Computing resources at the Auckland Bioengineering Institute

Computing and Information Technology facilities are central to the research activities of the Auckland Bioengineering Institute.

Institute members use a diverse range of computing facilities, which are often tailored to specific projects or applications. Our IT team are responsible for approximately 200 PCs and servers running Linux, IBM AIX, Microsoft Windows, and Apple OS X.

The IT team supports a broad range of services, including system/software installations, file serving and networking infrastructure, web and database services, and hardware troubleshooting and maintenance.

The institute provides the following computation facilities:

The institute enjoys access to the BestGRID computational resources over the KAREN research network.

• BestGRID (www.bestgrid.org)
• Kiwi Advanced Research and Education Network (www.karen.net.nz)

• 24 processors, Intel Xeon 2.67GHz
• 128 GB of memory
• Operating System: Novell SLES 10

• 8 node Cluster
• Each node has 4 processors, IBM Power 5 1.9GHz and 16 GB of memory
• The nodes are interconnected with an Infiniband network
• Operating System: Novell SLES 10

6 TB of storage is provided via NFS filesystems using UoA ITS SAN infrastructure. Another 3 TB of storage is available from the BestGRID system.