Eagle1

In-House Lab Resources and Hardware specs:

Molecular Laboratory:

Our lab occupies >1,400 sq. ft. of dedicated wet-, dry-, and molecular-laboratory space in the state-of-the-art Annenberg Science Complex building at the California State University, Los Angeles (CSULA). Available molecular biology equipment includes an Applied Biosystems Quant Studio 5 Real-time qPCR, Qubit 4.0 Fluorometer, Nanodrop ND-1000, and Bioanalyzer nucleic acid quantification stations, PCR workstations, benchtop centrifuge stations, automatic homogenizers (bead-beaters including a FastPrep-24™ Classic bead beating grinder and lysis system), sonication stations, Biological Clean Hoods, Milli-Q ultrapure water system, analytical scales, laboratory glassware, chemical storage space, deionized water systems, vacuum lines, autoclave access, chemical flow hoods, and -20°C and -80°C permanent cryo-storage storage space.

Computing: The Ramírez laboratory is fully equipped for large-scale bioinformatics work. Our in-lab computing hardware, Eagle1, is a High-Performance Computing (HPC) server, providing an environment optimized for high memory parallel operations: 1TB RAM, 128 CPUs, and 0.28 PB of long-term storage capacity. This specific computing setup, executing custom bioinformatics analysis pipelines, is routinely used to run large scale genomic analysis of complex environmental samples.

 Additionally, the Ramírez research group also has full access to the CSULA College of Natural and Social Sciences HPC cluster, Curie, providing CPU/GPU nodes and additional multi-TB space allocations, specifically:

·      Login node, 20 compute nodes, and a 0.75 PB BeeGFS parallel file system with a dedicated metadata server.   

·      Each compute node has two Intel Xeon Gold 6338 CPUs with 32 cores each (for a total of 64 cores) and 256 GB of RAM. 

·      The compute nodes are connected via Omni-Path, a high bandwidth (100 Gbps), low latency interconnect that is similar to InfiniBand. 

·      In addition, 8 of the compute nodes contain 4 NVIDIA A30 GPUs each.