High-performance computing has become essential to research across the Illinois campus. The Illinois Campus Cluster Program helps meet this campus-wide need for research computing cycles, with NCSA providing critical administration and support services.
Primary use cases:
- Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
- CPU & GPU batch-submission environment
- Approximately 1,500 users per academic year from all fields of research and instruction with computational uses
- Provides access to computing and data storage resources and frees you from the hassle of administering your own compute cluster
- Free for most users via Illinois Computes
Technical Specifications:
- Hundreds of compute nodes with and without GPUs
- Five Dell R6615 servers each with 48 cores/384GB memory act as hypervisors, running all core services as virtual machines. These include login nodes, data transfer nodes, provisioning nodes, and other critical infrastructure services.
- Shared home directories provided by the NCSA shared filesystem, Harbor.
- Shared project directories provided by NCSA shared filesystem, Taiga
- Four Dell R6615 servers are dedicated Lustre LNET routers
Help Desk is available from 7 a.m. to 11:30 p.m., seven days a week, 365 days a year.