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Monthly Archive for July, 2010

Pegasus

We are using “Pegasus”, a new Linux-based supercomputer that belongs to the Center for Computational Science to do RNAseq analysis.  Pegasus has 5,000 CPUs and lives at the Terremark Network Access Point (NAP) of the Americas in downtown Miami.  The NAP has a ten gigabit HPC network connection to the UM campuses.  The RNseq analysis is slow – typically taking 12 hours per sample on Pegasus – kind of scary.