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 computer) 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 X2GO Software open source remote desktop software for Linux that uses the NX technology protocol secure remote sessions via ssh Client 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 ● Use key words “HPC” or “calcul scientifique” Thank You For Your Attention → most images from freepik.com.