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The Life Science Compute Cluster (LiSC) is a high-performance computing infrastructure for bioinformatics and computational life science. It is particularly friendly to life scientists who are not computing specialists. The cluster can be used for data analysis as well as method development and evaluation.

The Life Science Compute Cluster provides research data storage with and without daily backup, interactive nodes, CPU compute nodes, GPU compute nodes, high-memory compute nodes, job scheduling, helpdesk and many other services.


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Upgrades
More GPUs and up to 4TB RAM

New GPUs have been installed in LiSC compute nodes: 2 NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 (96 GB VRAM) and 18 NVIDIA L4 (25GB VRAM). Three compute nodes now provide 4 TB RAM.

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Upcoming changes

Substantial changes and improvements are planned for the period July 2025 until March 2026. These include storage and data management, computing, network access and user management. The LiSC documentation contains the up-to-date project plan and schedule.

Schedule of LiSC upgrades
Event
User meeting Apr 07, 14:00-15:30

In our first user meeting in 2025 we have presented an overview about programs and workflows for protein structure predictions at LiSC. We have explained recent changes and have discussed the plans for upcoming migrations and extensions in 2025.

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Report
Annual report 2024

The LiSC annual report 2024 has been published. It provides an overview about the services and the structure of LiSC, many statistics, new developments and achievements, as well as an outlook for 2025.

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