VCU Central Computing Resources Dedicated to Research

VCU provides central computing resources dedicated to research.  These resources are managed by Technology Services (TS) and by the Center for the Study of Biological Complexity's Supercomputing Systems Group.

Resources managed by Technology Services:

hubert.vcu.edu - Sun v880 - Unix statistical and database applications

4 UltraSparcIII 750 MHz processors
8 GB RAM
216 GB internal disk storage
2 TB Network Attached Storage

Solaris 9 operating system
Hubert accounts are available to current VCU faculty, staff and graduate students.
Undergraduates may use these resources for specific research projects on request from and sponsorship by a VCU faculty member.

Request a Hubert account

 App2Go.vcu.edu -Windows mathematical and statistical applications

dual core 3.00 GZ processors
14 GB RAM
Windows 2003 operating system - Citrix
App2Go accounts are available to current VCU faculty, staff and students.

Request an App2Go account

 

Resources managed by the Super Computing Systems Group of the Center for the Study of Biological Complexity:

These resources are available to faculty, staff, and graduate students. Undergraduates may use these resources for specific research projects on request from and sponsorship by a VCU faculty member.  

gis.vcu.edu - Sun 420R - GIS applications

4 Sparc Ultra II 450 MHz processors
4 GB RAM
72 GB internal disk storage
To request a gis account

bach.vcu.edu - Linux Beowulf cluster - computationally intensive applications

500 processors, 2.6 GHz Opteron
1 TB RAM (4GB-32GB per node)

2TB direct attached Fiber Storage
16.8 TB internal disk storage (73GB per node)
To request a bach account

linn.vcu.edu -Linux Beowulf cluster - computationally intensive applications

54 processors, 3.06 GHz PIV
64 GB RAM (2GB/ node)
2.2TB internal disk storage (66 GB per node)

17TB NAS
2TB NAS
To request a linn account

watson.vcu.edu - Sun v880 - bioinformatics and statistical applications

8 UltraSparcIII 750 MHz processors
32 GB RAM
360 GB internal disk storage
2TB NAS
To request a watson account

fenn.vcu.edu - Linux server - bioinformatics cluster

70 processors 2 GHz G5
140 GB RAM (4 GB per node)
2.6 GB internal disk storage (80GB per node)

viz.vcu.edu - Sun v880 - visualization

6 UltraSparcIV 1.2 HHz processors, 2 Graphics Pipes
24 GB RAM
180 GB internal disk storage
1TB NAS

Storage

5 TB Networked Attached Fibre Storage
5 TB Direct Attached Fibre Storage
34 TB Networked Attached Storage