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The NIG Supercomputer

The National Institute of Genetics (NIG) provides state-of-the-art supercomputer system services equipped with large-scale clustered computers, large-scale memory-sharing computers, and large-capacity high-speed disk drives as a computational infrastructure for life and medical research.

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Due to disk space constraints, we do not back up the data in the user home directory. It is the responsibility of the user to back up the data in their own computing environment.

Information about applications for renewing accounts at the end of the financial year​

As in previous years, we are accepting application for renewing accounts at the end of the financial year. Please be careful that after 30 June, your home directory will be deleted.

  • From 4 January, applying for a renewal of your account of the end of the currnt fiscal year will be accepted. You should submit your end-of-year account renewal application by 31 March.

  • If you have not applied to renew your end-of-year account by 31 March, you will not be able to log in from 1 April.

    • You can still apply to renew your end-of-year account after 1 April. After applying, you will be able to log in again.
    • The current application system for end-of-year account renewal does not allow you to log into this system when your account is suspended. If you would like to apply for an end-of-year account renewal, contact us here.

  • After 30 June, your home directory will be deleted.

    • After 30 June, you can still apply to renew your end-of-year account, but all your data will be deleted. Please note that.

Announcement of replacement to the next NIG supercomputer system​

At the end of FY2024, it will be replaced by the next NIG supercomputer system. The current NIG supercomputer is contracted until 28 February 2025. The next NIG supercomputer is scheduled to start operation on 1 March 2025. As a result of the replacement, the NIG supercomputer is expected to be unavailable for a period of about one week in the second half of 2025 February. Further details will be announced around end of November 2024 after the opening of the tender.

Scheduled for FY 2024​

The scheduled maintenance for FY2024 will be performed from December 13 - December 19 2024.

The following will be implemented as usual.

May 13, 2022(Friday) - Suspend acceptance of application for new use for the personal genome analysis division and large-scale storage on the general analysis division​

Thank you very much for using the NIG supercomputer.

Due to the computing resources of CPU and Disk are current very tight, we suspend application for new use for the following users.

  • Application for new use using large-scale for the general analysis division
  • Application for new use of personal genome analysis division users

The following applications will be accepted as before.

  • For current alreay large-scale users for the general analysis division and the personal genome analysis division users, we will continue to accept additions of resources to chang the usage plan table as before.
  • Regular user registration for the general analysis division will also be accepted as before. In this case, the disk memory will be limited to the default setting of 1TB.
  • For using of the service for workshops, etc.

Thank you for your understanding that we may not be able to meet your request in such cases.

The timing for resuming application for new use will be decided by checking the availability of computer resources. The availability forecast for each 4 month period will be posted on the website as needed. When you plan to use it, refer to the outlook for availability and submit your usage plan in advance. However, please note that availability is not guaranteed and we may not be able to meet your request.

About Acknowledgements​

The activities of the NIG Supercomputer System are evaluated by your acknowledgments. If your paper using our supercomputer system is accepted, please write your acknowledgments by referring to the following example.

Example

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　　Computations were partially performed on the NIG supercomputer
　　at ROIS National Institute of Genetics.

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