Triton Shared Computing Cluster
Affordable Computing
Triton Shared Computing Cluster (TSCC) provides advanced computing resources and services to support the needs of the UC San Diego research community. In addition, researchers from other academic institutions and industries can also participate in this research computing program. The TSCC operates on two different computing models – Condo (a system purchase model) and Hotel (a pay-as-you-go model) to support a broad range of research computing workloads including traditional HPC, HTC, and emerging big data pipelines.
Features and Benefits
- Access to a much greater number of nodes than purchased
- Many installed software packages, or install your own
- Access to research and user communities who share tips and information
- Collaboration opportunities with SDSC cyberinfrastructure experts
- Housed in a secure, climate-controlled, energy-efficient data center
- Compute nodes professionally administered
- Non-competitive proposal system
- Shorter average wait times than national systems
Partnership in Research
TSCC strives to provide an excellent user experience and support for our academic and industry researchers in their computational work. Our technical staff members offer onboarding sessions, training workshops as well as remote consultations.
Collaboration opportunities
In addition to providing general user support, TSCC offers collaborative partnerships with research teams that require ongoing customized support for their projects, including:
- Designing end-to-end solutions for specific computational and data pipelines
- Performance optimization and tuning of applications
- Science gateway portal development
- Workflow automation
- GPU computing
- Data management
- Interactive applications such as Jupyter notebook and machine learning.
SDSC staff members have dual expertise in cyberinfrastructure and domain science (Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Engineering, etc.) and have prior experience collaborating with UC faculty as co-PIs, senior personnel or programmers in their NSF, NIH and other agency-funded grants.
Grant support
We assist researchers seeking funding from agencies. TSCC can help with the grant proposal process by providing:
- Letters of support to researchers who will use TSCC resources in their research projects
- Hardware quotes from vendors
- Facilities document to be included in the proposal.
To discuss including letters of support, expertise, or hardware quotes for your grant, please contact us at TSCC Info.
Free Trial
For a free trial, email TSCC User Support and provide your:
- Name
- Contact Information
- Department
- Academic Institution or Industry
- Affiliation (grad student, post-doc, faculty, etc.)
- Brief description of your research and any software applications you plan to use
Note: New users will require a UCSD Active Directory (AD) username, or will need to provide a public key (emailed as an attached file) for secure login.
Trial accounts are 250 core-hours valid for 90 days.