yeah so I want to start off the day with going through some of the services that we offer for you
researchers but before I do that I will go to some of the expectations we see from you users so
when it comes to data you need to be able to collect data transport it do data creation
have some information on data quality data management databases are needed data sharing data
exploration and all of this needs to be delivered as flexible as possible and you need of course
unlimited storage capacity but most of all you need the competencies to do all these problems the
right way
and you need to do this with an affordable price
so that's the bar you put on us data and then analysis so of course you need to access the to
sufficient compute power as close to the data as possible
so you that means that you need access to local resources which I will talk about now national
resources which we'll talk about in the next talk most international resources
you need access to CPU GPU other relevant accelerators
and you need an environment that allows collaboration because no one works at one small University
alone we all have collaborators all over the world to need to collaborate with any person from anywhere
and from any device you have a cell phone or a laptop or whatever you need version control systems
to take care of controlling the codes
you need the software and databases available you need it at the right level of security for your
data you need all this delivery as flexible as possible and you need the competency to deal with
these problems and of course all at an affordable price
so let's see now if we can reach some of these expectations so first bit on the like regular usage
services that we deliver so we do deliver near unlimited storage last time I talked I said unlimited
storage but then someone in my group said that was impossible but near unlimited at least well you
might have to pay for it but that's okay
and then deliver a virtual machines from VMware also openstack VMS with NREC we have specialized
servers which I will talk a bit more about we have databases professionally driven databases
postgres work etcetera the data management and also we deliver many courses we will talk a little bit
more about that later as well
right so just pick up the few of these so NREC is a openstack solution it's an IaaS so infrastructure
as a service that means that you will get a VM and then you have to do everything on it it's very
good for experiment experimenting but also this is where we deliver all the CERN compute power
we will come back to it later
then when it comes to machine learning we have a bunch of servers with GPUs in them available for
you it's there's no queue system or anything there but it's a nice set of machines with
different GPU so we can test different things and similar we have a lightweight HPC as you call them
which are maybe a little bit old but
very powerful servers that you can go into and do computing
if you have problems slightly bigger than your laptop is also here no queue system that means that
when you use it you just have to check if there's unload will give a damn about this later today
and to access this machine learning and lightweight HPC everyone from UiO can get access all you
need to do is to fill in this form basically you just have to click if you want light HPC or ML-node
and you will get access there quite quick this is a very low threshold service
speaking about UiO services so I have one announcement to make so
about SSH so historically access to any appnode and HPC boxes well as most of the other things that
UiO linux servers we're open from anywhere but the world has changed and we need
fewer attack surfaces to be able to cope as a first step all boxes on the HPC UiO domain will
from June 20 only be accessable
with SSH from the UiO network
so that means if you if you work from home you cannot directly access the nodes anymore so actually
it's not a very big change basically you need to jump to through some login node at UiO and the
URL is he down here you see a full explanation how to do this how to set up the SSH config file to
make this
seamless as possible
and then after summer the next step will be to add the two-factor authentication to the jump host
servers that are still accessible from the outside world
right so while we offer a lot of nice services within the UiO network sometimes this generic UiO
wide rules and this network which is like covering everything at UiO can make it a bit hard to offer
specialized services for researchers
so when we started with TSD some years ago we had to create a service platform which was separate
from UiO network and the storage to be able to enable services with enough security to handle
sensitive data
and since the date was sensitive we needed to install an HPC system inside that platform so you can
analyze the data this was presented on Monday as well so all this gave us some extra benefits so it
we had to have some milk attendant arrangement so that made it possible for any user in any country
to get access to TSD
we have to have data sharing collection analysis and publication and as I mentioned HPC computation
power
smart phone support constant service and it turns out that having this platform separate from UiO
made it possible to do a rapid development we could do it with the right security and since it was
is hosted by UiO it's also Schrems II-safe
so that is very nice yeah so quick about Colossus I try to take a picture but this these two guys
kept getting in the way but the right behind got there you should see Colossus and this is a system
which is owned by UiO Sigma 2 and some other partners so people put in some money they can get
resources inside Colossus
right so then we figure out that part of what has made TSD so popular is not only that they can
handle very sensitive and black data is actually the separation from the UiO network and
storage and the project-based IEM has made it possible for researchers to pull in collaborators from
anywhere in the world to their projects
so now we set up Educloud research this is very similar to TSD but with slightly reduced security
levels so that we can spin up lightweight services in a platform
so this it's a collaborative platform this is the most important with the Educloud research platform we
offer VDIs virtual Linux and windows desktops are available we have compute power storage data
transfer high-speed data transfer Nettskjema is possible we have now a very nice solution
if you have some course in each HPC or GPU related topics so that we can set up
side resources for you there there's a Galaxy portal Nextcloud has come and is hosted by UiO as
same as TSD and as you see with the rapid development will come with even more very soon
right so just a picture of this Educloud research platform
so basically all users that have access you can get into the platform through SSH or to web or this
Horizon the VMware Horizon client which sets up a virtual desktop for you
and when you are inside here you can submit jobs HPC you can use GPUs there are also a bunch of
different services and they all see the same storage so this is very nice platform also if you need
scale out we are looking into first scaling out to NREC and then actually as well
and the nice thing is that here two factor authentication is already available so this means that we
don't need a jump post to go into Fox we can just SSH directly into it
so I think this is a very nice platform and then inside here we have Fox which we are very proud of
so the main point with Fox is that you should have very easy access it is free for all UiO users at
least the compute part storage you might have to pay for if you need a lot
it got 3000 cores it has interactive nodes and job-based nodes using slurm this is very similar
to the national systems that Jenny will talk about soon
it has 3 AI nodes so GPU nodes with four A100
in each of them so this is very powerful GPU cards plus infiniband GPFS and the GPFS cluster
storage is the same storage as you will have access to from the VDIs
and it has some very very fast NVMe scratch disk locally on each of the compute nodes
you can buy your own nodes like NCMM and IFI if you need it here is an overview of the
architecture of the details there but when it started a year ago it took some time
before we got some load but actually now is we saw last week there are actually two times more jobs
sort of three times more jobs pending done running so that means we actually
we have a queue here so this is very good people starting to use it
rights so all of these resources that we talked about is something that you could probably buy from
the clouds in some cases even cheaper but what you don't get and which is I think the most important
services that I have a provide is pre-built scientific software so we try to make that available on
all our resources and we have the competency to build it there are several ways to do NOTE Treffsikkerhet: 80% (HØY)
software you could do it the messy way with downloading and installing for resource but we prefer
this what we call the standard way where we use Easybuild to build the software and you have
modules from Lmod to get access to the software so this is what we use on the national HPC with
NRIS and we use the same locally so this means that we will get this as uniform as possible
and also we are looking into NESSI and EESSI projects we have put some resources in there so this is a very
nice project that would enable you to get the same software stack on your laptop as on the appnodes
an HPC nodes even on Azure so that will basically we will be able to provide the software as a
service in itself
so this is something that will help a lot in the future I think
but of course the most important thing is the competency
so we have a 50 plus staff fourty percent of PhDs in various Fields so that we can talk the same
talk as researchers and its top competency in the field of science and computing
we don't have that money informatic people we actually have quite a lot of various fields from
bioinformatics to physics so we know how to use computers
focused on user needs flexibility scalability and to get the most bang for the bucks so price
performance
and to make sure that our competency is good enough we do a lot of collaboration both internationally with
the we provide storage and compute for CERN and we work tightly with the science and digital
resources in Neic they have one guy in the Neic executive team so we are very involved there as well
and with the with NRIS we work with the four oldest universities and sigma 2 and we will talk
about that in the next talk now and also very recently we got funding for norwegian artificial
intelligence clouds with a bunch of partners you can see here so this is run by Sabry
he is just starting so this is
something very interesting to come
thank you