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Research Compute Bootstrap
Workstations into a research cluster. No cloud, no vendor.
Built from deploying a computational-biology cluster on Dell Precision towers, then written down so the next lab does not have to rediscover it.
- A primary node serving NFS
/home, JupyterHub, RStudio and auth; compute and auxiliary nodes mounting it. - No Slurm by default — under fifteen users, informal coordination plus JupyterHub is enough.
- Hard NFS mounts with explicit timeout tuning so failures are visible instead of silent.
- Tested in production by researchers running genomics, ML and Spark/Hail pipelines.