Montpellier Bioinformatics and Biodiversity (MBB)

Software hosting for users who wish to implement their programs as an online tool or as a binary/ source code package downloadable from the platform’s website.

• support for code development: this service helps researchers to parallelize/ optimize their programs, port code to different operating systems, use graphical libraries, and package, compile and implement software packages.
• access to the computing cluster: LabEx members can request an SSH account that provides access to a 200-core Linux cluster managed by the Open Grid Scheduler Queue Manager.
• access to Big Data machines: 5 high-capacity servers (512 GB RAM, 64-core, 6 TB hard disk) can be reserved for a period of 2 to 4 weeks. These servers are equipped with virtual machines in the form of the CloudBioLinux distribution, and users have exclusive access for the duration of their reservation.
• RStudio Server: the RStudio package is installed on a Linux server. This machine is dedicated to the development of R scripts and performance testing on resources provided for this purpose.
• 8-core, 328 GB RAM cluster
• GPU computing
• one machine equipped with a NVidia Tesla K20 graphics card (2496 GPU cores and 5GB of GDDR5 memory) to compile or launch CUDA-compatible code.