Our Offer
Offer
Our Offer
The VSC has developed a differentiated infrastructure (Tier-1 and Tier-2 level) that is available to the academic and business world. This section will provide an overview of the Tier-2 infrastructure available within the various Flemish universities. More information on Tier-1 can be found here. This is not always limited to the consumption of computing time and associated standard user support (including training), but occasionally also involves a more comprehensive service, such as specific software optimisation.
Infrastructure
Infrastructure
The VSC acknowledges that computational research increasingly requires more than computing power only. Academic and industrial researchers experience a growing demand for resources that enable data processing, easier access to that data and customized user environments.
The VSC meets these objectives by venturing into a new conceptual Tier-1 model: Supercomputing as a Service (SaaS). This model consists of different infrastructure components that together make it possible to offer an increased service level to the users of the VSC.
The VSC has developed a differentiated infrastructure that is available to the academic and business world. This section will provide an overview of the Tier-2 infrastructure available within the various Flemish universities.
Click on "detailed infrastructure" for more information on each university
Services
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Services
The range of services that the VSC supplies are built on four pillars: consultancy, research collaboration, training and computing power.
Consultancy
The VSC experts analyze the specific needs and examine how supercomputing can offer added value. The VSC offers a free intake interview to ascertain which benefits HPC can offer and which services in the VSC network best satisfy these needs.
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Research collaboration
The VSC acts as HPC contact and can channel the question from a company for research collaboration (e.g., in the context of an R&D project).
Within the network, the VSC can bring the company into contact with a suitable top-level research partner in the Flemish academic landscape and act as intermediary.
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Training
The VSC regularly organises basic training events. Topics include Linux, (parallel) programming languages and paradigms, code optimization, but also application-driven training such as materials science, computational fluid dynamics etc. Customized end-user training can also be provided.
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Computing power
Computing time on the state-of-the-art supercomputing infrastructure is available within the VSC network. Users receive step-by-step support for starting computational tasks and a special help-desk is ready to solve user-related questions and to assist the users in the installation of specific software.