Welcome to the Frederick Research Computing Environment (FRCE). Our facilities and team support and advance the scientific mission of the NCI and its cohorts by providing state of the art batch and parallel compute facilities operated by the FNLCR. Through the use of NCIF and FNLCR IT aggregated resources, we provide a special emphasis in Frederick on supporting customized large data and compute requirements and are part of the overall NCI special computing strategy. FRCE provides high-performance computing for numerous simultaneous jobs in such areas as genomic and proteomic workflows, structural biology, including cryoem microscopy and high-resolution imaging, molecular characterization, computational chemistry, sequencing, and bio- and nano-informatics. FRCE also supports custom scientific workflows with fast storage and pre-processing capabilities. As part of its mission, FRCE regularly explores and evaluates emerging technologies and their impact on scientific workflows and high-performance computing needs to ensure the environment remains a leading-edge solution for scientific computing, while also deploying, adapting, and maintaining the existing next-generation technologies to provide a responsive, full-scale infrastructure for technical solutions to scientific research.

Pages listing the current hardware installed on the FRCE cluster and a visual diagram of the architecture of the cluster and associated systems are available.

The FRCE administrators can be reached through email or through a Service Now ticket.