In-house Service: Scientific IT

The unit provides computing resources and technical support to CRG researchers. The unit has the necessary expertise to build high-performance computing systems in the coming years, taking the high compute and bandwidth capabilities required by researchers into account.

SIT delivers know-how and best practices to users for an optimal usage of computing resources, improving application performance and providing them with a regular training.

SIT as an operations team administers more than 200 compute nodes and servers. The unit manages a computing cluster with 3112 cores and interconnected with a 10Gb Ethernet network.

The exponential growth in genomic data, particularly from Next-Gen Sequencing (NGS), demands high-performance and scalable storage infrastructures. The unit manages heterogeneous disk-based storage that contains research data, currently 5 PB of usable storage in two different data centres.

The facility has become a key partner in many of the research projects carried out at the institute.

• Linux HPC cluster support
• Databases and servers’ administration
• Storage provisioning
• Cluster and Linux regular trainings