CORE

CORE is a core facility of LMU Klinikum and a valuable resource for accelerating medical research, providing researchers from within LMU Klinikum with the computational tools needed to drive innovation and advance healthcare.

To efficiently distribute the computing resources among the clinics and working groups of LMU Klinikum involved in compute-heavy research, CORE uses a scheduling software called Slurm. Slurm is a specialized, well-established HPC tool and ensures that computing workloads are scheduled on the hardware in a fair and efficient manner to maximize the utilization of the compute servers. Various Slurm partitions allow to efficiently distribute the resources to GPU- and CPU-only-jobs and to accommodate jobs of different run times from quick prototyping to week-long deep-learning training. Up to eight modern GPUs within one node enable data-distributed parallel training runs. The container engine singularity (apptainer) allows users to package and ship their own libraries and computing environments on CORE.

All documentation lives in a GitLab repository - and this enables user participation in a very straightforward way. Whenever you find bugs, typos, or want to extend the documentation with a tutorial, an example or anything else, you can contribute your content with a merge request.

On a regular basis introductory hands-on work<shops are hosted by the team of CORE, to equip users with the skills and knowledge to run their code on the CORE computing cluster. Target audience of the workshop are researchers comfortable running their programs on the commandline, previous experience of working on HPC environments are not needed. The workshop is open to everyone interested, access rights to CORE are necessary for participation and the registration by email required. Please contact core.support@med.uni-muenchen.de to register or to be placed on the waiting list for the next workshop.

Our workshops are scheduled on demand, please let us know if you are interested. Workshops are also announced on the CORE mailing list.

Past workshops took place:

• March 22
• March 23
• October 23
• April 24
• November 24

Once you have access to the documentation, you'll also be able to consult the most recent workshop slides:

https://core.pages.gitlab.lrz.de/core-slides/

The governance of the CORE core facility is determined by the Nutzungsordnung and comprises a steering committee and a user board.

The technical administration team meets in a regular jour fixe, optimizes and adjusts infrastructure, and ensures day-to-day administration and maintenance.

Team members:

• Gabriel Lindner, Stabsstelle digitale Medizin
• Dr. Balthasar Schachtner, MIT
• Simon Leutner, MIT
• Prof. Dr. Michael Ingrisch, Group leader Clinical Data Science, Department of Radiology

List of publications that have benefited from CORE: