Data Storage and Analysis available for HCBI users

The HCBI offers access to cloud data storage and virtual workstations for all users in the facility. 

Data Storage

The HCBI offers 5 shared storage servers that are available to all registered users (hcbishare 1-5) for data storage. The servers have a storage capacity nearly 3 Petabytes; however, this is not meant as a place to permanently archive your data. When any server approaches 80% full, we will delete files beginning with the oldest first. Only a single copy of your data is stored on these servers, and it is not backed up in multiple locations. As always, we recommend you keep multiple copies of your data.

When accessing the storage servers make sure you log into the correct server to access data from the instrument you used. The Instruments are distributed across the various servers as follows:

hcbishare1:Lightsheet, Axiozoom

hcbishare2: Axioscan #1, 2-photon, Spinning Disk, , MERSCOPE

hcbishare3: Axioscan #2, LSM 900 Live Cell, Bruker TruLive, 

hcbishare4: ELYRA, LSM880 FLIM

hcbishare5: LSM980+Airyscan, LSM900

Instructions on how to access these storage servers from a non hcbi computer can be found here

Virtual Workstations

There are 10 virtual workstations available for image analysis, hcbiview01-10. These workstations are directly connected to our shared servers, for easy data access.

Calanders for each computer can be found on SPINAL, and it is highly recomended you book time for them here to make sure you have access to the system and the software you may need for your analysis.

Various software is available on these workstations for your image analysis needs, but not every work station has a copy of every software.

hcbiview01 is reserved for Imaris users only.

hcbiview02-04 are reserved for Arivis users.

hcbiview05-8 are for Zen image analysis and open source programs such as Fiji/ImageJ and Cell Profiler

hcbiview9-10 are for Nikon elements and the Lux bundle for the Bruker Truelive.

Please use the appropriate workstation for the software you wish to use.

Instructions on how to gain access to these remote worksattions can be found here.

Work station specifications:

8 TB SSD storage (connected to a 3 PT storage server with high (25Gbit) network cable/cards)

396GB RAM

NVIDIA RTX 8000 GPU

Dual Intel Xeon 20 core processors