Description of supercomputers
The Institute of Integrative and Systems Biology has its own computer servers.
These computers are mainly dedicated to bioinformatics work which is particularly memory and time intensive.
For mpi or serie calculations that do not require more than 24 GB of memory per node
(8 cores) and 48 hours of computing time, it is suggested to use the resources of Compute Canada.
thoth
This server have 3 nodes composed of :
- 4 x 24 cores Intel Xeon-P8260 CPUs
- 2 x NVIDIA Quatro RTX6000 GPUs
- 1.5Tb de mémoire
For a total of 288 cores, 6 GPU’s and 4.5Tb of memory
thoth address is:
thoth.ibis.ulaval.ca
To connect to thoth, open a terminal window and enter the command:
ssh -Y your_login@thoth.ibis.ulaval.ca
manitou
It’s a computer in the series UV300 SGI and was commissioned in March
2016. He also has SMP architecture ccNUMA class with 128 processing cores and 2 terabytes
of RAM. The computer manitou is used primarily by two research teams. Users of other teams
also have access to this server with a lower priority.
manitou’s address is:
manitou.ibis.ulaval.ca
To connect to manitou, open a terminal window and enter the command:
ssh -Y your_login@manitou.ibis.ulaval.ca
Here is how the cores are used on manitou:
- 128 processing cores dedicated to computation
- 2 graphical processing units (GPU) NVIDIA 16G Tesla-P100