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BDI High Performance Workstation

The Digital Scholarship Lab has a High Performance Workstation available for student projects and experimentation. This resource is not part of the Brandeis High Performance Computing Cluster.

BDI's High Performance Workstation has an Intel(R) Xeon w7, 256 GB RAM, 196 VRAM, +5 TB Drive RTX 6000. It has both Linux and Windows operating systems and can be accessed in the DS Lab, or via Teamviewer.

If you require a Linux operating system but don't need this level of hardware, please reach out to makerlab@brandeis.edu. We can help you build a bootable drive.

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High Performance Workstation Access

If you would like to use the High Perfomance Workstation for your project, please complete the following sequence of steps:

Complete a DS Lab access training. Regular trainings are advertised on the Brandeis Library Workshop calendar. If you don't see any options that work for your schedule, please email makerlab@brandeis.edu.
Sign up for a TeamViewer training. This training will happen via Zoom.
Sign up for an appointment to set up your access schedule.

High Performance Workstation Project Help

If you have questions about whether this workstation is appropriate for your project, or you are interested in learning more about LLMs, image recognition, and other applications, please reach out to Tim Hebert. Natalie Susmann can help with big-data GIS, and photogrammetry projects, and Humanities and Social Sciences questions.

Current Student Projects

Lillian Yin '26, Business and Economics major

Lillian is using simulation to analyze the effect of algorithmic traders on market microstructure in equity markets; requiring high-performance computing to train agents in deep learning models on L2 historical data to validate simulation results and assess whether they hold in real markets.