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Announcing the Upcoming Retirements of Julia Harrison and Anita M. Orendt
Julia Harrison
Julia Harrison

After nearly four decades of dedicated service at the University of Utah, Julia Harrison is retiring as the Operations Director of the Center for High Performance Computing.

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Anita M. Orendt
Anita M. Orendt

Anita M. Orendt is a dedicated educator and researcher with a rich background in physical chemistry. Anita has made significant contributions to the academic community at the University of Utah.

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Upcoming Events:

CHPC PE DOWNTIME: Partial Protected Environment Downtime  -- Oct 24-25, 2023

Posted October 18th, 2023


CHPC INFORMATION: MATLAB and Ansys updates

Posted September 22, 2023


CHPC SECURITY REMINDER

Posted September 8th, 2023

CHPC is reaching out to remind our users of their responsibility to understand what the software being used is doing, especially software that you download, install, or compile yourself. Read More...

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Comparative genomics and signatures of social behavior in bees

Genomic Insights Through Computation

By Karen Kapheim

 Kapheim Lab, Utah State University

The primary focus of research in the Kapheim Lab is understanding how social behavior evolves in bees. We take an integrative approach to finding answers to this question, and in doing so merge ecology, behavior, neuroscience, comparative genomics, and molecular biology. We conduct experiments in the field with live bees, process these in our molecular biology lab, and then analyze the sequence data using the CHPC. Examples of on-going projects include using metabarcoding to characterize the role of the microbiome in social behavior and health of bees. We have sequenced a portion of the bacterial 16s rRNA gene in DNA extracted from the guts of bees during various life stages. We are processing these sequences on the CHPC. As a side project, we are also using similar computational methods to characterize the metabarcodes sequenced from the guts of carrion flies to characterize the mammal community on a tropical island where we work. Other projects involve comparative genomics of bee genomes to look for signatures of evolutionary transitions between solitary and social lifestyles. We are also using the CHPC to analyze microRNA expression differences among bees that vary in social behavior, and in response to hormone treatments. In each of these projects, the CHPC staff and resources have been extremely valuable, as genomic data is particularly large and analyses would not be possible on desktop computers.

System Status

General Environment

last update: 2024-11-06 16:31:02
General Nodes
system cores % util.
kingspeak 936/972 96.3%
notchpeak 3073/3212 95.67%
lonepeak 1530/1932 79.19%
Owner/Restricted Nodes
system cores % util.
ash Status Unavailable
notchpeak 15112/22068 68.48%
kingspeak 2748/5244 52.4%
lonepeak 36/416 8.65%

Protected Environment

last update: 2024-11-06 16:30:03
General Nodes
system cores % util.
redwood 258/628 41.08%
Owner/Restricted Nodes
system cores % util.
redwood 1064/6472 16.44%


Cluster Utilization

Last Updated: 11/4/24