Welcome to LiSC - Life Science Compute Cluster
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.
News:
Webinar Mar 12, 15:00-16:30
Every month on the second Wednesday at 15:00-16:30 we give an introduction to LiSC and to using the Linux command line at LiSC. All users are welcome to join these webinars, however we primarily address the needs of new users.
Dates and linkFull maintenance Feb 28
For the integration of 5 PB new storage, we will need to reconfigure and extend the LiSC Infiniband fabric. All interactive services will shut down on Feb 28, 8-16. All running slurm jobs will suspend and continue after maintenance. Please consider this maintenance when you plan longer-running calculations.
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.
Get annual reportGPU upgrades
We have added three more GPU nodes. These nodes provide one or two A30 pairs, connected with NVLINKs. Each A30 pair offers performant GPU computing and 48GB GPU RAM.