ORFEO Data Center

ORFEO (Open Research Facility for Epigenomics and Other) is a modern containerised data center capable of providing advanced computing and data analysis associated with genomics and much more.
The infrastructure, designed with full redundancy of all components, offers a set of high-memory computing nodes (up to 1.5 TB of RAM per server) and latest-generation processors. Certain servers are equipped with dual V100 GPGPU cards with 32 GB of RAM.

The system is capable of delivering over 4 million hours/year per year in its various types.

Total storage capacity reaches 3 BP of space in raw mode and is served to users through a parallel Ceph filesystem for the fast SSD-based component and a standard component.  The long-term storage partition is over 1.5 Petabytes in size.

The system is highly flexible and reconfigurable. In fact, there is a cloud infrastructure alongside the computing servers that enables HPC-AI services to be provided via the cloud.
The container hosting the data centre is connected through redundant 10 Gbit fibre optics to Area Science Park’s network and Lightnet, thus offering fast connection speeds with the entire regional and national research network.