The Megadata of Lake Mendota - Part 2: Souped Up Computing

This series is the story of a giant metagenome assembly from Wisconsin’s Lake Mendota. In this episode: a look at the supercomputing that stitches together large datasets with the assembler program MetaHipMer2.

Oak Ridge National Lab is home to two supercomputers — Summit and Frontier — that process terabytes of data with MetaHipMer2. And the National Energy Research Scientific Computing (NERSC) has another supercomputer, Perlmutter that works at large scale. But nearby the JGI, a cluster called Dori is also capable of running smaller assemblies — so we head there for a sense of what this supercomputing looks like.

Links from this episode:

• Submit your own proposal to work with the JGI
• Find all episode transcripts on our website
• Robert Riley at the 2016 DOE JGI Genomics of Energy & Environment Meeting
• MetaHipMer
• The ExaBiome Project
• Our contact info:
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  • Email: jgi-comms at lbl dot gov