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National Institutes of Health (NIH) - National Heart Lung and Blood
Insitute (NHLBI) - Laboratory of Biophysical Chemistry - Computational Biophysics Section
The LoBoS Supercomputers are an implementation of
Beowulf-class supercomputing at the
Computational Biophysics Section run by
Bernard Brooks
at the NIH in Bethesda, Maryland. LoBoS, which stands for
Lots
of
Boxes
on
Shelves,
is an ensemble of PCs connected with high speed networks to achieve supercomputer performance at substantial savings. The strategy is to build a supercomputer using lots of commodity-priced processors in place of a few expensive "supercomputer" processors to achieve a reduction in the overall price of computation by a factor of 10 or more. The
current configuration allows
scientists within the
collaborating laboratories to study more complex biological systems using computational methods. The LoBoS business model is to purchase the fastest commodity processors available, use them for 18 to 24 months, and then migrate them to the desktop environment.
Cluster Version |
Designed and Built |
In Use |
To Desktop |
LoBoS 5 |
6/03-In Progress... |
Soon! |
N/A |
LoBoS 4 |
6/02-8/02 |
9/02-Present |
TBD |
LoBoS 3 |
5/00-9/00 |
11/00-7/02 |
7/02 |
LoBoS 2 |
7/98-8/98 |
10/98-1/01 |
5/01-6/01 |
LoBoS |
1/97-4/97 |
6/97-3/00 |
9/99-3/00 |
Designed by Alexey Rostapshov. Updated August 2003. Information and HTML pages provided by:
NIH Computational Biophysics Section
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