Images and flavors

You can choose from a number of images and templates:

Available images:

Image

Description

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Local data

debian13-base

Native Debian 13 image

debian

/home/debian (local)

/home/debian

debian13-desktop-base

Debian 13 image with PSMN user data (home, Xnfs)

debian

/home/debian (local)

/home/debian

rocky9-base

Native Rocky Linux 9 image

rocky

/home/rocky (local)

/home/rocky

ubuntu24-base

Native Ubuntu 24.04 image

ubuntu

/home/ubuntu (local)

/home/ubuntu

ubuntu24-desktop-base

Ubuntu 24.04 Desktop (Mate)

ubuntu

/home/ubuntu (local)

/home/ubuntu

debian13-psmn

Debian 13 image with PSMN user data (home, Xnfs)

PSMN login

/home/$LOGIN (NFS)

/localdata

debian13-desktop-psmn

Debian 13 Desktop (XFCE) image with PSMN user data (home, Xnfs)

PSMN login

/home/$LOGIN (NFS)

/localdata

debian13-cuda-psmn

Debian 13 image with PSMN user data (home, Xnfs), NVIDIA drivers and CUDA 13.2

PSMN login

/home/$LOGIN (NFS)

/localdata

rocky9-psmn

Rocky Linux 9 image with PSMN user data (home, Xnfs)

PSMN login

/home/$LOGIN (NFS)

/localdata

ubuntu24-psmn

Ubuntu 24.04 image with PSMN user data (home, Xnfs)

PSMN login

/home/$LOGIN (NFS)

/localdata

ubuntu24-cuda-psmn

Ubuntu 24.04 image with PSMN user data (home, Xnfs), NVIDIA drivers and CUDA 13.2

PSMN login

/home/$LOGIN (NFS)

/localdata

ubuntu24-desktop-psmn

Ubuntu 24.04 Desktop (Mate) image with PSMN user data (home, Xnfs)

PSMN login

/home/$LOGIN (NFS)

/localdata

ubuntu24-desktop-imaging-psmn

Ubuntu 24.04 Desktop (Mate) with bio-imaging software and PSMN user data (home, Xnfs), NVIDIA drivers and CUDA 12.8

PSMN login

/home/$LOGIN (NFS)

/localdata

ubuntu24-desktop-matlab -psmn

Ubuntu 24.04 Desktop (Mate) with Matlab 2023b and PSMN user data (home, Xnfs) |

PSMN login

/home/$LOGIN (NFS)

/localdata

jupyter-psmn

Ubuntu 24.04 with Jupyterlab notebooks for datascience

PSMN login

/home/$LOGIN (NFS)

/localdata

Available flavors:

Name

VCPUs

RAM

Disk

standard.1c4g

1

4G

80G

standard.2c8g

2

8G

80G

standard.4c16g

4

16G

120G

standard.8c32g

8

32G

120G

standard.16c64g

16

64G

120G

standard.32c128g

32

128G

120G

standard.64c256g

64

256G

120G

manycores.96c288g

96

288G

120G

manycores.128c320g

128

320G

120G

manycores.190c368g

190

368G

120G

manycores.255c496g

255

496G

120G

bigmem.32c1t

32

1T

120G

bigmem.64c2t

64

2T

120G

bigmem.96c3.5t

96

3.5T

120G

gpu.l4.16c64g

16

64G

120G

gpu.l4.190c368g

190

368

120G

About images and flavors

GPU images

ubuntu24-cuda-psmn, debian13-cuda-psmn and ubuntu24-desktop-imaging-psmn images require gpu.l4.* flavor.

Currently, the infrastructure is equipped with 4 GPUs only. It means that only 4 VMs with GPU can run simultaneously, all projects combined. If you try to deploy a VM with the gpu.l4.16c64g flavor when all GPUs are busy, you will get an error No valid host was found.

Jupyter images

You can chose any of the flavors to run jupyter-psmn image. See Connect to Jupyter VMs to connect to the Jupyterlab interface.

Bigmem / Manycores flavors

  • bigmem-* flavors may be unavailable if too many VMs are deployed. The infrastructure currently supports a total of 4TB RAM, it means that if 2 VMs with 2TB are deployed, the flavor will be unavailable for other VMs (you will get an error No valid host was found).

  • manycores.255c496g flavor may be unavailable if too many VMs are deployed. Only 2 VMs with 255 cores can run simultaneously, all projects combined. If you try to deploy a VM with the manycores.255c496g flavor , you will get an error No valid host was found.

About data

  • on *-base VMs, only local data is available.

  • on *-psmn VMs, your PSMN /home is mounted and so are your /Xnfs directories. A local working directory is available under /localdata.

Attention

When you destroy a VM, ALL local data is LOST.

Hint

All images provide a bunch of common packages, including python and docker. ubuntu24-desktop-imaging-* images come with pre-installed bio-imaging software, such as Fiji, Omero Insight, MorphoGraphX and more. You can find them in the main menu, in the Bioimaging category.

Hint

If you need custom image or flavor you can submit a demand with this form