Technical specifications

Connections and communications

Two networks: 40-Gigabit Infiniband QDR via a Mellanox Switch for storage traffic and HP ProCurve switch for network traffic

High performance computing cluster

Four nodes, each node with two 8-core/16 thread, 2.4Ghz, 64 bit Intel® Xeon® E5-2660 processor with 20MB cache, 128GB of DDR3 ECC 1600 memory; 2x2TB SATA drives (7,200RPM)

Metadata server

2x2TB 3.5″ drives with 6GB/sec SATA, RAID 1 and 2x300GB SSD (RAID 1)

Object storage server

Lustre array: Two 12x4TB arrays of 12 3.5″ drives with 6GB/sec serial SATA channels, each OSS powered by a 6-core Intel Xeon 64-bit processor running at 20GHz with 32GB RAM.

96TB total, 64TB useable storage (redundancy for failure tolerance). Expandable 384TB total.

 

Data sources

Reference genome GRCh37 (HG19)

dbSNP, v137

Condel (SIFT and PolyPhen-2)

HPO

OMIM

Exome Variant server, with allelisms and allele frequencies

1000 Genomes, with allelisms and allele frequencies

Human Gene Mutation db (HGMD)

Phastcons 46, mammalian conservation

PhyloP

Input/output formats

Input formats: kGAP accepts Illumina FASTQ and VCF 4.1 files as inputs

Output formats: annotated VCF files

Electrical and operating requirements

Line voltage: 110V to 120V AC, 200-240V (single phase)

Frequency: 50Hz to 60Hz

Current: 30A, RoSH compliant

Connection: NEMA L5-30

Operating temperature: 50° to 95° F

UPS included

Maximum operating altitude: 10,000 feet

Power consumption: 2,800 VA (peak)

 

Size and weight

Height	49.2 Inches (1250 mm)
Width	30.7 Inches (780 mm)
Depth	47.6 Inches (1210 mm)
Weight	394 lbs (179 kg)

Noise generation and heat dissipation

Enclosure provides 28dB of acoustic noise reduction; system suitable for placing in working lab environment

7200w of active heat dissipation

Included in the package

knoSYS™100 hardware

Knome software: knoSOFT, kGAP

Operating system: Linux (CentOS 6.3)

Documentation (PDF)

Power cord