Scientific Computing and Research Support Unit (DCRS)
The Scientific Computing and Research Support Unit (Division calcul et soutien à la recherche, DCSR, in French) provide computation and storage resources to the UNIL community as well as transverse expertise to the various faculties of the University and its affiliated institutes. The expertise ranges from high performance computing (HPC) programming support to full stack development consulting missions.
Link: DCSR homepage
Hybrid GPU supercomputer
OCTOPUS – The hybrid GPU supercomputer octopus is the flagship machine, composed of 136 Nvidia GeForce GTX Titan X accelerators. The design of the octopus was realised together with Colfax. The discovery cluster is a 3 nodes GPU/MIC hybrid machine, and served to test different hardware accelerators and intra-node memory bandwidth optimisation.
Link: octopus homepage