IFB Core Cluster

In parallel with a Cloud computing infrastructure, IFB provides a High Performance Computer (HPC) infrastructure.

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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 requirements

Application hosting

The Core Cluster aims to host persistent web applications on demand.