Strasbourg University’s Computing Center Services Hardware Visualization Service offer

2 Unistra’s HPC Regional Center What Is An HPC Regional Center ?

 An set of hardware (super )  An set of software (leaning towards one or several scientific communities)  A team of people

 Comes from several entities (EPST, University, private sector), generally inside a specific « region »  Got is own financing  Supervised by a scientific committee

Goal Of The Structure :

Enable the scientific community with a scientific and technical environment destined to High Performance Computing

3 Unistra’s HPC Regional Center Expertise & Support

A team is at your disposal, for :

 Advice on use, process and work-flows  Expertise on applications  Expertise on software optimization (GPU, multi- cores, multi-machines)  Expertise in financing redactions

4 Unistra’s HPC Regional Center Accessing Computing Hours Several options  All year long : best effort  Annual call for offer (30M hours) → prioritary access + access to IPHC’s cloud/grid

5 Unistra’s HPC Regional Center Hardware

6 Unistra’s HPC Regional Center Mutualized Platform

 7000 cores, 1.3 Pb storage

 4 to 9 Gb /cores

 OS : Scientific Linux 7.2

 60 Nvidia GPU, from M2050 to K80 (soon : P100 & 1080)

7 Unistra’s HPC Regional Center Visualization Tools

8 Unistra’s HPC Regional Center Software

 open source for Linux that uses the NX technology protocol  secure remote sessions via ssh  packages can be run on Linux, OS X, or Windows.

9 Unistra’s HPC Regional Center X2GO : Configuration

Session > New Session

10 Unistra’s HPC Regional Center X2GO : Configuration

11 Unistra’s HPC Regional Center X2GO Demonstration

12 Unistra’s HPC Regional Center Future projects/ services

13 Unistra’s HPC Regional Center Perspectives : Data-Center

 Construction of a data-center (to be open in 2019)  The Computing center will move to the new DataCenter as soon as possible

14 Unistra’s HPC Regional Center Perspectives : Docker’s Exploration

 In order to always be more user-friendly, the Computing Center’s team will explore the docker system and its compatibility with our architecture  Singularity and similar tools will be beta tested by our application expert

15 Unistra’s HPC Regional Center Contact Us

 You can always Mail or Phone us directly

 Use the central support

● https://sos.unistra.fr/sos/pub/demande

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