Accessible platforms in Toulouse
Our research demands access to high-end equipment. Fortunately, Toulouse has a lot of scientific platforms full of very competent engineers.
Here are a few we work with regularly:
CALMIP is a mesocentre for high performance computing that contains the EOS supercomputer (ranked 183rd in the world when it was installed in 2014).
TRI-Genotoul (TRI stands for Toulouse Réseau Imagerie i.e. Toulouse Network Imaging) is a group of platforms gathering all the techniques necessary to research dealing with living organisms.
It includes electronic (MEB, MET, tomography, cryo-methods, data analysis) or photon microscopy (SPIM & macro-SPIM, superresolution, confocal, multiphoton, macroscope, TIRF), cytometry and even atomic force microscopy.
Renatech LAAS has several platforms, including one for micro and nantechnologies (1500 m2 of clean room, with engineers and technicians), notably soft lithography for microfluidics.
The LAAS has also just set up a high-end 3D printing platform.