RC Capabilities
Research Computing Capabilities
Collaboration
The Research Computing team is composed of full-time PhD scientists and domain experts whose expertise spans diverse fields (e.g., Big Data, Bioinformatics, Data Analytics, Machine Learning, and Molecular Dynamics). The team is eagerly open to collaboration with researchers in multiple phases of their research, including:
- Container building/development
- Course Development
- Data analysis
- Data cleaning and transforming
- Data visualization (exploratory and publication quality)
- Final publication preparation
- Grant/proposal development and idea generation
- HPC workflow optimization
- Reproducibility
- Statistical modeling
If you’re interested in working with the RC team, drop into office hours, schedule a consultation, or send an email to rchelp@northeastern.edu.
Compute
The HPC cluster is connected to the university network over 10 Gbps Ethernet (GbE) for high-speed data transfer and provides access to over 1,024 CPU nodes, 50,000 CPU cores, and over 200 GPUs. Compute nodes are wired with 10 GbE or a high-performance HDR200 InfiniBand (IB) interconnect running at 200 Gbps (with some nodes running HDR100 IB if the HDR200 IB is not supported).
Consultations
Schedule a consultation with one of Research Computing’s staff members to get personal, one-on-one assistance for your research computing and data storage needs. Consultations are available to any Northeastern student, faculty, or staff member. We can help you get up and running with Discovery, help optimize your code, help you with benchmarking, help install and use software packages, and detail data storage options.
Scheduled consultation hours are available most weekdays during normal business hours (9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Eastern Time). Note that we follow the Northeastern University holiday schedule, so consultations are not available on holidays or during breaks. All of our consultations are conducted as online meetings through the Teams app.
Courses
There are several use cases for teaching and learning with the cluster in a classroom. The cluster offers a command line and web interface, allowing access and instruction-level flexibility. Using the cluster gives you, and your students access to many popular scientific applications and allow you and your students to install other packages as needed. The easy-to-use Open OnDemand web portal also offers a built-in visual file explorer for viewing and transferring.
Storage
RC is responsible for procuring and maintaining several data storage options, including active and archive storage solutions. If you are affiliated with Northeastern, you can request one or more storage solutions to meet your needs. If you anticipate needing storage as part of a grant requirement, please schedule a storage consultation with an RC staff member to understand what storage options best meet your research needs.
Training
The Research Computing team provides free, online training sessions for Discovery users and Northeastern Students interested in learning more about Discovery. We have added a selection of our most-viewed training sessions for you to get started on the Discovery cluster.
How Can Research Computing Support You?
Accelerate your research at any stage by leveraging our online user guides, hands-on training sessions, and one-on-one guidance.
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