In-House Service: Scientific IT

The unit provides computing resources and technical support to CRG researchers. The unit has the necessary expertise to build high-performance computing systems in the coming years, taking the high compute and bandwidth capabilities required by researchers into account.

SIT delivers know-how and best practices to users for an optimal usage of computing resources, improving their applications performance and providing regular internal trainings.

The operations team administers more than 200 compute nodes ensuring the continuous availability. The current cluster installation has 3,000 cores interconnected with a 10Gbps Ethernet network.

The exponential growth in genomic data, particularly from Next-Gen Sequencing (NGS), demands high-performance and scalable storage infrastructures. The unit manages a heterogeneous disk-based storage that contains research data, currently 5 PB of usable storage in two datacentres.

The facility has become a key partner in many of the research projects carried out at the institute.

• Linux HPC cluster support
• Databases and servers’ administration
• Storage provisioning
• Cluster and Linux regular trainings

• Heterogeneous computing cluster with 3,000 cores and more than 200 compute nodes and servers. Last system upgraded based on 80 HP460c blades with two Intel E5-2680 – 2.70GHz processors and 128GB memory.
• Univa Grid Engine batch queuing system
• 5 PB of storage