1. birgHPC Creating Instant Computing Clusters for Bioinformatics and Molecular Dynamics Chew Teong Han Bioinformatics Research Group Faculty of Biosciences & Bioengineering Universiti Teknologi Malaysia 2. bi rgTeam 3. Introduction 4. Beowulf circa 1996 NASA/CESDIS US History 5. PS3s circa 2007 NCSU US 6. Tienhe-1A circa 2010 NSC China 7. Motivations 8. Daytime ~Full load Night time/ Holidays ~Idle 9. Solution + { something } = - - - 10. bi rg HPC + 11. Features

Required only one CD/flash drive on head node 12. Use netboot image to boot compute nodes 13. Auto config of SSH, firewall, IP, apache, home directory detection, slots detection, 14. Include parallel-enabled compilers, libraries 15. Include parallel-ready bioinformatics suite: Gromacs, NAMD, mpiBLAST & ClustalW-MPI 16. Ganglia cluster monitoring 17. Include job script

26. Availability http://birg1.fbb.utm.my/birghpc 27. http://sourceforge.net/projects/birghpc/ 28. Oxford Bioinformatics 29. Acknowledgment

Team members

• Dr Shahir Shamsir Omar 30. Joyce Tan Kwee Hong 31. Farizuwana Akma binti Zulkifle

Funding

• MOSTI TechnoFund vote 79910

Facilities

• Universiti Teknologi Malaysia

32. Contact Us

Dr Mohd Shahir Shamsir Omar

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Chew Teong Han

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