The "PAUP running - Do not touch!!!" sign should look familiar to anyone who's done phylogenetic analyses over the past two decades. Fortunately, the days of these signs - and the inevitable lab drama that results - are quickly becoming a thing of the past. As access to high-performance computing (HPC) expands, most modern phylogenetic analyses are being conducted remotely on shared community- or campus-wide resources. Even as access to these resources expands, however, expertise in utilizing them to their full potential remains limited. For this reason, I'm excited to spread the news about The National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis's (
NIMBioS) new workshop titled “Fast, Free Phylogenies: HPC for Phylogenetics Tutorial.” This workshop, which takes place this October in Knoxville, TN, will bring together some of the most knowledgeable experts on HPC for phylogenetics with the goal of teaching others how best to use resources like TeraGrid, CIPRES, iPlant, university clusters, and other free HPC resources. More details are available at the tutorials
webpage. Tuition is covered by NIMBioS, but enrollment is limited.
The "PAUP running - Do not touch!!!" sign should look familiar to anyone who's done phylogenetic analyses over the past two decades. Fortunately, the days of these signs - and the inevitable lab drama that results - are quickly becoming a thing of the past. As access to high-performance computing (HPC) expands, most modern phylogenetic analyses are being conducted remotely on shared community- or campus-wide resources. Even as access to these resources expands, however, expertise in utilizing them to their full potential remains limited. For this reason, I'm excited to spread the news about The National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis's (NIMBioS) new workshop titled “Fast, Free Phylogenies: HPC for Phylogenetics Tutorial.” This workshop, which takes place this October in Knoxville, TN, will bring together some of the most knowledgeable experts on HPC for phylogenetics with the goal of teaching others how best to use resources like TeraGrid, CIPRES, iPlant, university clusters, and other free HPC resources. More details are available at the tutorials webpage. Tuition is covered by NIMBioS, but enrollment is limited.
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Sign in nowAs for courses, NIMBios had one on HPC last year that was more focused on the admin end. NESCent put out a call for course suggestions a few months ago -- maybe you could get them to sponsor one?
Anyway, I'm shopping around for a couple of more processors and boxes. Anyone have any advice? I didn't want to mess around with putting together hardware previously (except HD), but I think I'm open to the idea.
I find that a machine with around 75% of the speed of the fastest configuration available is generally about 50% of the price, or attractive to my cheap tendencies.
P.S. This is what I have in mind, but updated to Summer 2010.
As Brian mentioned, the deadline for this year's call just passed, but we will issue another call next spring. We will be posting announcements about this on our website, via evoldir, and other places. If you have specific questions, please feel free to contact me directly (jory@nescent.org).