HPC@UC
Providing UC researchers access to SDSC’s high-performance computing resources and expertise.
This program is offered in partnership with the University of California Vice Chancellors of Research as well as campus Chief Information Officers. Awards under this program are intended to help UC researchers who are new to high-performance computing expand their overall research program.
Specifically, this program is designed to:
- Broaden the base of UC researchers who use advanced computing
- Provide an on-ramp to UC researchers who are just getting started with high-performance computing by giving them access to cyberinfrastructure that complements what is available at their campus
- Seed promising computational research
- Facilitate collaborations between SDSC and UC researchers
- Help UC researchers be successful when pursuing larger allocation requests through NSF’s Advanced Cyberinfrastructure Coordination Ecosystem: Services & Support (ACCESS) program, and other national computing programs.
RESOURCES AVAILABLE
- Advanced Computing Resources: Expanse is a 5+ PFlop/s system featuring 728 nodes, each with two 64-core AMD EPYC 7742 processors, 256 GB memory; and 4 large memory nodes, each with two 64 core AMD EPYC 7742 processors and 2 TB of memory; 52 GPU nodes including 36 NVIDIA V100 GPU Nodes; each has 4 GPUs/node. Learn more about SDSC's HPC resources.
- Data Resources: Over 12 PB of high-speed storage made available via Lustre parallel file systems, as either short term Performance Storage used for temporary files, or long term, non-purged Project Storage that persists for the life of the project. A Durable Storage resource provides a second copy of all data in Project Storage file system.
- Software Applications: A large installed base of applications for HPC and big data analytics.
- Expertise: SDSC staff have broad expertise in the application of advanced computing and stand ready to assist you in making the best use of these resources for your research.
Eligibility and Review
- Applications may request up to 500K core-hours of computing, associated data storage, and access to SDSC expertise to assist their research team. Awards are active for one year.
- Applicants must not have an active award in the NSF’s Advanced Cyberinfrastructure Coordination Ecosystem: Services & Support (ACCESS) program.
- The expectation is that these awards will lead to larger, formal allocation requests on national HPC systems that are available through the ACCESS program. SDSC staff will assist in developing these allocation applications.
- Applications are reviewed on an ongoing basis. Applicants will be notified within 10 business days of the review decision.
- Applicants must not have a previous HPC@UC award on Expanse.
To Apply
Trial Accounts on Expanse: Before submitting an allocation request to HPC@UC, you may want to consider requesting a Trial Account on SDSC’s Expanse system. These are allocations for 1000 core-hours and are intended for very quick assessment of Expanse to see if it meets your needs. These requests are fulfilled within 1 working day. You are eligible for an HPC@UC allocation even if you already have a Trial Account.
