Environment Differences
The Ontario Health Data Platform (OHDP) is a federated high-performance computing environment consisting of two environments, OHDP-I and OHDP-Q.
In addition to supporting different types of research, the environments also have other distinctions. These are outlined in the table below.
| Features | ||
|---|---|---|
| Supported Data Modalities | ||
| COVID-19 Test Results Data | ||
| Health Administrative Data | ||
| Social Data | ||
| Census/Survey Data | ||
| Clinical Data | ||
| Data Assets | ||
| See links for a full list of available data assets | ||
| Ethics / Privacy Considerations | ||
| REB Approval Required (PHIPA Section 44) | ||
| ICES Agent Agreement Required (PHIPA Section 45) | ||
| Platform Access | ||
| Access to Analytic Virtual Environment channel via Citrix | ||
| Access to workspace via Remote Desktop | ||
| Ingress | ||
| Supports ingress of external data | ||
| Supports frequent automated ingress (for ancillary data, code, etc.) | ||
| Software / Tools | ||
| GitLab (to collaborate on code within the workspace) | ||
| R | ||
| Python (Anaconda) | ||
| Jupyter Notebook | ||
| TensorFlow | ||
| CUDA | ||
| Support for custom tools/software | ||
| Technical Resources | ||
| Project specific CPU core allocation | ||
| Project specific GPU core allocation | ||
| Linux via Terminal | ||
| Linux via Graphical User Interface (xRDP) | ||
| Copy and paste functionality (within the workspace) | ||
| Horizontally expandable data storage | ||
| GPU Grid (SLURM) | ||
| Additional Resources | ||
| ICES Staff Scientist support | ||
| Administrative data management support | ||
| Complex data management support | ||