Peter Clapham

Cambridge, United Kingdom United Kingdom

Informatics Support (HPC) Group Leader at Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute

Education

The Wellcome Trust Sanger HPC team is responsible for both running and developing the scientific compute platforms that enables the ground breaking bio-informatics research that is taking place at Sanger today. The Sanger high performance computing center has housed LSF based clusters for more than 15 years. Today this infrastructure exceeds 20,000 cores, ~13PB Lustre, 16PB iRODS and remains a core component of our high throughput workflows. The recent development and installation of a private cloud, by our team, has added another 6000 CPU's, 1PB Ceph, S3 and cinder object storage. This implementation is based around 100GbE software defined infrastructure, RedHat Openstack and RedHat C...