Beocat is the High-Performance Computing (HPC) cluster at Kansas State University, run by the Computer Science department. Beocat is available to any educational researcher in the state of Kansas (and their collaborators) without cost. Priority access is given to those researchers who have contributed resources.
Designed For
- Faculty
- Students
- Researchers
Features
- Beocat, as used by most people is a Beowulf cluster of Rocky Linux servers coordinated by the Slurm job submission and scheduling system.
- A small Openstack cloud-computing infrastructure.
- GUI based file management through OpenOnDemand.
- Web-based computational biology research through the use of Galaxy.
Requirements
Beocat resources are available to faculty and staff at K-State, Kansas higher educational institutions (subject to the KanShare MOU), and to US academic researchers that engage in collaborative research and development activities K-State researchers. Additional supporting documentation may be required before accessing Beocat's resources. Accounts are subject to annual renewal. Upon leaving K-State your account will be automatically de-activated, but you may apply for re-activation using the standard Beocat account request form.
Get Started
Beocat utilizes the K-State eID system to manage access. Before requesting a Beocat account, users who do not have an eID or are not affiliated with Kansas State University will need to request an eID: https://www.k-state.edu/it/resources/access-software/eid/. After obtaining your eID, please visit https://account.beocat.ksu.edu/ to request the creation of a Beocat account.
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