Feedback from a data center for education at CentraleSupélec engineering school

Abstract

This paper describes the hardware and software architecture of the Data Center for Education (DCE) built up at CentraleSupélec as well as our educational objectives. Students experiment in the context of their studies with clusters of CPU and servers of GPU. They have different technical backgrounds from beginners to experts in computer science. The lectures have also different experimental requirements: from single host long running jobs for machine learning to multiple hosts short running HPC algorithms benchmarks, with lab works and projects that need to share the same pool of machines.