LINEBERGER BIOINFORMATICS CORE (LBC) Computational Infrastructure group has a developed an infrastructure that supports the information technology needs of various labs and facilities across the cancer center. The common infrastructure allows data from lab instruments to be shared across projects in a controlled and timely fashion.
This common infrastructure has created easy collaborations across internal organizations. In addition,
the shared resources greatly reduce the hardware costs of any individual project. The same infrastructure is used to support:
- UNC Connected Health for Applications & Interventions (CHAI) Core
- UNC Patient-Reported Outcomes (PRO) Core
- UNC Cancer Information & Population Health Resource (CIPHR) Core
- UNC Pathology Services Core (PSC) – formerly TPL
- UNC Tissue Procurement Facility (TPF)
- UNC BioSpecimen Processing (BSP) Facility
- Dozens of Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center Labs
- Sequencing Instruments
- Sequence Processing for Internal and Nationwide Projects
The University Cancer Research Fund (UCRF) has helped in building the common large scale computing cluster that includes 90+ physical servers, 4600 CPUs, 19.5 TB of RAM, and 4+ PB of storage on a NetApp enterprise storage system. The UCRF has also provided funds for the necessary automation servers, administrative servers, and the VMware and KVM virtual server cluster. The infrastructure runs a mixture of RHEL / Rocky Linux and Windows Servers to meet the needs of the Labs / Core / Facilities that use the infrastructure. While relatively large, the infrastructure is nimble enough to not only support the rapid changes in cancer research but also enable the innovations that make the rapid changes possible.
For more information about the LBC Infrastructure, visit the LBG Wiki.
Group Personnel
- Hao Zhou – Infrastructure Supervisor
- Brendan Sheridan – Senior Research Systems Administrator
- Justin Fousek – Research Systems Administrator