Bridges Approach

Interactivity

Unlike traditional HPC systems, Bridges enables you to work interactively as you would on your laptop.

Virtual Machines

Virtualization provides a dedicated space for interactivity and allows you to customize your software and environments.

Gateways

Gateways allow you to launch jobs, orchestrate complex workflows and manage data from your browsers.

Databases

Bridges’ dedicated database nodes power persistent relational and NoSQL databases so they are always available to you.

Spark/Hadoop

Unlike traditional supercomputers, Bridges supports Hadoop and Spark, modern tools that enable processing of large data sets in distributed computing environments

Web Servers

Web Server Nodes host gateways to community applications and provide access to community datasets..

GPUs

Graphical Processing Units accelerate a wide range of application.

Extreme Memory

Bridges’ very large shared memory is excellent for memory-intensive applications such as machine learning, graph analytics, genome sequence assembly and in-memory databases.

Software

A robust collection of applications and tools allows you to focus on analysis instead of coding.

Data Collections

Your research is supported by rapid access to both public data collections and those you host on Bridges for the use of your project or collaboration.

PSC’s experts can optimize the transfer of your large data sets to Bridges’ available Petabytes of storage at no charge.

User Support

Through PSC’s own consulting staff and the XSEDE ECSS program, experts with mastery in a variety of HPC areas stand ready to help you advance your research.