Resources

The Coordinated Laboratory for Computational Genomics consists of approximately 30 faculty, post-docs, staff, and students and occupies 3,000 sq. ft. in the Center for Bioinformatics (CBCB) housed in the Engineering Building on the University of Iowa main campus. This recently remodeled facility is wired for high-speed networking (10- and 100-megabit, and gigabit ethernet – hardwired and wireless – and ATM), and includes 5 dedicated Linux clusters, 126 computing systems, 178 CPUs, more than 300 Gigabytes of RAM, and 25 Terabytes of Disk space. The CLCG also has several years experience with utilizing videoconference technologies (Polycom, Centra, and VNC) to facilitate communication and collaboration among distributed research sites.

Computers

1. A dedicated compute server cluster of 18 Linux systems (36 CPUs) connected with a dedicated, switched, copper Gigabit Ethernet intranet. (18 Dual AMD MP-2400 (2.2 GHz, 2GB memory, 40GB disk each.
2. A second dedicated compute server cluster of 16 Linux systems (32 CPUs) connected with a dedicated, switched, fiber-optic Gigabit Ethernet intranet. (12 Dual Pentium III (500 MHz, 1GB memory, 9GB disk each), and 4 Dual Pentium III (500 MHz, 2GB memory, 9GB disk each)).
3. A third dedicated compute cluster of 9 Linux Systems (18 CPUs) connected with a dedicated 2.4 Gigabit multistage intranet. 8 Dual Pentium III (866 MHz, .5GB memory, 45GB disk each), and 1 Dual Pentium III (866 MHz, 1GB memory, 45GB disk each).
4. Five Apple XServes, providing access to ~22 TB of storage capacity housed in Apple XRaid storage modules.
5. A 35 TB robotic tape library for robust data management and archival.
6. Four dedicated, dual fiber channel, redundant disk storage systems (RAID). 412GB usable each.
7. Four Dual Pentium III (2.2GHz, 4 GB memory, 500GB disk each) compute, web, database, and file servers.
8. A collection of 4 development web and data-server systems.
9. In addition substantial computing infrastructure is currently in place for development and monitoring of production computing. This includes: (25) Pentium II/III/Athlon workstations running Linux, (31) laptop Linux systems;

Space

Office, and laboratory space is available for all Principal Investigators, co-investigators, post-docs, staff, and students. Convenient meeting space is also available. Offices are equipped with computers and printers. All computers are connected to a 100Mbit switched Ethernet backbone and most space is covered by 802.11a and b standard wireless Ethernet. All key personnel involved in this project have Linux and/or PC computers (desktop and portable) connected to the network. Many of the staff have high-speed connections at home as well.