Franklin¶

Franklin is a high performance computing (HPC) cluster for the College of Biological Sciences at UC Davis. Its primary use is for research in genetics, genomics, and proteomics, structural biology via cryogenic electron microscopy, computational neuroscience, and generally, the computional biology workflows related to those fields. Franklin currently consists of 6 AMD CPU nodes each with 128 physical and 256 logical cores and 1TB of RAM, 5 GPU nodes with a total of 40 Nvidia RTX A4000, RTX A5000, and RTX 2080 TI GPUs, and a collection of ZFS file servers providing over 2PB of storage.

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Administration¶

Franklin is maintained by the HPC Core Facility. Software installation and support requests should be directed to hpc-help@ucdavis.edu.

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Using This Documentation¶

Before contacting HPCCF support, first try searching this documentation. This site provides information on accessing and interacting with the cluster, an overview of available software ecosystems, and tutorials for commonly used software and access patterns. It is split into a Users section for end-users and an Admin section with information relevant to system administators. This documentation is being actively expanded as Franklin's software and userbase grows.

This site is written in markdown using MkDocs with the Material for MkDocs theme. If you would like to contribute, you may fork our repo and submit a pull request .