Investing in ARCC

The Advanced Research Computing Center (ARCC) provides free HPC resources, discounted research data storage services, and technical support for all computational research workflows. Investing in ARCC helps provide these services to the broader research community at UW by supporting these and future projects.  All funds gained through investment are used solely for procurement of hardware and software licensing used to run ARCC services.

Researchers can invest with us by purchasing computational hardware, networking hardware, long term storage allocations, software licensing, or consultation/development personnel hours.

General Research Community’s Benefits of investments in ARCC: 

• Access to the 500+ node Teton HPC cluster 
• High performance networking
• Full systems support, this allows users to focus on their research without having to worry about running a system.
• Software support, ARCC can help install , test, and maintain research software to meet your needs
• Robust education, training, and documentation 
• Assistance with national resources such as XSEDE
• Investors also gain priority access through preemption

The ARCC team provides:

• General user support and training on cluster utilization.
• Consultation for projects currently beyond our scope
• Grant Proposal assistance - Develop technological needs, describe our facilities, etc. 
• Privacy and Security
• Data Management while partnering with UW Libraries 
• Systems administration support as well as software installation.
• Best effort desktop support (Windows/Mac/LINUX)
• Programming, debugging, parallelization and optimization support.
• Electrical power, (including uninterrupted power supply), machine room space, and cooling.
• Network capacity
• System software, clustering software.
• Prompt repairs.
• Local, temporary storage for use during computational run

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To inquire about potential investments please email the ARCC team at arcc-info@uwyo.edu.