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University of Saskatchewan
Bioinformatics Research Group

Computational Resources

Workstations

Room Principal
User
Machine
Name
Machine Type O/S Special Roles
S307 Pratheesh, UG quantum Mac mini (2025) Mac OS
guanine Mac mini (late 2024) Mac OS
Leila, PhD brassicaceae Mac mini (2023) Mac OS
Mehdi, PhD fabaceae Mac mini (2023) Mac OS
rosaceae Mac mini (2023) Mac OS
Thulani, PhD methionine Lenovo ThinkCenter P620 (2023) Linux
arginine Lenovo ThinkCenter P620 (2023) Linux
ge2p macbook MacBook (Early 2016) Mac OS On loan to Malcolm
lipman iMac (late 2015) Mac OS On loan to Leila
S423 Ian fullafl Mac Studio (2022) Mac OS
MacBook Pro Mac OS
Tony didymis MacBook Pro (2019) Mac OS
moreau MacBook Pro (2023) Mac OS
gnome Mac Studio (2022) Mac OS
S424 Lingling concerto MacBook Pro (2021) Mac OS
amborella Mac mini (2024) Mac OS
S426 Brennan, MSc thymine Mac mini (late 2020) Mac OS
McKayla, MSc tryptophan Mac mini (2019) Mac OS
Chengeng, PhD uracil Mac mini (2018) Mac OS
Malcolm, PhD adenine iMac (2020) Mac OS
needleman iMac (2017) Mac OS
smith out of service
John, MSc cytocine iMac (2021) Mac OS
William, MSc crick iMac (2020) Mac OS
ciliate out of service
wunsch out of service
watson out of service
linnaeus out of service
sanger out of service
waterman out of service
dayhoff out of service
mendel LINUX out of service

Servers

Machine Role Service/Resource Hardware Description OS
yeoman2 VM server
VMs for saphire, epiphany, GNAT, GreenSkEye, WiseFlu
Dell PowerEdge R450
32TB RAID,
dual 16-core CPU (Intel Xeon Silver 4314)
256GB RAM
Ubuntu LINUX, 22.04.5
eldorado file server,
compute server
/birl 20TB RAID,
dual 8-core CPU (Intel Xeon E5-2670),
384GB RAM
Ubuntu LINUX, 22.04.5
nugget file server,
compute server
/scratch Lenovo SR650v3
72TB RAID,
dual 15-core CPU (Intel Xeon Gold 6526Y),
2TB RAM,
2 x NVIDIA L40 (48GB) GPUs
Ubuntu LINUX, 22.04.5
lode file server,
compute server
/birl2 Dell PowerEdge R740
40TB RAID,
dual 18-core CPU (Intel Xeon Gold 5220),
1.5TB RAM,
NVIDIA TESLA V100S (32GB), 2 x NVIDIA A40 (48GB) GPUs
Ubuntu LINUX, 22.04.5
trove file server,
compute server
/scratch2 Dell PowerEdge R740
64TB RAID,
dual 28-core CPU (Intel Xeon Gold 6258R),
1.5TB RAM,
NVIDIA A30 (24GB), 2 x NVIDIA A40 (48GB) GPUs
Ubuntu LINUX, 22.04.5
saphire web server kinome array software virtual machine on yeoman2 Ubuntu LINUX
epiphany web server epitope array analysis software virtual machine on yeoman2 Ubuntu LINUX
GNAT web server Gene Neighbourhood Analysis Tool virtual machine on yeoman2 Ubuntu LINUX
GreenSkEye web server Constant Imaging System virtual machine on yeoman2 Ubuntu LINUX
WiseFlu web server Interactive Analysis and Visualization of H1N5 avian flu virtual machine on yeoman2 Ubuntu LINUX

Other

Machine Role Service/Resource Machine Type/Hardware Description O/S
binfo-nas1 NFS storage /binfo-nas1 54TB
binfo-nas4 NFS storage /binfo-nas4 209TB
binfo-nas5 backup storage 16x20TB = 320TB QNAPs
BirlLaptop lab travel and presentation laptop MacBook Air Mac OS