DISC (Data Center)
DISC is CRCM's scientific data processing platform
The development of "in silico" research methods, and not just "in vivo" (tests carried out on animals) or "in vitro" (tests carried out in test tubes), requires a high-performance computing and storage infrastructure.
Based on computer simulation or modeling, "in silico" methods are a new way of testing chemicals. The results of existing tests are used to model, predict and evaluate the properties of chemical substances on the human body and the environment. In this way, it is possible to predict and assess the nature of a particular chemical substance, used in a particular setting, and without having to resort to testing on animals or living cells.
The advantages of using "in silico" methods are potentially immense, as they enable us to reduce animal testing, cut research and production costs and lead times, test a large number of chemical substances, and increase the quality and quantity of information.
Designed first and foremost as a tool for research, this platform provides a high-performance computing environment and resources, as well as the essential support for the development of new tools, applications and methods required for scientific projects.
It's also a place and a tool for exchange, bringing together a long-standing community as well as new players in the field of computing and data processing, and an indispensable gateway to national and international computing networks.
The platform's services are aimed in particular at all researchers and engineers in the CRCM and IPC groups and platforms, as well as their national and international collaborators, and also at industrial partners for their needs in the field of scientific computing.
The services offered, in addition to the support to its users, are :
- A high-performance computing infrastructure, enabling applications and codes to be run and tested under highly parallelized computing conditions.
- A range of virtual servers enabling you to rapidly set up a specific computing or development environment.
- Space for scientific data storage and backup.
- High-quality visualization tools for remote display on simple workstations, even those without high-performance graphics cards.
Visit our website: https://disc.marseille.inserm.fr/
Labels, Funding and Partners
- MobyleNet networks (Bioinformatics and chemoinformatics tools)
- ReNaBi (Bioinformatics Computing Grid)
- eNMR (European computational grid for computational tools related to NMR, Modeling, Molecular Stacking, etc.).
