Resources

BiRD has dedicated IT resources that represent:

•     992 threads
•     3.8 TB RAM
•     1 PB of storage

BiRD provides the community with a high-performance, equipped and secure IT infrastructure for computing and hosting your scientific data. The software environment is constantly evolving with the ongoing addition of new tools according to your requests.

The platform is equipped with:

• a computing cluster open to the scientific community
  • 14 nodes for a total of 832 threads and 3.8 TB RAM
  • an associated 400TB scratch storage and 600TB of securized storage
  • Request an account to access to the cluster
•     a CLOUD platform under OpenStack
  • 160 threads
  •  50 TB of storage

All of this equipment is located in the datacenter of the University of Nantes.