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  • Computational transition in chemistry

    Our group started using the CHPC resources intensively almost three years ago. We were guided by the CHPC staff through their available resources for chemistry, as well as through some basic aspects of Gaussian, a major program used for molecular computations, and Schrödinger’s MacroModel for conformational analysis. We initially obtained a temporary allocation, which was…

  • Video processing on HPC

    Video processing on HPC

    Currently, all users of a special microscope that generates terabytes of data must use a Windows workstation for data processing. Bob adapted this PC workflow to Harvard’s HPC environment; this now provides flexibility & higher throughput for the lab’s image processing needs. “To help us start tackling this challenge, we greatly benefited from the help…

  • Modeling cloud systems

    “My research group recently became interested in using a program called VAPOR (www.vapor.ucar.edu) to help us easily and interactively visualize the results of large numerical simulations of cloud systems. We wanted to find a way to run VAPOR on one of our CHPC nodes and display the GUI remotely. That way we would need only…

  • HPC bioinformatics and transcriptomics

    “I am a sixth year graduate student in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology. I started a transcriptomics project with little experience in coding and no experience in high powered computing (HPC). Without Bob Freeman’s work through ACI-REF I do not think I would have been able to complete my bioinformatics project. I was…

  • Processing meteorological data

    “Through an expired grant NSF ATM- 1127692, Martin Cuma and Anita Orendt were instrumental in enabling me to analyze very large data sets of photographs of hydrometeors in free fall. The amount of data I was collecting became a processing nightmare, and Martin and Anita progressively helped me navigate my MATLAB analysis from my laptop…

  • Whole genome alignment

    Whole genome alignment is crucial to a large number of important applications in genomics, and is particularly important to our work on convergent evolution in birds. The current state of the art software for whole genome alignment is progressiveCactus, developed by the same group that built the UCSC genome browser. Getting this software to work…

  • Training and debugging

    We are very appreciative of the help offered by CHPC staff and facilities. Specifically, we receive a lot of help with respect to the software training, program debugging, and computational resources. Because of the help we have received, we are more familiar with how to perform calculations and get useful information using CHPC computational packages…