HPC4Health/fr

Contexte

Dans le cadre des concours de 2020, il y aura un projet pilote pour l’allocation de ressources sur une grappe fournie par HPC4Health.

HPC4Health is a consortium of health providers from the University Health Network and The Hospital for Sick Children who build and maintain a virtualized compute infrastructure with high levels of security for health-related computation.

Le service sera configuré selon les standards de Calcul Canada (Slurm, CVMFS); sur demande, des configurations techniques particulières pourraient être considérées. La disponibilité et le soutien ne sont pas encore pleinement déterminés; ils pourraient être modifiés au courant de l’année d’allocation, mais la plateforme devrait recevoir le même soutien que les autres sites hôtes.

Admissibilité

Pour qu’une demande soit considérée, il faut d’abord obtenir une consultation avec HPC4Health; pour ce faire, contactez rac@calculcanada.ca.

In order to be eligible for HPC4Health resources, RAC awardees will be required to:

1. Sign a collaboration agreement with the University Health Network
2. Not act as a health information network provider under PHIPA (i.e., not to use HPC4Health resources to share the data to collaborators or through the web)
3. Use two factor authentication to log into the services

Once awarded, recipients of the HPC4Health RAC resources will require consultation with the HPC4Health team to coordinate signing of the collaboration agreement and confirmation that recipients will not act as health information network providers.

Eligible projects for HPC4Health resources will be health-related. Health research computation includes data sets which may otherwise be restricted to local institution compute systems due to it containing PHI, de-identified but still sensitive data, or data which cannot be easily deidentified (e.g. whole genomes). HPC4Health will work with end users and their institutional REB and Legal departments to ensure any specific requirements can be met.

Infrastructure disponible pour les concours de 2020

HPC4Health is allocating 500 CPU cores and 60TB of storage to the RAC pilot project.

Compute node specifications:

• 7 compute nodes with 38 cores and 230GB RAM

• 7 compute nodes with 38 cores and 125GB RAM

• 10 GE interconnects

• 60TB of scale-out NFS accessible storage

HPC4Health does not provide clients with tape backups, backups are the responsibility of the user.

CernVM File System

Resource Allocation Competition