High Performance Compute (HPC)
Introduction OxCIN's OOD Compute Facilities
In addition to other Medical Sciences Division or wider-Oxford compute facilities, FMRIB hosts the OxCIN compute facilities, commonly known as OOD. Charges apply for this service - see our charges page for details.
OOD is a compute cluster formed from rack-mounted multi-core computers. To ensure efficient use of the hardware, tasks are distributed amongst these computers using queuing software in the most optimum manner, based on job characteristics (e.g. length, memory requirements, GPU (CUDA) needs, etc), with available time shared out amongst all users. This means you usually have to wait a while for your jobs to complete, but there is the potential to utilise significantly more compute resources than you would have available to you on a single computer such as your laptop or a desktop computer.
For interactive discovery tasks, OOD includes a web interface (using the Open On Demand software) at https://ood.fmrib.ox.ac.uk [Oxford Only] that allows users to launch Linux desktop environment, Jupyter Notebook, R Studio and Mathworks MATLAB sessions; all utilising the underlying compute cluster infrastructure with associated high-memory/core count and CUDA capable hardware.
Portions of this service were funded from Wellcome grants - when publishing work that used these facilities please acknowledge this funding as per our acknowledgment page.
For details on how to use this facility - see our OOD documentation and cluster job submission pages.