Condenser¶

Condenser is a private cloud platform for UCL. Based on traditional High-Performance Computing (HPC) hardware, the platform uses virtualisation and containerisation technologies to support a variety of services, from web applications to HPC clusters and Trusted Research Environments (TREs). Condenser is designed to enable cost-effective, cloud-native research computing at UCL.

Condenser is developed and maintained by the Environments team within the Advanced Research Computing Centre. Users can refer to our Documentation for developers for advice about deploying virtual resources on Condenser.

Support¶

Please use the following links to request support or make queries about Condenser. Before requesting a quote, please read the Guidance for Prospective Users and the Terms and Conditions of Use.

• Request a quote
• Request a new tenant
• Request a change to your tenant
• Request general support for a tenant, including bug reports and security queries
• All other queries

Feature suggestions¶

The Environments team is happy to discuss suggestions for new features or changes to features on Condenser. Please join the Condenser User Group to discuss these ideas with us; the User Group meets biweekly on Thursdays at 11:00 over Teams. You can also submit suggestions through MyServices.

By the numbers¶

Condenser comprises a large pool of computing resources, including:

• 8160 cores
• 85TB RAM
• 25 GbE interconnect
• A100, H100, and H200 GPUs

Technology stack¶

Condenser is developed using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) methodologies. Some of the technologies used to build the platform are: