Medicinebow: ARCCs Primary Cluster

On-Premises Cluster Computing

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 is securely accessible over the web using MedicineBow OnDemand, or over SSH with a ssh key and certificate for authentication.

 

Are you a candidate for cluster computing?  

 

  • Is your computer covered in post-it notes and threatening signs that say something along the lines of "RUNNING LONG PROCESS: DO NOT REBOOT"?
  • Are your datasets getting large enough that they are crashing your desktop computer?  
  • Does your analysis take an hour or so, but you need to run it hundreds of times?

 

Such situations can provide applicable use cases for moving your work to a computing cluster, and may save you significant time.  

Medicinebow Mountain Range Photo

Are you new to ARCC and HPC?

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.  

Request a Project

 

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.  

About Vast

Compute Nodes

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

Medicinebow Nodes

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.

Medicinebow Hardware Table

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.

About the UW IT Datacenter