Reduced Time
342 days of processing time reduced to less than one day for non-linear warping
Accelerated Pipelines
Bioinformatics pipelines accelerated from weeks to hours
Image Processing
118,000 MRI images processed to detect cancer in less than 12 hours
Easy Access
Use Jupyter notebooks, R, and other analytical tools on the cluster through your web browser
Storage
Every user gets 3 storage locations: 20GB useful for scripts, 5TB for raw data, and 500TB for analysis.
Cheaha Supercomputer
UAB IT Research Computing maintains the Cheaha Supercomputer. Named after the Cheaha mountain, or Mount Cheaha, the highest natural point in Alabama. Cheaha is currently the largest and fastest supercomputer in the state of Alabama with a theoretical throughput of approximately 528 TFLOPS and consists of over 3500 CPU cores and 72 NVIDIA-P100 GPU’s. Cheaha is supported by a high-speed parallel filesystem that can store 6 PB of data (raw) interconnected by a high speed infiniband network.
Cheaha is a campus resource dedicated to enhancing research computing productivity at UAB. UAB researchers use Cheaha for wide variety of research such as genomics, neuro-imaging, machine learning, statistical genetics, cancer detection etc. Cheaha is available to members of the UAB community in need of increased computational capacity.
Reduced Time
342 days of processing time reduced to less than one day for non-linear warping
Accelerated Pipelines
Bioinformatics pipelines accelerated from weeks to hours
Image Processing
118,000 MRI images processed to detect cancer in less than 12 hours
Easy Access
Use Jupyter notebooks, R, and other analytical tools on the cluster through your web browser
Storage
Every user gets 3 storage locations: 20GB useful for scripts, 5TB for raw data, and 500TB for analysis.
Request an Account
These instructions are for researchers at UAB to request their own accounts on Cheaha using the Open OnDemand web portal.
Navigate to https://rc.uab.edu, authenticate with your UAB credentials. Once you submit your BlazerID and full name will already be filled in based on your authentication credentials. Please fill out a reason for needing a Cheaha account and press Create Account. Your account should be created and ready to use. Cheaha does not support use of uabmc emails and identities for login credentials. In order to use Cheaha, you will need either a Blazer ID or access through XIAS.
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