IT infrastructure for computing and hosting your scientific data
BiRD no longer directly operates computing resources, but remains part of GLiCID by pooling human and material resources.
How to acknowledge
⚠️ If you use GLiCID resources, don’t forget to to include this wording in your publications. ⚠️
This research used resources of the GLiCID Computing Facility (Ligerien Group for Intensive Distributed Computing, www.glicid.fr, Pays de la Loire, France. We are grateful to the Institut Français de Bioinformatique and the BiRD platform, financed under the Programme d’Investissements d’Avenir funded by the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (RENABI-IFB ANR-11-INBS-0013 and MUDIS4LS ANR-21-ESRE-0048), for providing help and/or computing and/or storage resources.
GLiCID
The mission of GLiCID is to provide advanced shared computing resources for supercomputing and the exploitation of computationally-related research data.
The idea behind Glicid is to bring together people and materials at a regional level. It is being done together with the Universities of Nantes, Angers, Le Mans and the Ecole Centrale de Nantes.
Pooling make it easier to provide 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).
GLiCID’s available resources currently consist of:
- Nodes from the first phase of the CPER (Nautilus machine: 5,376 AMD Genoa cores, 28TB of RAM, 16 A100-80GB GPUs, 8 A40 GPUs).
- CCIPL nodes (Waves: 6,712 cores, 66TB of RAM, 24 A100-40GB GPUs, 8 A40 GPUs, 18 T4 GPUs)
- Nodes from BiRD funded by MUDIS4LS :
- 16 computing nodes for Cloud infrastucture
- 16 new computing nodes for Cluster (Soon available)
The new CPER acquisition phase will be synchronized with the opening of the new data center (scheduled for spring 2026).
Community Forum
For any technical question or discussion, please visit GLiCID forum.
IFB NNCR
BiRD is part of the National Network of Computing Resources. The NNCR relies on a distributed infrastructure consisting of the IFB-core servers and nine high-performance computing platforms located in different regions. This network is open to the French and international research communities, both public and private, in the field of life sciences.
In parallel to the Cloud solution, the IFB offers HPC (High Performance Computer) Cluster type solutions, i.e. two types of infrastructure for storage, data calculation, training support and learning. This modular environment helps developers ensure best practices in software development and deployment and helps users find, access and deploy these resources.
National Clusters
- Clusters, offering a set of pre-installed tools directly usable on large volumes of processors and memory.
Biosphere Project
- The Cloud, a service offering pre-configured software environments, for which the user is the administrator, dedicated to specific bioinformatics analysis.
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 :
- ShinyMess : A Shiny interface to interpret HUMESS results.
- 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.
