How to get access to resources?
Access to resources of the Fenix Infrastructure is free of charge and is provided through an excellence-based procedure, following the peer review principles which have been established by PRACE. The respective allocation processes for available resources are handled by the user communities, and resources are provided to European scientists from all scientific domains.
All details on access are published on the Fenix website: https://fenix-ri.eu/access
Which resources are available?
The Fenix website provides an overview of which resources are available at which of the current five hosting sites: https://fenix-ri.eu/infrastructure/resources/available-resources
The following different types of resources are offered (more info):
- Scalable Computing Services: Massively parallel HPC systems that are suitable for highly parallel brain simulations or for high-throughput data analysis tasks.
- Interactive Computing Services: Quick access to single compute servers to analyse and visualise data interactively, or to connect to running simulations, which are using the scalable compute services.
- Virtual Machine Services: Service for deploying virtual machines (VMs) in a stable and controlled environment that is, for example, suitable for deploying platform services like the HBP Collaboratory, image services or neuromorphic computing front-end services.
- Active Data Repositories: Site-local data repositories close to computational and/or visualization resources that are used for storing temporary replicas of data sets.
- Archival Data Repositories: Federated data storage, optimized for capacity, reliability and availability that is used for long-term storage of large data sets which cannot be easily regenerated. These data stores allow the sharing of data with other researchers inside and outside of HBP.
Note that some of the resources at CSCS will be decommissioned in March 2023.