Wisteria High Performance Computing Cluster

Welcome to the documentation site for the Wistar HPC Cluster.

This documentation is designed to provide guidance and insight needed to navigate and leverage the capabilities of The Wistar Institute's HPC cluster. To provide feedback on the wisteria cluster please fill out this form. Please see our News page for recent updates and announcements.

What is an HPC?

A high performance computing (HPC) cluster is a collection of networked computers and data storage. Individual servers in this cluster are called nodes. Our cluster are only accessible to researchers remotely; your gateways to the cluster are the login nodes. From these nodes, you view files and dispatch jobs to other nodes across the cluster configured for computation, called compute nodes. The tool we use to manage these jobs is called a job scheduler. All compute nodes on a cluster mount a shared filesystem; a file server or set of servers store files on a large array of disks. This allows your jobs to access and edit your data from any compute node. See our summary of the hardware and resources we maintain, to understand the details of each component at Wistar.

Quick Start

Login, accounts, Slurm scheduling, monitoring, efficiency, and MFA.

Applications and Software

Modules, containers, Conda, Jupyter, RStudio, CryoSPARC, and code-server.

Data

Storage tiers, transfers, quotas, backups, and Globus.

Resources

Getting help, FAQs, training, and external resources.

See Getting Help for the full support page.