Although today’s handy laptops perform many advanced and computationally intensive tasks, projects involving Big Data require significantly more resources. That need is satisfied by the HPC infrastructure, built from a network of computing clusters combined with immense memory. Access to these resources is remote, so job submission and data preview occurs through an interface on any local computing machine from any (allowed) geolocation. The HPC infrastructure is a shared community space, so you might want to familiarize yourself with the usage policy to avoid disrupting peer work.

Aleksandra Badaczewska
Alex is a Research Scientist IV at the Genome Informatics Facility at Iowa State University. Her academic background is in Chemistry and Biotechnology, with a Ph.D. in Computational Biology and broad experience in programming and designing web applications. She develops a comprehensive collection of highly customizable visualization solutions for Bioinformatics and supports software optimization for the USDA Geospatial analyses.