Servers and storage

• You can also have a look at the CBiB Documentation - Quick Start Guide.
• To request the creation of an account on our cluster : account request form

STORAGE

• Storage for production on DELL ISILON, ~1 Tb usable composed of 6 H400 nodes and 4 A300 nodes
• Storage based on IBM Spectrum Scale for scratch (ex GPFS), ~300Tb usable with 2 IO nodes [Dell R730] + JBOD [Dell MD3460]
• Storage for production storage replication, GlusterFS, remote site, 400Tb
• Storage based on ZFS for backup, 50 Tb (mirrored on remote site)

COMPUTING

• Cluster Apollocortex
  Total of 9 compute nodes, 512 cores, 2.8 Tb RAM
  7 standard compute CPU nodes, Apollo 2000 Gen10+ (32 cores, 256 Gb RAM)
  1 "big memory" compute CPU node, Apollo 2000 Gen10+ (32 cores, 1 Tb RAM)
  1 compute GPU node DL 385 Gen11 (4 x NVIDIA H100 94 GB)
  2 login nodes, DL 385 Gen11 (24 cores, 256 Gb RAM)
• GPU server
  8 x NVIDIA TESLA T4 16GB GDDR6

VIRTUALIZATION

• Cluster Proxmox VE
  3 servers DELL PowerEdge R640 (2 CPU Xeon 4114, 20 cores, 256GB) + dedicated shared storage (20TB)

NETWORK

• Internet access 1 Gbits/s (shared), University of Bordeaux
• LAN Ethernet (administration), 10 Gbits/s

EXTERNAL COMPUTING RESOURCES

• Direction des systèmes d’information (DSI) de l'Université de Bordeaux (https://www.u-bordeaux.fr/universite/organisation-et-fonctionnement/direction-generale-des-services/direction-des-systemes-information)
• Institut Français de Bioinformatique (IFB) (http://www.france-bioinformatique.fr)

HOSTING INFRASTRUCTURE

• IT Room (28m²)
• Hot aisle containment
• Chiller + FreeCooling (~50% of the time)
• Heat exchangers air/water (water at 15°C / 20°C)
• UPS fault tolerance capacity of 40 KWatt
• Supervision of the IT room (temperature, humidity, water leakage, consumption by outlet, UPS, chiller, LCP)