Life Science Grid clusters

The current page provides information about the Life Science Grid (LSG) clusters and their locations, local support contact persons, and DNS addresses of User Interface (UI) and Storage Element (SE) machines.

If you have any questions concerning access to the clusters below, please contact us at helpdesk@surfsara.nl.

About

The Life Science Grid is a compute and data processing infrastructure that is available for all Life Science researchers working in the Netherlands. The Life Science Grid consists of a series of computer clusters that can be used either as a local facility or as an integrated Grid environment. For both types of usage, you will need an account on a User Interface machine. Accounts on the user interface machines are managed via a central system at SURFsara, and can be arranged after verification by a local site support contact person. To arrange access, the most efficient way is to ask (one of) your local support contact(s) to send a request to our helpdesk for access to the local User Interface machine. Your local support person will need your name, e-mail address, telephone number and nationality, and will verify that you are employed at the relevant institution and an active researcher in one of the Life Science disciplines.

Locations and local support contacts

Location LSG Site Local support contact(s) Notes
AMC, Amsterdam LSG_AMC
Silvia Olabarriaga
Juan Luis Font
  
Delft University of Technology LSG_TUD Robbert Eggermont  
UMCG, Groningen LSG_RUG
Peter Horvatovich
Morriz Swertz
  
LUMC, Leiden LSG_LUMC Michèle Huijberts  
Maastricht University LSG_UM
Maarten Coonen
Nuno Nunes
  
Radboud University, Nijmegen LSG_KUN
Christian Gilissen
Gert Vriend
Janita Bralten
 Includes a 2TB RAM High-memory node; contact helpdesk@surfsara.nl for access.
Erasmus MC, Rotterdam LSG_EMC Henri Vrooman  
Utrecht University LSG_BCBR
Alexandre Bonvin
Johan van der Zwan
  
VU University, Amsterdam LSG_VU René Pool  
Wageningen University LSG_WUR Harm Nijveen  

Cluster details

The following table lists the DNS addresses of the User Interface and Storage Element services, for each of the LSG sites.

LSG Site User interface Storage element LSG Storage SURL
LSG_AMC gb-ui-amc.amc.nl gb-se-amc.amc.nl srm://gb-se-amc.amc.nl:8446/dpm/amc.nl/home/lsgrid/
LSG_TUD gb-ui-tud.ewi.tudelft.nl gb-se-tud.ewi.tudelft.nl srm://gb-se-tud.ewi.tudelft.nl:8446/dpm/ewi.tudelft.nl/home/lsgrid
LSG_RUG gb-ui-rug.sara.usor.nl gb-se-rug.sara.usor.nl srm://gb-se-rug.sara.usor.nl:8446/dpm/sara.usor.nl/home/lsgrid
LSG_LUMC gb-ui-lumc.lumc.nl gb-se-lumc.lumc.nl srm://gb-se-lumc.lumc.nl:8446/dpm/lumc.nl/home/lsgrid
LSG_UM ui.lsg.maastrichtuniversity.nl se.lsg.maastrichtuniversity.nl srm://se.lsg.maastrichtuniversity.nl:8446/dpm/lsg.maastrichtuniversity.nl/home/lsgrid
LSG_KUN gb-ui-kun.els.sara.nl gb-se-kun.els.sara.nl srm://gb-se-kun.els.sara.nl:8446/dpm/els.sara.nl/home/lsgrid
LSG_EMC gb-ui-emc.erasmusmc.nl gb-se-emc.erasmusmc.nl srm://gb-se-emc.erasmusmc.nl:8446/dpm/erasmusmc.nl/home/lsgrid
LSG_BCBR ui.lsg.bcbr.uu.nl se.lsg.bcbr.uu.nl srm://se.lsg.bcbr.uu.nl:8446/dpm/lsg.bcbr.uu.nl/home/lsgrid
LSG_VU ui.lsg.psy.vu.nl se.lsg.psy.vu.nl srm://se.lsg.psy.vu.nl:8446/dpm/lsg.psy.vu.nl/home/lsgrid
LSG_WUR gb-ui-wur.els.sara.nl gb-se-wur.els.sara.nl srm://gb-se-wur.els.sara.nl:8446/dpm/els.sara.nl/home/lsgrid

User Interface machines can be accessed with any SSH client. To learn how to access the Storage Elements, see Grid storage

Aditional Storage Elements

The following Storage Elements are also availble when you are member of the lsgrid VO.

Site Storage element LSG Storage SURL Remarks
SURFsara srm://srm.grid.sara.nl srm://srm.grid.sara.nl:8443/pnfs/grid.sara.nl/data/lsgrid See dCache
Target Groningen srm://srm.target.rug.nl srm://srm.target.rug.nl:8444/lsgrid  
Test Cluster SURFsara srm://gb-se-ams.els.sara.nl srm://gb-se-ams.els.sara.nl:8446/dpm/els.sara.nl/home/lsgrid Do not use: testing purpose only