The Consortium des Equipements pour le Calcul Intensif interconnects HPC clusters from the Wallonia-Brussels federation.

The CECI clusters are open to all members of the Wallonia-Brussels universities.


CECI description

The Consortium des Equipements pour le Calcul Inensif is a virtual organisation aiming at enabling and facilitating access to Tier-2 clusters deployed in the universities of the Wallonia-Brussels federation and the Tier-1 cluster hosted at Cenaero. The clusters are inter-connected between the universities and a distributed storage is accessible via a dedicated Belnet 20 Gbps network. Users from ULB, UCLouvain, ULiège, UNamur & UMons can create a CECI account and run jobs on the CECI clusters.
Check the CECI web site for all the details.

ULB & CECI

ULB users are therefore entitled - and warmly encouraged - to create a CECI account and use the available resources within CECI.
Detailed information on how to connect to CECI clusters are given on the CECI web site.

Tier-1 access

The Tier-1 cluster access is based on projects submission and evaluation. The Tier-1 cluster is used either for large parallel jobs (> 1000 cores) or for running a very large batch of small jobs (batches of > 1000 jobs). Please read the procedure for creating a Tier-1 project and feel free to contact us for help in preparing your Tier-1 project.

SERVICES

As part of the CECI, the ULB Scientific Computing team manages the Lyra cluster and offer CECI user support.

Support

The Scientific Computing team offers support for the CECI users. Requests must be sent to hpc@ulb.be

Software

A large software panel is available via the module interface. Additionnal code/software can be optimally compiled and installed on the CECI clusters.

Tier-1 access

If you require help or information to gain access and use the Cenaero Tier-1 cluster, just let us know.