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April 2026

Minerva/HPC Spring Training 2026: 

NOVEMBER 2025 RESEARCH ALERT

Please Note the Following from the Grants and Contracts Office (GCO) Concerning Unauthorized Sharing and Access of Incoming Data with Others and Additional Compliance with Your Agreement for Data Access:

• The following applies to Principal Investigators (PIs) whose research involves accessing data from an external entity.
• Unless explicitly stated otherwise, data providers and repositories restrict data access to the individuals listed in the agreement for data access (Agreement). Your access to data does not automatically grant permission to share it with others in your lab.
• Any individual who needs access must be explicitly listed as a recipient in the agreement either by name or by inclusion in an authorized personnel category (e.g., recipient’s faculty, employees, fellows, students, and agents (“Recipient Personnel”)). It is a serious violation with potential financial and legal consequences if you share data with individuals who are not authorized. To add ISMMS individuals, follow the steps in accordance with the requirements of the data repository and the terms of your Agreement.
• The PI is responsible for ensuring that all individuals with access to the data are aware of the Agreement terms, especially any restrictions on further data access and sharing.
• External collaborators need to request access to the data repository through their own institution. The external collaborator within their institution needs to establish the Agreement.
• If you have a multiple research appointment, the data access is for you at ISMMS only. Do not send the data to your other institution or store it on their servers.
• Likewise, do not send data to a personal email account or device.
• In addition to restrictions on data sharing and access, you must ensure compliance with all other terms of the Agreement, especially those related to end of usage data destruction or return. Failure to comply may constitute a serious violation.

Minerva High Performance Computing 2025 Charge Rate

The 2025 charge rate for the Minerva High Performance Computing (HPC) service is now $155/TiB/year, effective on September 1, 2025. The new rate will be reflected in the December quarterly charges. For questions, please reach out to ranjini.kottaiyan@mssm.edu.

July 2025 – National Institutes of Health (NIH) S10 Instrumentation Grant Award

Dean Patricia Kovatch, head of Scientific Computing and Data at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, was awarded $2M from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) as part of an S10 Instrumentation Grant (for advanced instrumentation) to provide state-of-the-art GPU capability and capacity.

These funds will support the creation of 48 NVIDIA B200 GPUs in 6 x DGX compute nodes, with the following specifications:

• 8x NVLinked B200 GPUs per node, 192 GB of memory per GPU, for a total of 48 xB200 GPUs and 9 TB of memory available on B200.
• 112 Intel Xeon Platinum 8570 2.1GHz cores, 2 TB memory, 25 TB high-speed NVME local storage per node for a total of 672 cores and 12 terabytes of memory on servers.
• B200 introduced new format FP4 (floating point 4-bit) capability, enabling the Minerva computing infrastructure to provide nearly an exaflop with FP4 for AI inference as shown in the NVIDIA B200 DGX datasheet.

This award was only possible with the support of the many researchers at Mount Sinai, and Icahn School of Medicine leadership.