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The Maryland Psychiatric Research Center (MPRC) of the University of Maryland, Baltimore, provides a high-performance computer cluster for the use of faculty and staff of the University of Maryland's School of Medicine. This cluster is a shared institutional resource funded by NIH Grant 1S10OD023696.
The MPRC cluster is intended for solving computationally challenging tasks of high-dimensional analysis of neuroimaging and genetic data. The cluster offers approximately 1,000 Intel 6150 processor cores and 26 Invidia Tesla P100 GPU cards. Each P100 card offers 16GB of on-board RAM and 5.3 teraFLOPS of double precision computational power.
The cluster consists of 27 nodes, each equipped with 394Gb of RAM. The nodes are interconnected with high-speed infiniband internal network and have about 300TB of high-speed storage designated as scratch space for the analyses.
The job scheduler, Torque from the Portable Batch System, mangages the nodes, which allows users to write batch script arrays that can run in parallel, thereby decreasing task completion time. Many tools, such as the SOLAR-Eclipse and the FSL feature FEAT, are already downloaded onto the cluster and ready for use. Access to the cluster is possible through the MPRC system and requires a secure account which can be requested using our Request Account page.
