The IFB Cloud

The cloud federation offers a set of preconfigured environments, allowing scientists and bioinformaticians to choose the configuration best suited to their analyses. These virtual bioinformatics environments, developed by members of the IFB community, are registered in the Biosphère catalog.

Scientists and engineers can launch their own virtual environments with dedicated resources that can be adapted to their needs without interfering with other users. This activity is constantly growing, and the IFB’s French cloud has already been used for numerous scientific analyses and training sessions, workshops, hackathons, and several recurring sessions at scientific schools or universities.

An account offers variable space (from 25 GB to 3 TB per virtual machine for the duration of job execution but deleted when the virtual machine is shut down) to which will soon be associated a persistent storage space shared between the virtual machines of a user or group.