Drexel University

Contact Info:

Geoffrey Mainland

3141 Chestnut St

Philadelphia, PA 19104

https://drexel.edu/core-facilities/facilities/research-computing/

Grants and Identifiers:

RRID: RRID:SCR_023420

Instrumentation:

Services Provided:

High Performance Computing

Relevant Publications:

1.) Lyu S, Zhang R, Peng K, Yu G, Zhang Z, Wang K, Bi X (2026 Mar 20). Brain age gap as biomarker linking cardiovascular diseases genetic susceptibility and causality. iScience, 29(3), 114987. . PMCID: 13080494.

Description:

The University Research Computing Facility (URCF), established in 2013, provides high-performance scientific computing and secure storage of protected health information to both the Drexel community and other universities in the Philadelphia area. The URCF’s 1,600 square-foot data center houses the Picotte cluster, which consists of Standard CPU Nodes, Large Memory Nodes, GPU Nodes and secure scratch and persistent storage.