EMedLab

eMedLab is a British grid computing supercomputer (high-performance computing or HPC) consortium for genetic medical data.

History[edit]

Funding came from the MRC in 2014.

The project is based on the US integrated Rule-Oriented Data management System (iRODS). The bioinformatics infrastructure has been built to process huge amounts of gene sequence data. The site went live in April 2015, and has cost £8.9m.

Structure[edit]

The site operates with Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack (with hybrid Cinder) and IBM GPFS (Spectrum Scale) parallel file system, with 5.5PMb of storage. Connectivity comes from Ethernet, and 10Gps NICs

A previous similar site at UCL operated VMware.

It is hosted at the Jisc Shared Data Centre (at VIRTUS LONDON4), with 252 blade servers with 24 cores each, totalling 6048 cores. This data centre was opened by Infinity SDC in 2014. Jisc also run the UK's main internet network JANET, and the Jisc site was funded by HEFCE. Jisc also runs the Mimas (data centre) at the University of Manchester.

Partner organisations[edit]

Worldwide[edit]

ELIXIR (Europe-wide bioinformatics)
1000 Genomes Project (worldwide)
ENCODE (US)
Ensembl Genomes (Cambridgeshire)

United Kingdom[edit]

Farr Institute (at UCL)
Genomics England
UCLH Biomedical Research Centre

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Private sector[edit]

GSK
Aridhia (Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow)
DataDirect Networks (DDN)

References[edit]

↑ UCLH BRC

External links[edit]

eMedLab

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[1] UCLH BRC

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