HPC facilities

Overview

Teaching: 5 min
Exercises: 0 min

Questions

• Question 1

Objectives

• Objective 1

What are the IDACs

• IDACs idea: computational facilities from all over the world contribute their CPU hours and storage space
• Different types of IDACs: full DR storage, light IDACs, computation-only…

IDACs roster

A table with IDAC website, CPUs/GPU/Storage space data, Status (operational, construction, planned…), LSST and other surveys data stored, access info (command line/GUI), access policy (automated upon registration, personal contact needed, restricted to certain countries, etc), additional information (e.g. no Jupyter or best suited for LSST epoch image analysis).

Key Points

• Keypoint 1