Mésocentre d'AMU

MESOCENTRE provides access to high performance/grid/cloud computing facilities and associated data storage. Its main missions are to:
- facilitate the development and improvement of scientific softwares, e.g., porting to larger national or European computing centers,
- give access to HPC and cloud resources for medium-size computations, at a scale larger than what is commonly available in research groups or local institutes,
- promote scientific computing towards SMEs.
MESOCENTRE can support projects from any research area.

The MESOCENTRE resources can be accessed freely for the French higher education and research community; requests must be formulated in the form of research projects whose computing requirements are peer-reviewed by the RI team.
In the case of a funded scientific project (e.g., ANR, Europe) and benefiting from a specific line of credit for using technological platforms, it is possible to obtain a quote for an access service and a CPU time allocation.
Interested private companies can purchase an access to the resources. They should contact the director of Centre de Calcul Intensif d’Aix-Marseille for further details and a quote.

Among the service sprovided by the MESOCENTRE are:
- CPU hour allocations,
- Accesses to CPU nodes, GPU nodes, large memory nodes, development nodes, ...
- Data storage and visualisation,
- Assistance in software installation and usage of the resources.