Kraken’s freeride

GRICAD is launching a call for projects for its new Kraken supercomputer, available from June 2 to June 30, 2025 in “challenge” mode.
Public researchers in Grenoble can submit applications before April 14, 2025.
This “freeride” period offers exclusive access to 11,328 AMD Genoa CPU cores, 28 Nvidia H100 GPUs and a 300 TB NVMe storage system. Projects must be able to scale on either CPU (9,984 cores) or GPU (28 H100) partitions, or both.
This test phase will enable the platform's operation to be evaluated and fine-tuned in real-life conditions. The selected researchers will have full access to the compute nodes and scratch system, but should expect some platform reboots.
The aim of this initiative is to involve the HPC community in evaluating the performance of the new system in a real-life environment.
Successful projects will contribute to the improvement of Kraken before its official launch.
All the information is available on this page,

GRICAST, the GRICAD podcast, is finally here!

This year GRICAD is launching a new podcasting service for research organisations.
To promote it, we have created GRICAST, the GRICAD podcast, where we discuss the issues that are important to us and the services we offer. This podcast is only in French.
You can now listen to all 4 episodes of season 1 :

• GRICAST #01 - C'est quoi GitLab ?
  In this first episode, Pierre-Antoine Bouttier introduces us to the GitLab software forge hosted by GRICAD and available to the Grenoble higher education and research community.
• GRICAST #02 - La sobriété numérique
  What is digital sobriety? Our guests Florence Maraninchi and Denis Trystram, teacher-researchers at ENSIMAG, shed some light on the issue.
• GRICAST #03 - Le calcul intensif pour la recherche
  A new episode in which Pierre-Antoine Bouttier, Bruno Bzeznik and Benjamin Arrondeau from GRICAD discuss high performance computing and its importance for Grenoble's research.
• GRICAST #04 - La science ouverte, le début d'une aventure collective
  « Some see open science as a way of facilitating research work. Others see it as an additional constraint. Whether you know a little, a lot, or nothing at all, if you're here with us, it's because you want to learn more.» In this final episode of the season, the members of the Cellule Data Grenoble Alpes give an overview of what open science is and what is at stake.

You can listen to this podcast on POD UGA, Deezer, Spotify and Apple Podcasts.
Links to the various platforms are available on this page, you'll also find all the information you need to create podcasts for your laboratory.
GRICAST season 2 is currently being recorded, with new episodes coming soon. In the meantime, we hope you enjoy listening!

Café Guix - Reproducible software environment, in what timeframe?

26 november from 1pm to 2pm

Visio

This session will be led by Simon Tournier (Université Paris Cité) on this link.
The question of Reproducible Research implicitly raises the question of time. It's not just a question of being able to redeploy exactly the same software environment just now. The issue of the software environment for Reproducible Research is about the ‘later’ of this redeployment. This raises two questions: firstly, can we already talk about a reproducible software environment? And if not, when? What's missing? Then, what are we doing today to prepare for ‘later’? Can we evaluate this later? 6 months, 1 year, 2 years, more? Here, through the prism of Guix, we propose to discuss some of this.
You will find all the information concerning the "Cafés Guix" here : https://hpc.guix.info/events/2024-2025/café-guix/.