UW HPC Resources

HPC Resources for UW Researchers

 

ARCC hosts, maintains and supports in-house HPC resources for use by the UW research community and collaborators.  Our main computational cluster is named Medicinebow and was released to campus Summer 2024.   UW leadership has also facilitated access to external HPC resources for UWYO Researchers.    

Below is an overview of the main HPC options available to UW Researchers.

If you are just starting out, our team can assist you in getting up to speed using our HPC resources.  We recommend prospective users follow the directions here to get access to ARCC Cluster Computing to get an account and start using our cluster resources.  

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On-Prem Cluster Computing: Medicinebow

  

Medicinebow Mountain Range

 

 

About Medicinebow

Medicinebow is ARCC's primary on-premises cluster housed at the UW Information Technology Data Center on the University of Wyoming Campus in Laramie WY.  Medicinebow is a heterogeneous cluster with a number of several specialty partitions designed to meet the UW Research Community's emerging needs for simulation, data analysis, and artificial intelligence, as well as more traditional high-performance computation tasks.  Effective upon go-live (Summer, 2024), MedicineBow will be securely accessible anywhere, anytime over the web using MedicineBow OnDemand, or over SSH with a ssh key and certificate for authentication.

 

Learn more about Medicinebow, UW's on-prem computing cluster, here.

  

 

  

New Hardware on Medicinebow

Storage: Medicinebow uses the VAST data filesystem configured with over 3 petabytes of NVMe storage, including advanced block-based data deduplication expected to provide over 6PB of overall research data storage capcity.  

Compute Nodes:  Medicinebow adds 25 new 2x 48-core/96-thread 4th Gen AMD EPYC 9454 nodes to the existing 300 heterogeneous nodes from our Beartooth cluster.  

GPU Nodes: Medicinebow includes the integration of several specialty GPU nodes including 8 x H100, 8 x L40S, and 8 x A30 GPUs available for researchers to leverage powerful GPU hardware towards deep learning, complex modeling, or otherwise intensive miscellaneous tasks.  More detailed information about Medicinebow nodes is available on our Medicinebow Hardware Summary.

Improvements to infrastructure:  The Medicinebow cluster features several newer GPUs running intense computations.  ARCC has therefore installed more powerful infrastructure within the UW IT Data Center to maintain these nodes including liquid cooled racks and 1TBPS RoCEv2 networking.

  

 

 

External HPC Resources: Scaling up
  Growing resources

 

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Researchers planning to apply for external HPC resources may find it valuable to use UW ARCC’s Medicinebow cluster as an initial testing platform before moving to larger scale resources.  Contact us at arcc-help@uwyo.edu or fill out a request in our service portal if you would like to create an project allocation for testing on Medicinebow or if you think you may benefit from scaling out to a larger cluster.  
   
 

Available External HPC Resources for UW Researchers

 

Users can get more information by clicking the button to the left to learn more about the external HPC resources available to them.