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Arkansas Integrative Metabolic Research Center

The Arkansas Integrative Metabolic Research Center (AIMRC) is an NIH-designated Center of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE) established in April 2021 at the University of Arkansas with Phase I funding from NIGMS (P20GM139768).

Bioenergetics Core Equipment

    • Seahorse Pro Xfe96
    • Seahorse Xfe24
    • Seahorse Mini
    • BioTek Cell Imager
    • Oroboros O2k-FluoRespirometer
    • Spark Multimode Plate Reader
    • Optima™ MAX-XP Tabletop Ultracentrifuge

Data Science Core Equipment

    • Eighteen single A100 GPU dual CPU servers for DART.
    • Nineteen single V100 GPU dual CPU servers and about 400 non-GPU dual CPU servers.
    • Three Petabytes of DNN Lustre parallel storage, four PB of nearline Lustre and object storage, and InfiniBand and Ethernet networks to act as a single system.
    • 450 application packages installed from source or commercial sources, about 150 packages installed as Python or R modules, and hundreds of packages installed as RPMs (system packages) from CentOS, EPEL, and OpenHPC.
    • An OpenOnDemand web portal, Jupter Notebooks, RStudio, and other graphical interfaces in addition to command line batch computing.
    • Operating system: Ubuntu 20.04 + Lambda Stack
    • Software: TensorFlow, PyTorch, Caffe, Keras, CUDA, cuDNN