gen AMD EPYC “Rome” CPU Review: A Groundbreaking Leap for HPC

Index of our review: Changes vs Previous Architectures Leadership Performance Class Leading Price-Performance Chiplets + IO & Compute Dies Memory Bandwidth PCI-E Gen4 Infinity Fabric SKU Selection for Clusters The 2nd Generation AMD EPYC “Rome” CPUs are here! Rome brings … Continue reading

Improvements in scaling of Bowtie2 alignment software and implications for RNA-Seq pipelines

 This is a guest post by Adam Marko, an IT and Biotech Professional with 10+ years of experience across diverse industries What is Bowtie2? Bowtie2 is a commonly used, open-source, fast, and memory efficient application used as part of a … Continue reading

CryoEM takes center stage: how compute, storage, and networking needs are growing with CryoEM research

 This is a guest post by Adam Marko, an IT and Biotech Professional with 10+ years of experience across diverse industries Background and history Cryogenic Electron Microscopy (CryoEM) is a type of electron microscopy that images molecular samples embedded in … Continue reading

Designing A Production-Class AI Cluster

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and, more specifically, Deep Learning (DL) are revolutionizing the way businesses utilize the vast amounts of data they collect and how researchers accelerate their time to discovery. Some of the most significant examples come from the way … Continue reading