🚨 🚨 A progressive migration of BiRD users to the regional mesocentre GLiCID, is currently underway. 🚨 🚨

⚠️⚠️ We expect to close access to the BiRD cluster before the summer.

📌📌 Please note: You have to TRANSFER MANUALLY ALL YOUR DATA to GLiCIDD

If you require assistance, please complete the following questionnaire

If you have any questions or comments about this procedure (quotas, permissions, etc.), please contact us at pf-bird@univ-nantes.fr.

GLiCID

The mission of GLiCID is to provide advanced shared computing resources for supercomputing and the exploitation of computationally-related research data.

The rationale behind this migration is the pooling of human and material resources on a regional scale, in collaboration with the Universities of Nantes, Angers, Le Mans and the Ecole Centrale de Nantes.

The pooling will facilitate the provision of access to :

• a substantial amount of CPU and GPU calculations for both sequential and parallel computing (16,300 cores of all types, 100TB of RAM, 80 GPUs).
• high-performance, volumetric data storage (1.5PB of fast storage and 4PB of CEPH warm storage).

The differences with the BiRD infrastructure services are as follows:

• change of scheduler: SGE -> SLURM for better management of computing resources
• access to higher performance computing nodes (latest generation CPUs): AMD Genoa and Intel Sapphire rappids
• access to GPU nodes (A100-80GB)
• access to BigMem nodes
• access to fast SSD storage

If you use BiRD resources, please don’t forget to acknwoledge the platform in yours publications. « We are most grateful to the Bioinformatics Core Facility BiRD, member of Biogenouest and Institut Français de Bioinformatique (IFB) (ANR-11-INBS-0013) for the use of their resources and their technical support » —-

Biosphere Project

BiRD participates to the IFB’s Biosphere project, which aims to propose a federation of CLOUDs on a national scale. This infrastructure offers a catalog of virtual machines , developed according to the expertise of the IFB platforms, accessible through a single portal with federated authentication (EduGAIN, Nuvla).

Applications Hosting

• Shiny Apps :
  • Mibiomics : An interactive web application for multi-omics data exploration and integration.
  • FADA : FaDA is volontarly a simple tool to allow a first glance of your data, highlighting significative differences, significant associations/correlations or identifiying potential outliers. Different type of data can be used such as gene expression or cytometry measures.
  • CytoFlower
  • Genie : Gene ExpressioN Exploration
• HLA : EasyMatch-R is a tool designed to find unrelated donors in silico.

Funding

The equipement of BiRD and GLiCID are funded by the PDL Region, the French government and Europe.

TRANSLAT (CPER 2014-2020)

GLiCID (CPER 2021-2027)