Bio-informatics Platform of Bordeaux CBiB
The team at the Bordeaux Bioinformatics Centre (CBiB) operates at the frontier between life sciences and computer science – statistics. Its expertise lies in the collection, integration, cross-referencing and analysis of omics data. The challenge of analysing large volumes of data quickly and reliably leads the CBiB to develop “Big Data” based methods. To do so, the CBiB brings together the required skills in bioinformatics and computer science; the centre is equipped with the appropriate computing and storage resources, in coherence with regional facilities (the Mésocentre de Calcul Aquitain – MCIA), the national bioinformatics infrastructure (Investissement d’Avenir, Institut Français de Bioinformatique – IFB) and the European ELIXIR infrastructure.
Expertise
- "Omics" data analysis and integration
- Development of specific analyses
- Pipeline development and bioinformatics methods
The platform’s expertise is particularly renowned in algorithmics, high throughput integration of biological data, their analysis and visualization. Whether for large projects or for particular expertise, the team has the skills, equipment and capability to study the complexity of biological systems.
Services offered by the CBiB
Services offered by the CBiB
Standard and custom analyses of biological data
Implementation of “Big Data” approaches
Development and maintenance of biological databases
Development of bioinformatics infrastructure and software, in particular for NGS data
Customized analysis and advice for bioinformatics projects
Setting up collaborative projects with research teams
Workshops and trainings on different bioinformatics areas
- Standard and custom analyses of biological data
- Implementation of "Big Data" approaches
- Development and maintenance of biological databases
- Development of the infrastructure and bioinformatics softwares, in particular for NGS data
- Analysis and personalized advices for bioinformatics projects
- Setting up collaborative projects with research teams
- Workshops and training on different bioinformatics thematics

Equipments
- Storage for production on DELL ISILON, ~650 Tb usable composed of 6 H400 nodes
- Storage based on IBM Spectrum Scale (ex-GPFS) for scratch (ex GPFS), ~300TB usable with 2 IO nodes [Dell R730] + JBOD [Dell MD3460]
- Storage for production storage replication, GlusterFS, remote site, 400TB
- Storage based on ZFS for backup, 50TB (mirrored on a remote site)
- Cluster cortex
- Total of 25 compute nodes, 512 cores, 7.2TB RAM
- 24 standard computing nodes, Dell R630 (20 cores, 256 GB RAM)
- 1 "big memory" compute node, Dell R630 (32 cores, 1TB RAM)
- 2 login nodes, Dell R630 (20 cores, 256 GB RAM)
- GPU server 2 x Intel Xeon Silver 4114 (10-core) 128 GB RAM, SSD disks (3To) 8 x NVIDIA TESLA T4 16GB GDDR6
- Cluster Proxmox VE
- 3 servers DELL PowerEdge R640 (2 CPU Xeon 4114, 20 cores, 256GB) + dedicated shared storage (20TB)
- Internet access 1 Gbits/s (shared) provided by the University of Bordeaux
- LAN Intel Omni-Path (data), 100Gbit/s
- LAN Ethernet (administration), 10 Gbits/s
- Room 28m²
- Hot aisle containment
- Chiller+ Free Cooling ( 50% of the time)
- Heat exchangers air/water(water network at 15°C)
- UPS fault tolerance capacity of 48kW N+1
- Supervision of the IT room (temperature, humidity, water leakage, consumption by oulet, UPS, chiller, LCP)

Certification / Quality Assurance
Certified ISO9001 since 2012, and NFX 50-900 since 2017
Labels
IBISA

Platform Managment
Macha Nikolski (Director)
Alexis Groppi (Deputy Director)
CBiB
146 rue Léo Saignat
33076 Bordeaux cedex
Contacts
Macha Nikolski : macha.nikolski@u-bordeaux.fr
Tel : 05 57 57 12 47
Alexis Groppi : alexis.groppi@u-bordeaux.fr
Tel : 05 57 57 12 18