ICF (Informatics Compute Facility)

The Informatics Compute Facility (ICF) provides access to the use of a GPU compute cluster, running on servers managed as a Small Research Facility.

The ICF provides a:

• Paid tier for research uses only with access available to:
  • PGR students who are enrolled on School of Informatics programmes
  • Students who are enrolled on School of Informatics CDTs
  • Principal Investigators and their research teams involved in grant funded projects administered by the School of Informatics
• Free tier split into:
  • An allocation for teaching uses only with access to UG and PGT students enrolled on School of Informatics programmes and courses
  • An allocation for research uses only with access to School of Informatics academic staff, research staff and PGR students as well as sponsored collaborators (external to the School of Informatics or University of Edinburgh)

Access to the paid tier will also be made available to other University of Edinburgh PGR students, CDT students and PIs; however, this is not anticipated at the outset, and only if there is sufficient capacity that the needs of the School of Informatics can still be safely accommodated.

Partitions(Queues)

The ICF will be implemented via the Following partitions with the associated partitions