Computational biology at UTMB encompasses a wide variety of disciplines. Many SCSB faculty are involved in computational biology as a component of their research. In addition to the SCSB Linux Cluster several laboratories maintain their own computational clusters. The SCSB provides a common ground for these laboratories to collaborate and share their expertise.
The SCSB provides state-of-the-art computational resources to researchers and to students who are in need of extreme computing power. The power house of the Core is a 30 processor Linux cluster, which provides parallel-processing capabilities with total of 84 billions floating point operations per second, 40 GB of distributed memory and 1.6 TB of total storage space. The cluster also provides centralized file-server capabilities as well as a tape library with 400 GB of storage space to archive and secure data. Peripheral devices include scanner, printers, color printers and tape drives. All computing resources are connected to the UTMB network, and thus other workstations within the campus can easily access the resources of the Core. An account request form is available online.