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author | Luis Muñoz Fuente <luis.munoz.edu@juntadeandalucia.es> | 2024-02-24 19:02:10 +0100 |
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committer | Luis Muñoz Fuente <luis.munoz.edu@juntadeandalucia.es> | 2024-02-24 19:02:10 +0100 |
commit | 88a42948b65b3a6c65f23bd5e02eff44ecaaa12b (patch) | |
tree | 34ec50333c555d3d5189a05a92f6924f0b6d40ce /english | |
parent | 531bb00bf7140bd9376fb6d14464c50c824c0404 (diff) |
Update entry - audit done by private email exchange
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diff --git a/english/users/org/gsi.wml b/english/users/org/gsi.wml index 1e3245d568d..d276637b316 100644 --- a/english/users/org/gsi.wml +++ b/english/users/org/gsi.wml @@ -6,22 +6,21 @@ #use wml::debian::users <p> - GSI is a German non-profit research lab that runs a heavy ion accelerator - and is part of the Helmholtz association. The HPC department of GSI is - running a Linux <q>farm</q> with more than a 1000 nodes. We primarily use - Debian for our Linux installation since the last millennium (around 1997). + GSI is a German non-profit physics research facility that runs a heavy ion + accelerator and is part of the + <a href="https://www.helmholtz.de/en/research/">Helmholtz association</a>. + GSI's IT department is running a Linux "farm" with more than 1500 OS + instances on premises (VMs as well as bare-metal), roughly 50% of them + running Debian GNU/Linux. Debian has been GSIs main Linux distribution + since 1997. </p> <p> - We have recently activated a 10,000 core compute cluster and 1.5 PB Lustre - storage with Infiniband-only networking running Debian Squeeze and managed - by GridEngine - on top of our existing ~5000 CPU core cluster with more than - 2 PB Lustre storage. Apart from our compute cluster we also provide some - hundred desktops, servers for data acquisition, central IT services and - collaboration web services with Debian. + For our deployments ranging from fundamental IT services to desktops we + benefit a lot from the thousands of packages that we can simply pull from + the well-curated and high-quality Debian repositories installations. </p> <p> - We profit a lot from the more than 2000 packages that we can simply pull - from the standard Debian repositories for our default desktop installation. + We also sponsor - and utilize - the Debian LTS support. </p> |