Building a Computer Cluster for Bioinformatics and Biomedical Research from Scratch to Production

To build a computer cluster for bioinformatics and biomedical research is a very complex task. Such cluster has to seamlessly combine different types of the software stack that is used for computations and it should provide the easiest way for organizing complex workflows for scientific research. This work present one of the possible architecture for a such system and a cluster software stack which could be used to build and operate it using a computer cluster of the Institute of Translational Medicine from Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University as an example.