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Opening of a Binderhub service
GRICAD offers a new notebook sharing service, Binderhub, accessible in beta version for the moment (no permanent data).
This is an online service for creating and sharing notebook environments, via a code repository (git, gitlab, etc.).
It allows demonstrations and collaborative work.
To access
the service.
Do not hesitate to contact us: sos-gricad@univ-grenoble-alpes.fr.
Archiving, identifying, describing and citing software with HAL and Software Heritage
21 april 2022 at 2pm
Videoconference
As part of the "For Reproducible Research" seminars, Gricad, MaiMoSiNE and SARI announce the next webinar.
It will be animated by Morane Gruenpeter, research engineer in the Software Heritage project,
specialist in metadata and will deal with the theme: Archiving, identifying, describing and citing software
with HAL and Software Heritage.
The conection information will be published later.
Practical information on
the site of the Grenoble Network for Reproducible Research
The electronic laboratory notebook, a transverse tool for reproducible research
5 may 2022 from 2 to 4 pm
Videoconference
As part of the "For Reproducible Research" seminars, Gricad, MaiMoSiNE and SARI offer you this
seminar on the electronic laboratory notebook.
This session continues the presentation of tools to facilitate the implementation of replicable research.
The eLabFTW laboratory notebook will be presented (Nicolas Carpi, Institut Curie) as well as its
implementation at UGA/GINP and its concrete use (Jean-Luc Parouty, SIMAP).
Presentations and videos are available on the website
Grenoble Network for Reproducible Research.
Feedback from the Data Grenoble Alpes Unit
Couperin's GTSO Data
regularly publishes feedback on the approaches implemented to support data management practices in institutions.
Now it's the turn of the Cellule Data Grenoble Alpes (CDGA) to present what has been implemented in Grenoble.
To find this interview with Violaine Louvet (GRICAD) and Lucie Albaret (BAPSO UGA) follow
this link.
Opening of the new UGA open science website
Open science aims to promote the unhindered dissemination of publications,
data and research codes in order to generalize access to knowledge.
The University of Grenoble Alpes is committed to this national and international sharing dynamic,
which today has major scientific, ethical and societal implications.
The new UGA Open Science website
is the single point of entry to all information, resources and services, events, training
and news on the subject. It will support Grenoble's scientific communities in implementing
open science for all research productions.
Whether you are looking for help to write a Data Management Plan (DMP), to deposit
a publication in HAL, to understand Plan S, to store or process sensitive data, this site
will answer your questions.
It was realized and will be animated by the members of the cells Data Grenoble Alpes and HAL UGA.
Il a été réalisé et sera animé par les membres des cellules Data Grenoble Alpes et HAL UGA.
Information and exchange day "Research data management in SHS" : videos and supports are online
This day dedicated to the management of research data in SHS in the context of open data
took place on November 23, 2021. It was organized by the Pacte laboratory in partnership
with the Cellule Data Grenoble Alpes and the Plateforme Universitaire des Données Grenoble Alpes.
All presentations can be viewed on the
UGA Podcast platform.
The program and presentations on
sciencesconf.org.
The news of 2021
GRICAD 2021 User's Day : videos and supports are online
The recordings of the presentations given during this annual meeting between
GRICAD and its users, are available for viewing
here.
As well as the presentations.
Reproducible Research Seminar Guix and Nix : online recording
The recording of the Guix and Nix seminar organized by Gricad, MaiMoSiNE and SARI is available here.
Impact Num: Environmental impacts of digital technology
A MOOC co-produced by the association Class'Code and INRIA to question the environmental
impacts of digital technology,
to learn to measure, decipher and act, to find one's place as a citizen in a digital world.
Françoise Berthoud, engineer at GRICAD and founder of GDS EcoInfo is co-author of the MOOC.
Find this
course online on the FUN platform (France Université Numérique).
JCAD 2021
December 13 to 15, 2021
Dijon
The GIS FRANCE GRILLES and GRID'5000, the Groupe Calcul, the GDR RSD, the
mesocentres and GENCI are organizing the JCAD 2021, Journées Calcul
Data: Scientific and technical meetings on computing and data.
These days are dedicated to both users and technical experts of
computing and data infrastructures and associated services.
Registration is open until December 1, 2021.
All the information is here.
47th ORAP Forum: "Vers un HPC frugal"
December 7 and 9, 2021
In remote mode
The ORganisation Associative du Parallélisme (ORAP) organizes once or twice a year
a "Forum" intended to allow the actors of high performance computing to meet
and to have a space of "technological watch" on this field.
Read more about this forum.
DATA-SHS Week
December 6 to 10, 2021
Amphi MSH-Alpes
The DATA-SHS week is a week of presentations and practical workshops on data processing
and analysis in the humanities and social sciences (SHS). It mobilizes the national network
of university data platforms (PUD) and takes place concurrently within these different platforms.
It is part of the activities of the IR Progedo (Research Infrastructure) which aims to promote
the use of quantitative data in France.
Participation is free, but registration is required before December 3, 2021.
All the information is here.
GRICAD 2021 User's Day
Le 30 november 2021
IMAG building auditorium
This day is the annual meeting place between the UAR GRICAD and the users of its services.
Through technical and scientific presentations, GRICAD communicates on the results and evolutions of its services and
the underlying infrastructures while the scientific presentations proposed by the users
offer an overview of the diversity of practices and issues addressed through the tools offered by the unit.
Participation is free, but registration is required.
Program and registration here.
Information and exchange day "Research data management in SHS"
Le 23 november 2021
IMAG building auditorium
This day is dedicated to the management of research data in SHS in the context of open data.
Organized by the Pacte laboratory in partnership with the Cellule Data Grenoble Alpes
and the Plateforme Universitaire des Données Grenoble Alpes, this event is open to all researchers,
teacher-researchers, doctoral students and engineers from the SHS laboratories of Grenoble.
Participation is free, but registration is mandatory.
Program and registration here.
Webinar "Services de sites de l'UGA"
See or review the presentation of SPRING, SUMMER, WINTER, FALL+TRICHOLOME and research infrastructure services (Computing, Big Data..) POD - Webinaire Services De Sites De L'Uga (univ-grenoble-alpes.fr)
Reproducible Research Seminar Guix and Nix
25 november 2021
IMAG building auditorium
As part of the seminars "Pour une Recherche Reproductible", Gricad,
MaiMoSiNE et SARI organizes a seminar on Guix and Nix on
November 25 from 1:30 to 5:00 pm at the IMAG building auditorium.
The seminar will be broadcast live and the broadcast link will be provided shortly.
Practical information on the site
Réseau Grenoblois autour de la Recherche Reproductible.
The RDA Pathways RDA
November 3, 4, 9, 10 and 11, 2021
The RDA France 2021 Days
October 11 to 15, 2021
Remote
The meeting is composed of four workshops and a plenary session: detailed program.
Silenus
Silenus, Gricad's new scratch storage infrastructure for HPC , is now operational. This infrastructure was acquired and implemented to meet the needs of very high performance scratch storage, especially on very intensive reading/writing operations. It is accessible from the Dahu cluster as a local storage system, like Bettik, under the /silenus tree. There is a /silenus/PROJECTS/ folder for each Perseus project. In each of these folders there is a folder common to all the members of the project as well as a folder for each member of the project. These folders automatically have the right rights in reading and writing to allow you to share your data with your collaborators within the same project and to keep your personal data confidential. Folders /silenus/chunks_* offer possibilities for optimizing the use of the platform in specific contexts. Silenus is a real scratch space on which data is automatically deleted after thirty days of inactivity. You will receive a warning message for each file that reaches or exceeds 20 days but it is strongly recommended to use Silenus only during the execution of the job with a copy of the data on this space just before or at the beginning of the job and a transfer to another more perennial storage space at the end or directly after the job.
CNRS Cristal
This year, the CNRS has decided to reward the work of the PLMteam with a crystal. The PLM (Platform in Line for Mathematics) is a national infrastructure distributed in mathematics laboratories, managed within the framework of the RT Mathrice of the CNRS, by a technical team distributed geographically. Its partnership with GRICAD, under the aegis of INSMI, will enable PLM to take the turn of cloud computing. Congratulations to Laurent Azema who joins the GRICAD system team and will lead the Datacentre Technical Committee, in the same spirit of cooperation of its members towards a common achievement in the service of the research.
Evolution of infrastructures for AI and computing on GPU
In recent months, demand from GPU computing research communities, especially AI, has grown significantly. To meet this growing need, GRICAD added 4 new GPU compute nodes in the DAHU cluster. GRICAD, through this cluster, provides Grenoble research staff and their collaborators with 6 GPU nodes, ie a total of 24 NIVIDA Tesla V100 GPUs (32GB of RAM per GPU). It should be noted that these nodes are very similar to the GPU / IA nodes that the supercomputer of the IDRIS (national computing center CNRS) Jean Zay. We have also made it possible, in our cloud computing service called NOVA, the deployment of virtual machines ( VM) on demand including GPUs. If you do not have strong performance needs but are in a testing / code development / prototyping phase, do not hesitate to orient yourself towards this service, which is more flexible, flexible and versatile.
Data Cell (Cellule Data) seminar : online recording and presentation
This seminar "Data Management Plan (DMP)" occured on 30 april 2021 online. Seminar recording is available on this link. And presentation slides.
Storage of research data Seminary
The Data Unit of the Grenoble Alpes site, INIST-CNRS and URFIST in Lyon organizer of a series of online events dedicated to Storage of research data . A first national seminar addressing the general issues of will be supplemented by local sessions at some sites partners of the event. These for but to present the solutions storage facilities set up at the local level and will target more particularly to the scientific communities of the sites concerned.The general seminar took place on May 25, 2021 from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. by videoconference. On the program: types of storage? Where and how to store data ? How to organize and document your data? Links with open science ...
To access the resources of this session Information on other sessions will be disseminated. All these events are accessible without prior registration.
Reproducible Research Seminar
April 6 and 9, 2021
MaiMoSiNE, GRICAD and the SARI network are organizing two half-day online seminars around reproducible research to bring together a network of skills in the Grenoble area. - Tuesday April 6, 2021 morning: Part I - Introduction, ethical, legal, environmental issues - Friday April 9, 2021 afternoon: Part II - reproducible good research practices in more targeted research communities A more detailed program will soon be available on MaiMoSiNE's website.
Mantis 2
GRICAD's new distributed storage infrastructure, MANTIS V2 is now available to all users of GRICAD computing machines. It replaces the MANTIS infrastructure which, after more than 10 years of good and loyal service, had become obsolete. As a reminder, MANTIS (V1 or V2) is an iRODS distributed storage cloud available from all the compute nodes of the GRICAD HPC infrastructure. It is an efficient way to store the input data or the outputs of the simulations carried out on the various calculation servers of GRICAD. It is powerful (because storage is spread across multiple nodes), capacitive, and expandable (labs can easily help expand storage capacity by adding new 250TB nodes), and provides a programmable rules engine. With an expandable overall volume of 750TB, each user is allocated one terabyte of space to store their data. To request an extension of this space, do not hesitate to contact us at gricad-contact@univ-grenoble-alpes.fr For more information, you can read the documentation at this address: https: // gricad- doc.univ-grenoble-alpes.fr/hpc/data_management/mantis/
1st Data Cell (Cellule Data) seminar : online recording and presentation
As part of the support around research data, the Data Cell (Cellule Data) of the Grenoble Alpes site start a series of seminars in order to inform and discuss the subject. The 1st seminar "Presentation of the Data Cell and its support actions" occured on 5 mars 2021 online. Seminar recording is available on this link. And presentation slides.
Doctoral College Courses
March 23, 2021
Within the framework of the College des Ecoles Doctorales, the Data Cell of the Grenoble Alpes site offers training on research data entitled "How to manage your data well to facilitate your doctoral work? Issues and good practices". The objective is to know the practical and concrete tools for an effective management of its research. All information is online: on the dedicated website.
Data Cell Seminary
March 5th, 2021
As part of the support around research data, the Data Cell (Cellule Data) of the Grenoble Alpes site will start a series of seminars in order to inform and discuss the subject. The 1st seminar will be devoted to the presentation of the Data Cell and its support actions on research data. It will take place on Friday the 5th of March from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. on this link.
National Training Action
January 18 to 26, 2021
GRICAD supports the organization of the training action UST4HP (User Tools for HPC), proposed by the Computation and ResInfo networks, which takes place from 18 to 26 January 2021.
This year, the main theme will be reproducibility in HPC environments. Due to the health conditions, the courses and practical work will take place online.
The information is online.
Deep Learning Training
January 14, 2021
GRICAD and Nvidia join forces to offer a Deep Learning training day on January 14, 2021. The information is online .
PIA3 / Equipex+ Projects
GRICAD is a partner of 3 PIA3 / Equipex+ projects that have been selected for funding:
- MesoNet, the network of mesocentres, a project led by GENCI.
- Gaia Data, , whose objective is to strengthen the infrastructures of earth sciences, where GRICAD is associated with OSUG.
- TIRREX, infrastructure for the robotics community.
Doctoral College Courses
January 11 to April 30, 2021
Within the framework of the Collège des écoles doctorales and MaiMosSiNE several scientific computing training courses are available. They are mainly intended for doctoral students but also (limited number of places ...) for researchers/engineers from Grenoble research institutes. Please note that this year, the courses take place in distance learning. All information on the dedicated website
The news of 2020
Labellisation Code of Conduct pour le Datacenter IMAG
Thanks to the work carried out by the GRICAD / UGA datacenter technical committee, the IMAG building datacenter has just been labeled by the European Union Joint Research Center (EU-JRC). To know more about the Code of Conduct.
SAVE THE DATE : GRICAD User day 2020
November the 2nd and the 3rd
The next GRICAD User Day will be held on monday 2nd and tuesday 3rd November 2020, in visioconference. More informations on the website: https://jug2020.sciencesconf.org/
Grille de stockage haute capacité MANTIS-2
MANTIS is a storage platform initially intended for inputs / outputs of "grid" type calculations, which are capable of bring into play the CPU resources of all the computing machines managed or co-managed by Gricad. It offers a large storage capacity accessible directly from any computation node and allows the storage of transient data or that must be accessed from heterogeneous sources. This scalable distributed platform driven by "iRods" middleware has been running since 2011 and had reached the size of 1.2 petabytes spread over about fifteen servers. Today, GRICAD has just put MANTIS-2 into production, a second similar platform, also managed under iRods and intended for replace the first grind shortly. It already offers 750 terabytes delivered by only 3 servers. Its capacity and performance are therefore highly scalable, by simply adding 250 base bricks terabytes. In addition, it benefits from better synchronization at Gricad authentication system (Perseus), removing the problematic dissociation of connection keys. Users will soon be invited to migrate their data from MANTIS to MANTIS-2.
Good Practice Guide for the EU Code of Conduct on Data Centre Energy Efficiency
The GRICAD/UGA Datacenter Technical Committee translated the Good Practice Guide for the EU Code of Conduct on Energy Efficiency in Datacenters 2019 for the GDS EcoInfo. This guide is available on line.
Virtual workshop on DMPs
The Data stewarship committee is organizing a virtual workshop on Data Management Plans on July 7.
Support for the Alcov2 project
GRICAD participated in the implementation of
the Alcov2
survey for the study of the transmission of the
new coronavirus in French households conducted by a
Parisian research team.
This survey is aimed at all households French having
possibly experienced, even without certainty, the
presence of the new coronavirus during the containment
period. It will make it possible to better understand
the modes of transmission in households but also in
transportation, schools, places of work, gathering
places, etc.
Contact : alcov2@lpsm.paris
Estimated carbon footprint of one hour per computing core
This study is the result of work carried out within the framework of GRICAD's actions
to reduce its environmental impact.
Find the complete article on
the dedicated
page.
Integration of the cloud to France Grilles
Thanks to the efforts of the entire Openstack technical committee, and more particularly of Remi Cailletaud, the GRICAD "Nova" cloud is now part of France Grilles Research Infrastructure
Involvement in the fight against Covid-19
GRICAD, thanks to its "Nova" cloud, supports several projects around the
Covid-19, in particular data collection and analysis, as well as
MODCOV19 coordination:
- the projet EX-COVID-19, carried by Laboratoire Impact de l'activité physique sur la santé (IAPS)
- the projet FAC, Face au Covid, carried by two laboratories of the INS2I (CNRS): the laboratoire d’Analyse et de Modélisation de Systèmes pour l’Aide à la Décision (LAMSADE) and the le Département Informatique de l'ENS (DIENS)
Rencontre autour des DMP, 14 avril 2020
La cellule data stewardship et le projet Datacc vous
proposent une rencontre autour de la
problématique des Plans de Gestion de Données
(Data Management Plan) le 14 avril à partir de
11h.
Toutes les informations sur le site
:
https://datameetup-dmp.sciencesconf.org/ .
Mise en place d'une cellule data stewardship
GRICAD et ses partenaires ont mis en place une cellule en charge de l'accompagnement des scientifiques sur la gestion de leur données de recherche. Toutes les informations
Hackathon : comment améliorer le dépôt et le partage de données de recherche
Le 14 janvier 2020
La journée que vous propose le groupe de travail inter
réseaux sur les Données mettra un accent particulier
sur les étapes de la gestion des données qui
concernent la préparation et le dépôt des données dans
un/des entrepôt/s qui conviennent. Durant ce hackathon
vous examinerez les façons dont les données doivent
être organisées et décrites pour assurer leur
fiabilité et qualité qui par la suite faciliteront
leur partage et réutilisation. Durant ce hackathon
vous apprendrez aussi ce qu’il ne faut pas faire !
Toutes les informations en ligne.
The news of 2019
SAVE THE DATE : Journée des utilisateurs GRICAD 2019
Le 5 novembre 2019
La prochaine journée des utilisateurs GRICAD aura lieu
mardi 5 novembre 2019, dans l'espace colloque du
bâtiment IMAG.
Le programme est en ligne
et les inscriptions sont ouvertes.
Réservez dès à présent cette date dans vos agendas!
Résultats du hackaton GENCI et vidéo
Les résultats du Hackaton du HPC 2018 organisé par GENCI,
ATOS, INTEL et les mésocentres de Toulouse, Reims,
Grenoble, Bordeaux et Rouen ainsi que par INRIA Bordeaux
sont en ligne.
Les équipes de Grenoble, accompagnées par GRICAD se
distinguent avec le prix de la catégorie "optimisation"
pour le projet de l'équipe YADE TEAM « Calcul distribué
MPI pour la dynamique de systèmes particulaires – Yade-MPI».
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