IFB Core Cluster
In parallel with a Cloud computing infrastructure, IFB provides a High Performance Computer (HPC) infrastructure.
Description
The IFB Core Cluster, in production since november 2018 consists of 4300 cores (hyper-threaded) and 400 TB of storage.
The access will be possible through different interfaces according to the users’ expertise: SSH, Galaxy and other web portals. Please note that currently access is possible via SSH, Galaxy and RStudio.
The software is mainly accessible via Conda environments and Singularity images.
Finally, shared reference databanks (GenBank, UniProt, UCSC, Ensembl, …) indexed in different formats (Blast, Bowtie, BWA, …) are available.
Services currently available
User documentation
https://ifb-elixirfr.gitlab.io/cluster/doc/
(Please don’t hesitate to suggest modifications)
SSH Access
An account to access the login node of the cluster is provided on demand. Once logged on, the user can submit jobs by using the scheduler system SLURM.
Training sessions
The IFB Core Cluster can host training sessions. We recommend you contact the team before the event for a better experience : contact-nncr-cluster@france-bioinformatique.fr
RStudio
if you want to use R directly in your browser : https://rstudio.cluster.france-bioinformatique.fr
Before use, you need to get an account (see Create new account )
Mutual help and community support
A place to ask for support on the cluster but above all to exchange, help each other and discuss bioinformatics (free registration) : https://community.cluster.france-bioinformatique.fr
Contribute
All users can participate in the cluster development effort via Git (install software, set up new services, improve documentation, etc.) : https://gitlab.com/ifb-elixirfr
Upcoming service offer / Prospects
Galaxy
The Core Cluster provides a generalist instance of the usegalaxy.org type and thematic bodies (Metabolic/Workflow4Metabolomics, Proteomics/Proteor, etc.). Please visit https://usegalaxy.fr
The availability or distribution of "in-house" tools will be possible, but there will be quality requirementsApplication hosting
The Core Cluster aims to host persistent web applications on demand.