From 88a42948b65b3a6c65f23bd5e02eff44ecaaa12b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Luis=20Mu=C3=B1oz=20Fuente?= Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2024 19:02:10 +0100 Subject: Update entry - audit done by private email exchange --- english/users/org/gsi.wml | 23 +++++++++++------------ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) (limited to 'english') 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

- 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 farm 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 + Helmholtz association. + 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.

- 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.

- 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.

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