National Computer Center for Higher Education (France)

CINES has three missions:[1] The National University Center for Computation (CNUSC) in Montpellier was established in 1981, responsible for hosting scientific apps for the research community, as well as applications in the field of librarianship.

In terms of storage, the Occident machine has a capacity of 5 petabytes (Po) of disks, utilizing the Luster file system.

The second national strategic mission assigned to CINES is the development and implementation of a powerful solution for long-term preservation of the digital heritage.

In addition to exceptional resources and equipment in the field of supercomputing, CINES has access to one of the largest French production platforms dedicated to archiving digital data.

To respond to some issues raised in the context of sustainable digital archiving, which are inevitable risks for which procedures must be put in place to mitigate their impact on the day they occur, CINES relies on the use of national and international standards as well as a quality approach using proactive management risks and an approach for the certification of the service.

The new mission of CINES is to provide support for the research community that needs space to help important computing environments operate.

The goal is to provide organizations lacking material space in the machine room with the possibility of increasing their capacity in the number of racks.