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The Agrogenomics cluster is a High Performance Computer (HPC) infrastructure hosted by Wageningen University & Research Centre. It is open for use for all WUR research groups as well as other organizations, including companies, that have collaborative projects with WUR.

The Agrogenomics HPC was an initiative of the Breed4Food (B4F) consortium, consisting of the Animal Breeding and Genomics Centre (WU-Animal Breeding and Genomics and Wageningen Livestock Research) and four major breeding companies: Cobb-Vantress, CRV, Hendrix Genetics, and TOPIGS. Currently, in addition to the original partners, the HPC (HPC-Ag) is used by other groups from Wageningen UR (Bioinformatics, Centre for Crop Systems Analysis, Environmental Sciences Group, and Plant Research International) and plant breeding industry (Rijk Zwaan).

Using the HPC-Ag

Gaining access to the HPC-Ag

Access to the cluster and file transfer are traditionally done via SSH and SFTP.

Access Policy

Main Article: Access Policy

Access needs to be granted actively (by creation of an account on the cluster by FB-IT). Use of resources is limited by the scheduler. Depending on availability of queues ('partitions') granted to a user, priority to the system's resources is regulated. Note that the use of the HPC-Ag is not free of charge. List price of CPU time and storage, and possible discounts on that list price for your organisation, can be retrieved from CAT-AGRO or FB-ICT.

Events

  • Courses that have happened and are happening
  • Downtime that will affect all users
  • Meetings that may affect the policies of the HPC

Other Software

Cluster Management Software and Scheduler

The HPC-Ag uses Bright Cluster Manager software for overall cluster management, and Slurm as job scheduler.

Installation of software by users

Installed software

Useful Notes

Being in control of Environment parameters

Controlling costs

Management

Main Article: HPC management

Project Leader of the HPC is Stephen Janssen (Wageningen UR,FB-IT, Service Management). Jan van Lith (Wageningen UR,FB-IT, Infrastructure) and Gwen Dawes (Wageningen UR, FB-IT, Infrastructure) are responsible for Maintenance and Management.

Miscellaneous

See also

External links