Chris Berthiaume

As the lab's system administrator I'm responsible for making sure that our computer resources are running smoothly. We have three major pieces of computer equipment:

  • 32 node, 256 core compute cluster

  • 9 node visualization cluster connected to a tiled-display of 15 30" LCD screens

  • 5 node test compute cluster

The focus of my work is adminstering these clusters and porting needed biology applications to a parallel computing environment. This can either be a road well-travelled in the case of bioinformatics applications on a beowulf cluster, or less-travelled in the case of interactive data visualization on a tiled-display cluster.