Resources reservation

Beyond parts of the machine contractually dedicated, users having access to the infrastructure can request resources reservation under the conditions described hereafter.  A resources reservation must be exceptional and must be motivated.

Reservations for management of deadlines

  • Purpose: Matching an approaching deadline
  • Request procedure
    • Requires a motivation as reserved resources are accounted at 100%:
      • validation by CECI for academic research project (Cat 1);
      • validation by the project manager or principal investigator.
    • By email to itatcenaero [dotcenaero] be
    • Minimum 5 business days of prior notice
  • Granting conditions
    • Requests are handled in the order they were submitted to Cenaero
    • They are granted for as long as:
      • reservations represent less than 4320 cores;
      • the reservation requires less than 311 040 hours.cores;
      • the reservation duration is less than 10 days.
    • The reservation renewal is dependent on its usage and its motivation.

Reservations for large resources

  • Purpose : Performing computations that go beyond applicable limits (e.g. maximum number of cores for a job)
  • Request procedure
    • By email to itatcenaero [dotcenaero] be
    • Minimum 30 calendar days of prior notice before the next quarterly maintenance window
    • Requires
      • the validation of the project manager or principal investigator (reserved resources are accounted at 100%) and
      • the approval of the User Committee
  • Granting conditions
    • Requests are handled in the order they were submitted to Cenaero
    • Scheduled just after the quarterly maintenance window for a maximum of 18 hours beyond it
    • The beneficiaries committed in producing a short report of about two pages describing the tests performed and the results obtained