Analyze and compute your large datasets

UCSF offers secure options for analyzing and computing large datasets. 

Services 

UCSF Wynton is a shared high-performance compute (HPC) cluster that is available to UCSF researchers for their data. It is funded and administered cooperatively by UCSF IT and key research groups and is available to all UCSF researchers for free.

UCSF Wynton:

  • Is UCSF's largest HPC cluster with ~15,000 CPU cores available, 6.5 petabytes of group storage
  • Provides support for graphical processing unit (GPU) computation
  • Has different profiles suited to various biomedical and health science computing needs
  • Has a friendly, large user community

The Wynton HPC environment is not certified for use with protected health information (PHI) unless you have a Wynton PHI account. Data containing PHI must not be transferred to, mounted on, or processed with any Wynton HPC cluster resources other than in the Wynton PHI environment.

UCSF's Research Analysis Environment (RAE) offers secure hosting and computing of sensitive data and comes in 2 tiers: RAE Free, RAE Premium. RAE Premium offer dedicated private environments with larger and increased performance storage. The RAE team can work with you to "right size" your workloads and will adjust compute and storage specifications when needed.

Directions

UCSF Wynton

  1. To create an account on the Wynton HPC Cluster, fill out UCSF Wynton Request Form.
  2. To apply for a new Wynton HPC account with PHI access, or to update an existing account for PHI access, please follow the instructions for requesting or updating an account. This will initiate an automated onboarding process to check that you meet the following prerequisites:
    1. Valid email address
    2. PI approval to work on Wynton PHI
    3. Attested to UCSF Statement of Responsibility

UCSF RAE

  1. To create a RAE account, complete the UCSF RAE request form - requires UCSF MyAccess account.
  2. Request a consultation by selecting the RAE Acct/User/Study Request Form or contacting the UCSF IT Service Desk at (415) 514-4100 to "right size" the RAE option for your storage and compute needs.

Support

UCSF Wynton

  • If you have questions which require Wynton staff assistance, email Wynton HPC Support at [email protected]
    • Slack workspace
      • ​#ucsf-wynton - a communal forum for Wynton HPC users to interact in real time. To join: (i) go to the signup page, and (ii) enter your UCSF email address. (*) If you don’t have one of the recognized email domains, or it, for other reasons, does not work, reach out to [email protected] to receive an invite to your preferred email address.
    • If you prefer virtual support, please visit Wynton Office Hours:
      • Online Office Hours every Tuesday at 11-noon (1 hour) - you can find the Zoom URL in the message-of-the-day (MOTD) that you get when you log into Wynton. Alternatively, see the Wynton-Announce ‘Wynton Office Hours’ email on 2021-01-25. 

UCSF RAE

  • Use the RAE Help System to generate a support ticket.
  • Join the UCTech Slack channel #ucsf-rae to meet a community of peers and find the latest information about weekly office hours.
  • RAE users also have access to step-by-step documentation in the RAE support training library within MyTransfer.