The Fender HPC cluster

The Fender High Performance Compute (HPC) cluster is part of the league of robots - a collection of HPC clusters, which are named after robots. Deployment and functional administration of all clusters is a joined effort of the Genomics Coordination Center (GCC) and the Center for Information Technology (CIT) from the University Medical Center and University of Groningen, in collaboration with and as part of several research projects including

• ELIXIR compute platform
• EXCELERATE
• Solve-RD - solving the unsolved rare diseases
• EJP RD - European Joint Programme on Rare Diseases
• CORBEL

See cluster for an overview of cluster components and features.

Quickstart for new users:

• To request access to Fender click here
• To login on Fender for Mac or Unix users click here
• To login on Fender for Windows users click here
• For a user tutorial for computing on Fender click here
• For additional questions contact the helpdesk