SCITAS - Administration

SCITAS - Gestion (Scientific IT and Application Support Center) at EPFL provides scientific computing resources and high-performance computing expertise to the EPFL community. With a main mission to offer efficient and customer-oriented access to scientific equipment and service expertise in high-performance computing, SCITAS serves around 100 labs and 800 unique users. The platform supports various research areas such as computational chemistry, material science, fluid mechanics, engineering, machine learning, bioinformatics, life sciences, and data sciences. SCITAS is actively working on expanding its services beyond traditional HPC by enhancing storage capacity, speed, security, and providing access to public cloud providers. The platform also focuses on resources consolidation, network optimization, shared filesystems, CPU-GPU nodes, scientific software stack, containers, source repository, jupyter notebooks, and professional operation and maintenance of HPC clusters.