Infrastructures
Our department is equipped with state-of-the-art research equipment. This equipment is available for investigators within the department, within the CHUV and can also be accessed by external researchers on specific conditions.
- 3T high-performance magnetic resonance scanner (Magnetom Prisma, Siemens Heathineers) – available for research every afternoon
- 0.55T high-performance low-field MRI scanner (Magnetom Free.Max, Siemens Healthineers) – available all day, every day
- MRI accessories
- Injector pump, with the CIBM
- ISMRM-NIST quantitative MR phantom
- Small animal RF coil and monitoring system
- Moving phantom for accurately simulating motion
- Carotid RF coils, 1H and 19F
- External physiological monitoring unit
- Projector, screen, and mirrors for visual fMRI
- fMRI hardware: in-ear system for auditory stimulation, microphone with noise cancellation; input devices: 4X2 buttons, trackball, pad for finger tapping, joystick, eye-tracking, syncbox, goggles with integrated eye-tracking camera
- Three dedicated high-end image reconstruction workstations
- 3 high-density EEG laboratories (among which one is mobile)
- 1 TMS laboratory
- 1 psychophysics laboratory with eye-tracking, motion-tracking, VR/AR headsets
Compute and storage for research
CHUV cluster (running costs covered by department)
- HPC GPU node 1 : 2x Intel Xeon Gold 6148 CPU (40 cores), 1TB RAM, with 4x Nvidia RTX2080, 1x Nvidia V100 (reserved for radiology department)
- HPC GPU node 2: 2x AMD Epyc 7742 CPU (128 cores), 2 TB RAM, with 2x Nvidia rtx3090 (reserved for radiology department)
- HPC CPU nodes (12 available, total 192 cores): each 2x Xeon E5-2650 v2 CPU (16 cores), 128 GB RAM (available for whole hospital)
- Storage : shared storage 3 TB + per-group SSD storage + connection to UNIL storage
University of Lausanne cluster (running costs covered by each user’s project)
- HPC CPU nodes (16 available, total 768 cores) : 2x AMD Epyc3 7443 CPU (48 cores), 1 TB RAM
- HPC GPU nodes (2 available) : each 2x AMD Epyc3 7443 CPU (48 cores), 1 TB RAM, 2x Nvidia A100
- Storage 1 PB, low cost
Both clusters are authorized for use with sensitive data, and use the Slurm workload management system.
Clinical equipment that can be used for research upon special arrangement
- CT scanners:
- 4 dual-energy CT scanners
- 1 EOS imaging system
- MRI scanners:
- 7 3T MRI scanner
- 1 1.5T MRI scanner
- Ultrasound:
- Over 20 ultrasound machines for diagnostic, and interventional purposes.