ABOUT THE MARTINOS CENTER IT INFRASTRUCTURE
The Center’s IT infrastructure consists of over 400 CentOS Linux workstations
and 150
Windows and Macintosh desktops in offices and labs owned by individual research
groups. There is a server farm with over 90 Linux servers that handles central
storage, email, web, print, as well as specialized processing for specific
research groups. The overall storage capacity of the center, including disks in
local workstations and central storage, exceeds 3 petabytes.
The Center has a 90-node computing cluster for batch analysis jobs. Each node
consists of two Quad Core Xeon E5472 3.0 GHz CPUs with 32GB of RAM, which
together equal a total of 1024 compute cores available for batch jobs.
The IT facilities are supported by a small IT staff comprising one full-time
PhD-level manager, who directs three full-time system administrators and a
part-time support technician. The Center also has three full-time programmers
who support in-house-developed software for data analysis and management.
Available commercial software includes AVS (Advanced Visual Systems, Waltham,
MA), MATLAB (The MathWorks, Natick, MA) and MEDx (Sensor Systems, Sterling, VA)
for general-purpose computation, simulation and image analysis; and XWIN-NMR
(Bruker BioSpin), Origin (OriginLab Corp., Northampton, MA), Nuts (Acorn NMR,
Livermore, CA) for analysis of NMR spectra and the Siemens IDEA development
environment for pulse sequences and image reconstruction software (Siemens,
Erlangen, Germany). A substantial level of internal software development for
image and data analysis is ongoing, using LAMP, C, C++, Java, FORTRAN, Ruby,
Python, Perl and TCL/TK.
A few examples of specialized servers owned by different research groups
at the center we manage:
- NVIDIA DGX Station (20 cores, 246GB, 4x Tesla V100 GPUs)
- Dell PowerEdge C4140 (10 cores, 768GB, 4x Tesla V100 GPUs)
- Dell PowerEdge R730 (40 cores, 1.5TB, Tesla P100)
- Exxact TensorEX TS4-672702 (32 cores, 1.5TB, 10x RTX 6000 GPUs)
(See also the Martinos Center Facilities page)
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