Welcome to the Structural Biology Technology Resource!

Explore the menus at the top to learn about our computer systems, HPC systems, storage/backup,  available software applications, and more.

General Overview

The Structural Biology computer network consists of over 360 computer systems throughout the department for individual, shared, and instrument use.  Computers are connected via gigabit Ethernet and run Linux, Mac OS X, or Windows.  Authentication to computers, storage, and other network resources is provided via a centralized LDAP directory.  Centralized storage is provided using a flexible and dynamically tiered Storage Area Network (SAN) architecture.  We have two computer labs consisting of 19 workstation-class Linux computers with access to many data processing and structure analysis programs for NMR spectroscopy, CryoEM, and X-ray crystallography. Scientific software environments and versioning are managed with environment modules.  These computers and software are available to all of the faculty and students in our department.

In addition to our general computing resources, we have an HPC core.  The HPC core consists of two beowulf clusters, two symmetric-multi-processor systems, and one dedicated GPU system.