Our group runs intensive computational analyses on Hive – the computer cluster of the Faculty of Natural Sciences. See some of our high-throughput computational analyses featured on its Research page. 

Hive2

Ready for the next level in computation? Hive2 is finally here! It was a long and difficult process with many obstacles and delays, in which Eyal was involved as the head of the Faculty’s HPC Committee. A lot of sweat, blood and tears went into this… But when we see now what we got from all that – it was worth it! And it well deserved a bottle of champagne…

Hive2 is a much improved system compared to Hive1, with all the newest state-of-the-art technology:

• The compute nodes (bees) have more than 5000 CPU cores
• The high-memorty compute nodes (queens) have up to 1.5TB RAM
• Hive2 has a high-performance, distributed, hybrid file system with a total volume of 1PB (1000TB). It’s hybrid in the sense that it consists both regular rotating disks (HDD) and flash disks (SSD), which have much higher performance.
• All components are connected by a fast Infiniband network (100MB/s). This allows for parallel computation (using MPI)
• A new backup server in a separate building is connected to Hive2 by optical cable, allowing for regular automatic backups (with snapshots) of chosen files/directories (you can’t backup the whole 1PB!)

Contact the Hive sysadmin if you want to use Hive2 at hpc@sci.haifa.ac.il

This is an old photo of Hive2 during it’s assebmly. It is now hosted in the university’s main server room.

Hive1

This was the fiirst comupute server of the Faculty of Natural Sciences that was set up in 2015 and served us well for many years. 

The first Dell rack and the subsequent HP expansion of the Hive cluster, with an in-row cooling system between them. A total of 1528 compute cores and 300TB of high-performance storage for intensive genome crunching!