Presentation
Lab-IA is a shared computing cluster dedicated to reseach in Artificial Intelligence for computer science laboratories on the "Plateau de Saclay" campus. The support is performed by technical manager Eric Bilinski (LISN-ASARD).
Lab-IA was designed primarily to train machine learning systems using deep neural networks. Its aim is to provide an environment for designing, validating and testing artificial intelligence-based systems, which involve cutting-edge research into parallel computing architectures, programming languages and systems for information acquisition and processing. The primary aim of this facility is therefore to make available hardware resources (exchange and storage spaces, computation nodes) and computational environment that are well adapted to the specific needs of artificial intelligence algorithms and equipped with graphics accelerators (GPUs).
Technical description
- 5 nodes: 2x NVIDIA A6000, 2x Intel E5-2620 8 cores/16 threads, 128 GiB de RAM
- 5 nodes: 3x NVIDIA V100, 2x Intel 5120 14 cores/28 threads, 192 GiB de RAM
- 2 nodes: 4x NVIDIA V100, 2x Intel 6148 20 cores/40 threads, 384 GiB de RAM
- HD space memory : 180 TiB (file system BeeGFS)
- Network : 10 Gbps Ethernet + 100 Gpbs InfiniBand EDR
Since 2017, this equipment has been co-financed by the IDF region, the CNRS and the Université Paris-Saclay for a total of 454 k€. It meets the needs of information science laboratories on the Plateau de Saclay, mainly the following establishments:
- Laboratoire Traitement et Communication de l'Information (LTCI)
- Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire des Sciences du Numérique (LISN)
- Laboratoire des Signaux & Systèmes (L2S)
- Services répartis, Architectures, MOdélisation, Validation, Administration des Réseaux (SAMOVAR)
- Systèmes et Applications des Technologies de l'Information et de l'Energie (SATIE)
- Mathématiques et Informatique Appliquées du Génome à l'Environnement (MaIAGE)
Lab-IA is physically hosted at IDRIS (Institut du Développement et des Ressouces en Informatique), one of three national computing centres, which has the surface area, electrical power and cooling capacity required for the equipment to function properly. IDRIS also provides guarantees in terms of the reliability of network services and the physical security of equipment.
Use of Lab-IA
Lab-IA was recently integrated into the new Paris-Saclay mesocentre (2022). It currently hosts 224 projects for 288 users. More than 20,000 computations are performed each year with an increasing trend.