High performance computing (HPC)
DC, IGTP
Edifici Muntanya
Carretera de Can Ruti, Camí de les escoles, s/n
08916 Badalona, Barcelona, Spain
Services
Maintenance and support of the facility
- Ensuring the computing infrastructure is running 24/7
- Installation and management of the operating system (GNU/Linux) in all machines of the scientific computing area
- Installation and management of the cluster system for the scientific computing area
- Scientific software installation, maintenance and upgrade
- Management of the disk infrastructure of the scientific area
- Management of the network infrastructure of the scientific equipment
- Management of the backup infrastructure and data recovery strategy
Installation and management of diverse servers and services
(including but not limited to:)
- Private and public webservers and services management and installation
- Databases installation, management
- FTP(S) services
- Internal version control system (gitlab)
- Monitoring tools for performance tuning and alerts
- Queueing system (SGE)
System security (hardening, auditing, patching)
Advising bioinformaticians on computational tasks
- High performance computing
- Advise and help designing bioinformatics pipelines
- Advice on hardware purchasing for bioinformatics
Open Access to Bioinformatics Portal
Open-access to tools developed by the IGTP
Maplab Tools (Methylation plotter, Alu ontology, wanderer, Chainy, TrukeTCGA 450k trackhub)
Equipment
The DC has a rotation ventilation system with built-in redundancy, it also has a UPS able to maintain the electricity supply for all servers for several minutes (30+) and multiple power supply lines for each rack. As a protection against fire the CPD has an automatic trifluoromethane gas extinction system.
- Calculation cluster
16 calculation nodes giving a total of:
240 Nuclei
2 Tb RAM
Tb local storage (1Tb/node)
Made up of three different types of nodea:
HP DL160 G6 : 8 Nuclei (Xeon E5640) and 64 GB RAM (x8)
Fujitsu RX200 S7: 12 Nuclei (Xeon E5-2640) and 120 GB RAM (x3)
HP DL 360 G9: 28 Nuclei (Xeon E5-2680 v4) and 256 GB RAM (x5)
- Storage system
The main storage system is a high availabililty Isilon (Dell/EMC) Gen 6 with four H400 nodes and four A200 nodes.
Usable storage capacity 450Tb Snapshot system available to users
Sistema de snapshots accesibles para los usuarios
The system provides a unified file system for all users and available from the compute nodes or from workstations, simplifying work for researchers.
- Backup/Data Recovery
The backup/data-recovery system is made up of:
HPE 4048 library with two LTO-7 drives and capacity for 48 tapes (768 Tbs capacity)
Quantum Scalar i80 two drives LTO-5 with capacity for 50 tapes Both libraries are managed by Bacula backup software
The principle library (HPE 4048) is for security copies fo data for groups, virtual machines, data bases and data stored long-term.
The secondary library (Quantum Scalar i80) deals with redundant copies of virtual mahcines and work archived on LTO-5 tape.
The system makes daily backups of data and with a default 3 month data retention policy. The archive backup jobs are kept indefinitely.
- Network
The DC network is made up of 3 switches of 1Gb 3com 4210G and 3 switches of 10Gb HPE 5700. The switches and connections to the machines are configured for high availability. The Isilon storage system, main backup system and DL 360 compute nodes are connected through 10GB, the rest of the cluster uses 1Gb with aggregated interfaces.
Staff
