Services Overview

All faculty members, staff, students, and research collaborators are entitled to an HPC account¹.

This includes access to the High Performance Compute Cluster, our parallel file system (GPFS), and other standard RCC services. See below.

Standard Services

All accounts have access to the following services:

• General access Slurm accounts (partitions/queues)
• 150 GiB parallel HPC storage
• Access to a shared multi-terabyte general access scratch volume (upon request)
• Access to most² packages in our software catalog
• Software installation upon request
  • NOTE: Departments must provide licenses for commercial software
• Basic technical support for HPC commands, utilities, and software packages
• Basic technical consulting for developing research workflows using RCC resources

Additional Services

The below services are available for research groups who need dedicated access to the cluster or additional technical staff time.

Pricing information is on the pricing page.

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• Dedicated HPC Slurm scheduler accounts
  • Access to the newest compute nodes in the HPC cluster
  • Priority access to the HPC; jobs wait substantially less time in-queue
• Dedicated access to GPU nodes
• Dedicated storage volumes in our parallel or archival file systems
• Complex or highly customized software installation—refer to our consulting page for more information
• Custom software or script development—refer to our consulting page for more information

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1. Students, staff, and collaborators will need a faculty sponsor ↩

2. Paid commercial software may be available only to specific departments or groups. This will be noted on the documentation page ↩