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.
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User meeting Nov 26, 15:00-16:30
Our next user meeting will take place on November 26, 2026, 15:00-16:30. The meeting will be held in hybrid form, in the UBB seminar room 2.1 and via zoom. We will introduce recent changes, including the data connection to Austrian Scientific Computing (ASC) and a secure environment for running AI agents. We will briefly present the new Competence Centre Scientific Computing (CCS) of the University and discuss plans for upcoming migrations and extensions in 2027.
LiSC introduction webinar November 12, 2026, 15:00-16:30
Every month on the second Thursday afternoon 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. No registration is needed.
Join via Zoom linkNew compute node with two H200 GPUs
A new compute node with two NVIDIA H200 NVL GPUs (141GB VRAM per GPU) has been installed. The node also provides 128 CPU cores and 1.5 TB RAM.
LiSC computational resourcesAnnual report 2025
The LiSC annual report 2025 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 2026.
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