Assistance can be provided to choose an appropriate platform for research projects, improve the workflows, and adapt them to new challenges, regardless of where these computations are being run – on personal laptops, terminal servers or the HPC cluster.

Read up on the scientific computing services to find out how to improve scientific computing workflows with iDiv’s support!

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Christian Krause
Technical Employee (HPC Cluster)
Phone: +49 341 9733144
Email: christian.krause@idiv.de

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Platforms and Resources Resources Scientific Computing as a Service Seminars Sessions

Platforms and Resources

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RStudio Servers

The RStudio servers provide access to the RStudio Web IDE (Integrated Development Environment). No installation is required, and the servers can be accessed from anywhere in the world. This platform is suitable for interactive work and medium-sized computations.

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Terminal Servers

The MS Windows Terminal Servers provide access to applications that run only on Windows, e.g. ArcGIS. Login is possible via RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol). This platform is suitable for interactive work and medium-sized computations.

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High-Performance Computing Cluster

The High-Performance Computing (HPC) cluster provides access to virtually all Linux software. High volumes of jobs can be submitted to the cluster. The cluster scheduler automatically assigns resources to these jobs and processes them over time – no interaction is required. This platform allows for the highest degree of automation and is suitable for the largest computations in processing power, memory, disk storage and time.

Resources

RStudio Servers Terminal Servers HPC Cluster
processors ~ 24 ~ 50 ~ 2,300
memory ~ 280GB ~ 600GB ~ 27TB
disk storage ~ 5TB ~ 35TB ~ 2.5 Petabyte

SCaaS – Scientific Computing as a Service

The beginner-friendly scientific computing services can be used, even without knowledge of scientific computing. As ready-to-use data analysis tools are developed, a smooth introduction to scientific computing practices will be provided. During the transition to full autonomy, the scientific computing resources can already be leveraged.

Service Steps

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1) Consultation

  • Requirement analysis
  • Sketching workflows
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2) Development

  • Developing tools
  • Implementing workflows
  • Integrating data management
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3) Maintenance

  • Providing an issue tracker for ongoing development
  • Teaching how to maintain and adapt the tools

Seminars

The basics of scientific computing are taught in seminars. The acquired knowledge can be advanced as part of the hands-on sessions (see below).

Topics

Possible topics include but are not restricted to:

  • Introduction to High-Performance Computing
    What is high-performance computing?
  • Version Control and Collaboration with git
    How to manage source code, scripts and papers with the version control system git and how to orchestrate collaboration beyond using comments in MS Word.
  • Linux, the Command Line and Shell Scripting
    How to use Linux via its flexible and powerful user interface, the command line.
  • Reproducible Research
    How to create workflows with baked-in reproducibility.

Sessions

Hands-on sessions are offered to deal with specific topics in depth. The sessions are ideally suited to find solutions to particular problems or to gain knowledge in a specific area of scientific computing.

Topics

Possible session topics include but are not limited to:

  • Workflow management
    Pipelines
    Portability
    Automatic result validation / verification
    Reproducible research
  • Data management
    Acquisition
    Archival
  • Project administration
    Git
    Testing
  • Performance analysis
    Monitoring
    Debugging
  • Software design and development
    Optimisation
    Parallelisation