Computing

At hardware level, the computing part of MUST is currently provided by a set of 205 servers supplying around 75000 HEPSPEC06 (57 TFlops) and allowing to run more than 6100 simultaneous computing tasks (jobs), each of them being able to use at least 2 GB of memory.

Each of these computing servers is connected to 2 separate networks through 1Gb/s interfaces, in order to separate the flow induced by communication between computing servers, from the flow generated by access to data.

At software level, the CentOS Linux 7.7 operating system is installed on all MUST elements. Ressources are also accessible through grid protocols using UMD-4 middleware.

A HPC-compatible platform

All of the computing servers of the MUST platform allow HPC (High Performance Computing) via the execution of parallel computations based on the MPI communication standard.

A platform including GPU cards

Nine computing servers include NVIDIA Tesla K80, Tesla V100, Quadro P6000, Tesla T4 and Ampere A100 GPU cards. They allow, among other things, to perform vector-type calculations, deep learning and image processing.