Audience

Find your path into ecoPrimals — guides for faculty, students, builders, and compliance reviewers.

Different readers need different entry points. Pick the one that matches your role:

  • A PI or faculty member evaluating this for your lab? For Faculty and PIs — what ecoPrimals replaces, what it costs, how it compares to institutional HPC
  • A student or core facility tech who would set it up? For Students and Core Facilities — installation walkthrough, 16S pipeline example, GPU discovery
  • A hardware enthusiast or gamer curious about scientific computing? For Hardware Builders and Hobbyists — consumer GPU science, Games@Home, build-your-own
  • A compliance officer or IRB reviewer evaluating security? For Compliance and Institutional Review — FDA, ISO, HIPAA, GDPR mapping
  • A company or institution evaluating this for deployment? For Companies and Institutions — AGPL-3.0 implications, proprietary stack replacement, consulting model, regulated environment deployment
  • An evaluator comparing capabilities to existing platforms? Capability Parity Brief — domain-by-domain comparison against established tools

Deep dive: Faculty Spring Profiles — 9 professors mapped to springs, 60+ candidate papers, reproduction status, and BarraCuda GPU primitive coverage.

Not sure? Start with the Glossary for terminology, or the Lab for live evidence.