Platform SCIGNE

SCIGNE (Scientific Cloud Computing in Grand-Est) is a pluridisciplinary platform dedicated to the processing and management of massive scientific data. Hosted at IPHC, it is open to regional, national and international scientific actors, whether from the public or private sector.

Missions Governance Partnerships Funding

Infrastructure

The infrastructure consists of computing and data storage systems, recognized at the European level and interconnected to several partners (France Grilles, IFB, EGI and WLCG).

Man Power

It is operated by a team of engineers with complementary technical and scientific expertise

Services

It offers a range of services (training, software development, job management, writing of data management plan, etc.) to meet the challenges of Big Data and the implementation of Open Science policies.

Key figures

3700

Calculation Slots

These resources are available to regional users and other partners in national projects (IN2P3, France Grilles, IFB, LCG-France, …) and international projects (EGI, WLCG, ELIXIR, …).

3000

Terabytes of disk storage

Lastest News

Installation of a new Free-Cooling type cooling system

At the end of February 2023, the SCIGNE platform was equipped with a new air cooler. This equipment, associated with the water cooling system, allows working in free-cooling. It allows you to...

EOSC 2022 Technical Workshop

The GIS France Grilles is co-organising an EOSC technical workshop from 24 to 26 January 2023 at IPHC. The SCIGNE platform team, local organizer of this workshop, invites you to participate to this...

Our Missions

Science in motion

The exponential increase in the complexity of data (volume, variety, speed of generation and access, etc) requires both technological tools and customized user support to successfully meet future scientific challenges. These data can come from large scientific instruments (LHC, KEKB, …), from experimental instruments hosted in laboratories (spectrometry, imaging, …) or from simulations.

Our history

In order to meet these needs, the SCIGNE platform was officially created in 2017 through the labelling by IN2P3. It is located at the Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien (IPHC) under the supervision of the CNRS and the University of Strasbourg. It integrates the computing grid and Cloud Computing services previously hosted at the IPHC, to which specific services for data management have been added.

Support

To support researchers in the processing and management of scientific data

Ressources

To provide the required infrastructures (computing, storage) to allow the exploitation of research data

National contribution

To contribute to the French Research Infrastructures: French Institute of Bioinformatics (IFB) and France Grilles

European contribution

To contribute to European and worldwide infrastructures: BELLE 2, EOSC, EGI, ELIXIR, WLCG

Governance

The steering of the platform is ensured by a steering committee, on which sits a representative of the IPHC’s institutional partners, as well as the technical manager and the scientific coordinator of the platform.

The current composition of this committee is as follows:

Christine CARAPITO, scientific coordinator of SCIGNE, IPHC
Sandrine COURTIN, director of IPHC, IPHC
Sabine CRÉPÉ-RENAUDIN, scientific director of computing and data, IN2P3
Arthur PONS, head of CESAR, University of Strasbourg
Pierre-Étienne MACCHI, director of the IN2P3 Computing Center, IN2P3
Jérôme PANSANEL, technical manager of SCIGNE, IPHC

Scientific Council

The scientific council is the same as that of the HPC centre of the University of Strasbourg. It permits to offer single access to computing facilities at the regional level for the researchers.

User Committee

The purpose of the user committee is to provide advice and feedback to the SCIGNE engineers about the current state and future delivery of resources and services. It is involved in the definition of the evolution of the platform (new services, evolution of the infrastructures, …), the setting up of the training courses and the choice of the strategic orientations? It is composed of current users of the SCIGNE platform.

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