ARCC Cluster Computing

 

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.  

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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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.

 

Frequently Referenced Documentation

Medicinebow: Start Using an ARCC HPC (Most straightforward workflow and methods)

 

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.