Section: New Software and Platforms

Platforms

Platform: computational resources

The computational resources of Caramba have increased significantly in 2018. On the one hand, the CPER «CyberEntreprises» (French Ministry of Research, Région Grand Est, Inria, CNRS) funded the acquisition of a 64-node, 2,048-core cluster called grvingt . This cluster is installed in the Inria facility. Other slightly older hardware (a medium-size cluster called grcinq from 2013, funded by ANR, and a special machine funded by the aforementioned CPER grant) was moved in the same location to form a coherent platform with about 3,000 cpu cores, 100 TB of storage, and specific machines for RAM-demanding computation. As a whole, this platform provides an excellent support for the computational part of the work done in Caramba. This platform is also embedded in the larger Grid'5000/Silecs platform (and accessible as a normal resource within this platform). Technical administration is done by the Grid'5000 staff.