ARCC Spring 2026 Newsletter
The ARCC team is hard at work setting up the AI4WY Cluster. The AI4WY project is short for the "Aquisition of an Advanced Infrastructure to Accelerate Impact of AI through Applications and Inovation for Wyoming". This project will acquire and configure a state-of-the-art high performance computing system to significantly advance the application and innovation of artificial intelligence and computational science across the University of WSyoming and the Rocky Mountain region. The project and new system facilitate groundbreaking research and education fostering collaboration among universities and expanding opportunities to serve the needs of all users including those from under-served instituions. This cluster will utilize a specialized HPC system featuring NVIDIA DGX GH200 Grace Hopper superchips, inteconnected with NVIDIA InfiniBand and NVLink and equipped with 400 TB of data storage.
The release AI for Wyoming Cluster is in progress, expected for summer, 2026.
The new infrastructure addresses critical computing challenges related to data movement, and energy consumption through the Grace Hopper architecture, which integrates high-bandwidth coherent data transfers between CPU and GPU. This project is also expected to germinate collaborative HPC research by serving researchers and educators at the University of Wyoming, Colorado State University, and the Rocky Mountain Advanced Computing Consortium (RMACC). Through this program the University of Wyoming and Colorado State University are actively establishing formal research and training collaborations to focus on inter-state research problems, including agriculture, public health, society, energy ,and tourism. A dedicated allocation of 15% of computing resources on the proposed instrumebnt to CSU research and treaining will promote these efforts. More broadly, AI4WY will also provdie a 10% resource allocation to the Rocky Mountain Advanced Comjmputing Consoritum (RMACC) giving access to 33 institutions in the West including some 45,000 academic staff, 160,000 graduates and 540,000 undergraduate students.
The newly formed CRST team is available and growing to help you with your code.
ARCC's newest team is CRST (which stands for the Computational Research Software Team). This team was formed specifically to help HPC users with specialty changes to their software or code on the cluster to achieve a specialized operation that is not available "out of the box".
The University of Wyoming has earned its Research Level 1 (R1) status from the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education, placing Wyoming's only four-year university with the top research universities in the United States.