The IDRIS User Committee

The role of the User Committee is to be a liaison for dialogue with IDRIS so that all the projects which received allocations of computer resources can be successfully conducted in the best possible conditions. The committee transmits the observations of all the users regarding the functionning of the centre and the issues are discussed with IDRIS in order to determine the appropriate changes to be made.

Ideally, the User Committee consists of 2 members elected from each scientific discipline who can be contacted at the following address:

The mandate of part of the user committee has expired and we have organized elections for its partial renewal.

19 positions were to be renewed: 1 CT1, 1 CT2a, 2 CT2b, 2 CT3, 1 CT4, 2 CT5, 2 CT6, 2 CT7, 1 CT8, 2 CT9, and 3 CT10.

At the end of the application period (May 13, 2025) for the partial election of the IDRIS User Committee, 9 candidacies were received for 19 positions to be filled.

According to the committee's statutes, since the number of candidates is less than the number of positions to be filled, all candidates are declared elected.

The composition of the new user committee is therefore as follows:

• CT1 : P. Wautelet, S. Nguyen , R. Pennel
• CT2a : A. Cadiou
• CT2b : Pas de représentant
• CT3 : Pas de représentant
• CT4 : L. Combe, A. Miniussi
• CT5 : S. Zafeiropoulos
• CT6 : S. Abide
• CT7 : F. Barbault
• CT8 : R. Sinha-Roy, MB. Lepetit
• CT9 : Th. Niehaus
• CT10 : G. Franchi, Th. Moreau, J. Arslan

A working group is in place since two years. It includes the head of the PPST department (Protection du Potentiel Scientifique et Technique) of the FSD (Fonctionnaire Sécurité Défense), three people from IDRIS including the director, and user representatives:

• Marie-Bernadette.Lepetit@neel.cnrs.fr ; Tel 04.76.88.90.45
• Alain.Miniussi@oca.eu Tel : +33 4 92 00 30 09 / +33 4 83 61 85 44

For years, users have been requesting that only one FSD authorization request be required for all three national computing centers and that the response be valid for all three centers.

This request has been accepted in principle for a long time, but is still only partially implemented. This group is working to have it implemented as quickly as possible. We invite anyone for whom this does not work (automatic propagation without having to resubmit requests) to contact the chair of the User Committee (Marie-Bernadette.Lepetit@neel.cnrs.fr ; Tel 04.76.88.90.45).

The members of the User Committee participating in the working group will also take on the role of PPST correspondents:

• Advice on FSD request procedures
• Answering common user questions
• Relaying issues encountered with FSD instances
• Providing users with information on the procedures to be accepted into data centers.

The next meeting of the IDRIS Users Committee will take place on 2025, 18th of December.
Please send us your comments, questions, and suggestions before Friday, December 12 at .

The User Committee pages are available to IDRIS users by connecting to the IDRIS Extranet, section: Comité des utilisateurs.

In this space are found the reports on IDRIS machine exploitation as well as the latest meeting minutes.